Well I am really cheesed off. My 16 yr old daughter goes to a boarding school in the UK ( a school for deaf children ), and when she has gone back after the Easter break her flute has gone missing. Now this school only has about 200 pupils from year 7-13 so wouldn't you think they would be able to find it!!! She left a couple of days early before they broke up as she flew out here to see us for the holiday and figured it would be safer leaving it in her room at school than risk losing it whilst flying. This flute happens to be my flute that my parents bought for me when I was about 11 (so it is rather old) and holds sentimental value as well as it being a damn good flute. I am just hoping that when we tell them that we will be reporting the theft to the police it will somehow mysteriously turn up.

Fingers crossed the flute turns up for your daughter - its not ultimately the vaule of materials, its the sentimental value of them.


good luck

It will probably turn up. Maybe your daughter can say to people that its missing and how sentimental it is to you and her, then more people may be willing to help her look for it.

hope it turns up soon...as the last poster said..its not the monetary value that matters.

Definitely go the police route - it puts alot of pressure on the school to get their act together. Otherwise next time it could be something with both sentimental and monetary value. The schools insurance policy I think might be affected by the number of reported thefts. I know for universitys the number of robberies does.

The last time she had something go missing it turned up once we said we had to report it as stolen to be able to claim on the insurance so I am hoping the same thing happens this time. The school only has about 30 students per year so I don't see how it can be difficult to find out who has taken it.