# Kids keep losing their $350 beanies at school **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 13, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691 "2019-01-13T16:43:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/1 "2019-01-13T16:43:12Z")
A school on Long Island has asked students to not wear their Moncler Winter Pom Pom hats because the school is wasting too much time looking for the hats. Three Fifty? Hey, when I was their age I was happy to get by with a $79 Tommy Hilfiger hat. Kids. Dennis > **[School urges rich kids to stop wearing — and losing — $350 beanies](https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-school-urges-students-to-stop-wearing-and-losing-350-beanies)** > > Hats off! That’s what a middle school on the tony North Shore of Long Island is telling parents after students have been losing $350 headware from trendy brand Moncler. Admins at Great Neck North M… ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/2 "2019-01-13T16:57:32Z")
That’s not a “beanie”. Those are touques! Jughead wears a beanie (in the comics, at least). ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/3 "2019-01-13T16:57:35Z")
In my day it was Air Jordans and Starter jackets. Both expensive (I want to say about $200, in the early 90’s) and both getting stolen, sometimes violently. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/4 "2019-01-13T17:04:33Z")
But seriously. when you are wearing your [Moncler coat](https://www.barneys.com/product/1-moncler-pierpaolo-piccioli-lucrezia-down-quilted-puffer-cape-505971638.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=Product-Type-womens-coats&utm_keyword=PRODUCT_GROUP&utm_campaign=BNY-PLA-US-GGL-NB-Product-Type_RMK&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3tP-1Z3r3wIVVLnACh3TegktEAQYASABEgK9ffD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds), you’ve got to have the coordinating beanie. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/5 "2019-01-13T17:12:34Z")
Dadburn whippersnappers! Back in MY day\*… We stopped by the Saint Vinnie’s or the Goodwill and found a perfectly good touque for tree-fitty (that’s tree-fitty dollar, not hundies). And we’d pick up a pair o’ dungarees for five-fitty. Bam, all set to walk uphill to school. \*oh, wait, that was last Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/6 "2019-01-13T17:21:20Z")
When I was in high school, I was fine with a $2 ‘Navy watch cap’. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/7 "2019-01-13T17:40:54Z")
How much are they with the propeller? ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/8 "2019-01-13T18:34:02Z")
Leaving the kids, the school and the teachers out of it for a moment, what kind of parent thinks a child should have a $350 hat? If I was a teacher I wouldn’t spend one second looking for them. Kids lose hats, mits, scarves, school bags, etc, etc. You wanna come by and look? Knock yourself out! The school closes at six, Good Luck! ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/9 "2019-01-13T18:39:27Z")
Can’t they just tell parents that school staff are not responsible for things kids lose in school, and will not waste time looking for them? ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/10 "2019-01-13T18:42:24Z")
Why is the school spending staff time looking? “Search Lost and Found. It ain’t there kid you are out of luck.” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/11 "2019-01-13T18:46:31Z")
> [@Alley\_Dweller](#): > > But seriously. when you are wearing your [Moncler coat](https://www.barneys.com/product/1-moncler-pierpaolo-piccioli-lucrezia-down-quilted-puffer-cape-505971638.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=Product-Type-womens-coats&utm_keyword=PRODUCT_GROUP&utm_campaign=BNY-PLA-US-GGL-NB-Product-Type_RMK&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3tP-1Z3r3wIVVLnACh3TegktEAQYASABEgK9ffD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds), you’ve got to have the coordinating beanie. Back in my day, we called that a “sleeping bag”. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/12 "2019-01-13T18:48:32Z")
Ho----ly crap. I’m dumb but I ain’t stupid. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/13 "2019-01-13T18:52:58Z")
From the link. > [@](#): > > That’s what a middle school on the **tony North Shore** of Long Island is telling parents after students have been losing $350 headware from **trendy brand** Moncler. > \*\* > “We understand that fashion is very important to our middle schoolers,\*\*” administrators wrote in a letter obtained by The Post. “However, we have had many students who have worn their Moncler Winter Pom Pom hats to school, and either lost or misplaced them. Spoiled brat parents are the problem here. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/14 "2019-01-13T19:37:21Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > From the link. > > Spoiled brat parents are the problem here. I hate to be the guy insulting other parents or insulting kids’ choices, but…yeah. Pretty much. Conspicuous consumption is a blight, but it really irks me more when the expensive garments are something you could get for so, so, so much cheaper just without a “prestigious” logo. The only real excuses for the existence of luxury goods is that they allow companies to push the boundaries of quality and design in ways that might eventually find a home in standard products, fill a specific-need niche, or at least provide some entertainment and amusement for us plebs when we see 'em. This is just a generic hat, yo. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/15 "2019-01-13T19:39:13Z")
> [@Alley\_Dweller](#): > > But seriously. when you are wearing your [Moncler coat](https://www.barneys.com/product/1-moncler-pierpaolo-piccioli-lucrezia-down-quilted-puffer-cape-505971638.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=Product-Type-womens-coats&utm_keyword=PRODUCT_GROUP&utm_campaign=BNY-PLA-US-GGL-NB-Product-Type_RMK&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3tP-1Z3r3wIVVLnACh3TegktEAQYASABEgK9ffD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds), you’ve got to have the coordinating beanie. What kind of many-armed monstrosity is going to emerge from THAT cocoon in spring? When culture-vultures of the 2030’s are picking apart the 20-teens on whatever embedded brain chips we’ll have in place of an Internet at that point - that image right there is going to be Exhibit A in “Weird shit your parents wore” ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/16 "2019-01-13T19:50:50Z")
Back when I was a tot we had to make hats out of newspaper! Kept the snow off just fine when we walked 6 miles to school and then had to stoke the fire! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/17 "2019-01-13T19:59:32Z")
I bought the lil’wrekker a ‘Neff’ beanie and paid $20 or so for it. I thought that was extravagant. I hope she doesn’t hear about these ones. ETA, beanie is what all the kids call 'em. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/18 "2019-01-13T20:12:33Z")
I’m a retired school teacher. If a pupil lost their work, their tutor would send out an e-mail to all staff asking them to look for it. For an item of clothing, we’d expect the pupil to have labelled it. As for spoiled brat parents, here’s a true story. A male pupil turned 18 and their parents bought them a sports car - for about $90,000. (Apparently, due to the boy’s age and inexperience, the insurance company put an excess of $80,000 on any claim.) Within a month, the boy wrote the car off (fortunately nobody was hurt.) So that cost the parents $80,000. And they promptly bought him a replacement. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/19 "2019-01-13T21:25:11Z")
> [@Alley\_Dweller](#): > > But seriously. when you are wearing your [Moncler coat](https://www.barneys.com/product/1-moncler-pierpaolo-piccioli-lucrezia-down-quilted-puffer-cape-505971638.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=Product-Type-womens-coats&utm_keyword=PRODUCT_GROUP&utm_campaign=BNY-PLA-US-GGL-NB-Product-Type_RMK&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3tP-1Z3r3wIVVLnACh3TegktEAQYASABEgK9ffD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds), you’ve got to have the coordinating beanie. Or the coordinating sucker plunger and gunstick… “Exterminate! Exterminate!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691/20 "2019-01-13T21:35:15Z")
We weren’t even _allowed_ to wear hats when I was in school. Hats is gang signs, you know. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-keep-losing-their-350-beanies-at-school/827691.md?page=2)