Wednesday when Kris and the girls got home from Ali’s Brownie meeting, Ali was pouting, and I asked what was wrong. Kris says “Do you want to tell daddy?” I knew that something bad was coming. Apparently Ali lost her Brownie vest. How that happened I’ll never figure out. The last class of the day was computer lab, and when she left her classroom her vest was on the back of her chair in her classroom. When she got back from computer lab, the vest was gone. She says she knows she didn’t take it with her, and no one was in her classroom (or supposed to be) while they were in computer lab. So what happened to it is a mystery.
It isn’t so much that the vest is lost, but I wonder why she wasn’t wearing her vest in the first place. If she wears her vest to school, I think she should keep it on, not take it off until the end of the day. If that were the case, I would rather she just keep it stuffed in her backpack until the end of the day, or have Kris bring it with to their meetings. Plus, there were so many patches and badges that were special, one-time, things that we can’t replace. The “value” of her vest at this point is probably in the neighborhood of $200 (probably even more - that’s just the badges and patches that we know we can replace) so it isn’t like it’s something that we can just get a replacement for overnight, plus all the time spent sewing the badges on...
We are hoping that someone decided to “play a trick” on her by hiding it, or that someone accidentally took it home. If it was on her coat hook in the back of the classroom it isn’t a far-fetched idea that it ended up falling into someone’s backpack unknowingly.
Tomorrow we have teacher conferences, so we won’t have a chance to look then, but hopefully Friday we’ll be able to see if turns up.
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