Oy VEY: More lost and found stuff

Today, after all the trauma of the past month over the lost and found issue,
I got my bimonthly newsletter from my DD's middle school, and what should be
smack dab in the middle of it, from the principal himself?

"Our Lost and Found in the cafeteria is overflowing with articles of
clothing. We will be putting these things out for students to retrieve in
the next two weeks leading up to the February break. Any items not picked
up will be donated to charity. "

And people wonder why I'm constantly hitting my forehead in disgust. If a
man in his late 40's can't learn, how does he expect the kids to learn?

"animzmirot" wrote in message
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Today, after all the trauma of the past month over the lost and found
issue,
I got my bimonthly newsletter from my DD's middle school, and what should
be
smack dab in the middle of it, from the principal himself?

"Our Lost and Found in the cafeteria is overflowing with articles of
clothing. We will be putting these things out for students to retrieve
in
the next two weeks leading up to the February break. Any items not
picked
up will be donated to charity. "

And people wonder why I'm constantly hitting my forehead in disgust. If a
man in his late 40's can't learn, how does he expect the kids to learn?

But this is substantially different from before. He isn't offering to let
students take what they want. He's asking them to "retrieve" items.
Retrieve means to get something back, to regain what you had. In other
words, he's only warning students that they need to get their own stuff out
or it will be donated to charity.

What he should have done in the first place , IMHO.

Bizby

"animzmirot" wrote in message
"Our Lost and Found in the cafeteria is overflowing with articles of
clothing. We will be putting these things out for students to retrieve
in
the next two weeks leading up to the February break. Any items not
picked
up will be donated to charity. "

And people wonder why I'm constantly hitting my forehead in disgust. If a
man in his late 40's can't learn, how does he expect the kids to learn?

But this is what our school does and I don't understand what the problem is.
He is not telling them to take what is not theirs like what was previously
thought. He is saying retrieve your items or they will be donated. I see no
problem with this at all.
--
Sue (mom to three girls)

"Sue" wrote in message
news
"animzmirot" wrote in message
"Our Lost and Found in the cafeteria is overflowing with articles of
clothing. We will be putting these things out for students to retrieve
in
the next two weeks leading up to the February break. Any items not
picked
up will be donated to charity. "

And people wonder why I'm constantly hitting my forehead in disgust. If a
man in his late 40's can't learn, how does he expect the kids to learn?

But this is what our school does and I don't understand what the problem
is.
He is not telling them to take what is not theirs like what was previously
thought. He is saying retrieve your items or they will be donated. I see
no
problem with this at all.
--
Sue (mom to three girls)

And, as a matter of fact, since animzmirot seems to feel that this is the
same thing that was said before, I begin to question anew whether the
students were *ever* told to take things which were not theirs. It would
make it easier to understand then why the kids were accused of stealing.

Bizby

In article , bizby40 says...


"Sue" wrote in message
news
"animzmirot" wrote in message
"Our Lost and Found in the cafeteria is overflowing with articles of
clothing. We will be putting these things out for students to retrieve
in
the next two weeks leading up to the February break. Any items not
picked
up will be donated to charity. "

And people wonder why I'm constantly hitting my forehead in disgust. If a
man in his late 40's can't learn, how does he expect the kids to learn?

But this is what our school does and I don't understand what the problem
is.
He is not telling them to take what is not theirs like what was previously
thought. He is saying retrieve your items or they will be donated. I see
no
problem with this at all.
--
Sue (mom to three girls)

And, as a matter of fact, since animzmirot seems to feel that this is the
same thing that was said before, I begin to question anew whether the
students were *ever* told to take things which were not theirs. It would
make it easier to understand then why the kids were accused of stealing.

Bizby



Indeed. All we were ever quoted was 'take take take'.

Banty