Absolutely fuuuuuuming!!!! (with school!) Have now calmed down ;-)

Quasar

looby75 wrote: »

lol but you would never do that because you are far to nice

Don't tempt the devil in me, looby.. :rotfl:

MrsTinks

Quasar - please be nice to other money savers...

suggestions about how someone spends their spare time isn't really appropriate for MSE I think...

Be nice everyone

Quasar

MrsTine wrote: »

Quasar - please be nice to other money savers...

suggestions about how someone spends their spare time isn't really appropriate for MSE I think...

Be nice everyone

LOL thanks.
It was more a suggestion on how to gain relevant experience before calling other people's children stupid and all that.

moggylover

MrsTine wrote: »

Sorry but I disagree with that... I worked very hard at school but I am just not gifted when it comes to sports - has nothing to do with not working for it. I and many of my peers were just not lucky to be gifted at sports no matter how much work we put into it.

I'm not saying they didn't work hard - being gifted is worth nothing if you don't work for it. I just don't see that the school should be paying the £2... (Still agreeing that they should definitely have informed the parents in plenty of time about the £2 charge and certainly shouldn't have been requesting the money from the children direct!)

Mrs Tine, you have my sympathy! I also had no eye to ball co-ordination and the timing and speed of a sloth on the sports field and was always last to be picked for any team (along with groans of "oh Miss! Not her!":rolleyes: ). However, a lot of the boys had absolutely no inborn "talent" for the game just agility and a determination to learn (and I have watched these boys grow and learn since the under 9's team so can attest to that) so a few pounds from the school kitty for something which the SCHOOL wants them to take part in, and which is part of the curriculum is certainly not something I think should be begrudged by other children. I think that stifling achievement in favour of those who do not achieve is a sad state of affairs.

In my own day I might have been useless at sports, but I was great on the debating team and also the spelling team and travelled free for inter-school competitions for this instead of sports.

There were also several art competitions in which children took part on behalf of the school at the schools cost, and many music competitions across the year with the choir or school orchestra travelling to them (just as there still are at my sons' school) so we are not talking of something new here.

I would also say that the reason schools have PTA groups is to raise funds for such extras should the money in the actual school funds not be available. I do know, however, from being on the school governors that funds for this sort of trip ARE supposed to be allocated to sports departments (from the LEA funds) normally as this is seen as an integral part of sports education.

looby75

looby-loo wrote: »

Raw nerve hit!

are you seriously trying to say you agree that if you can't hand money over to your kids at every demand you are a failure as parent?

moggylover

MrsTine wrote: »

Quasar - please be nice to other money savers...

suggestions about how someone spends their spare time isn't really appropriate for MSE I think...

Be nice everyone

How about a reminder to PBS as well? On second thoughts I can see why you don't bother: it would be wasted on a hide as thick as a rhino:D

moggylover

kahwilts wrote: »

HOW DARE YOU! You ignorant person. You should be absolutely disgraced, coming on these boards and making such pig ignorant comments.

What do you not get? Are you really that stupid? These boards are full of people who earn varying degrees of money. For some £2.00 is what they earn a second, for others it is the difference between feeding their kids and paying for heating!

For goodness sake, you should respect that what ever priveledges you may or may not have not everone is in the same position.

You should be put in the stocks!!!

Well said kahwilts! :T :T :T :T

ceridwen

shellsuit wrote: »

Why not ask parents first if they mind paying?

err...because its only £2.

....carrying on reading through the thread to see if there's an answer as to the point about the school "being represented" by a child...puzzled....as the child doing this is doing it of themselves...because they want to I would have thought...dont understand this concept of a school "being represented" by a child....

moggylover

Quasar wrote: »

PBS why don't you get laid (which sounds to me you badly need), then have a child to occupy you a bit more? I've noticed you log in here several times a day (all the way from glorious Poland) so that you can tell the Brits how dire their child rearing, education and blah ... are, and offer your simplistic and inexperienced advice.

Who knows, maybe you will even learn that being a parent is not such a day in, day out clear cut decision making business.

In case you haven't noticed, this is a MONEY SAVING SITE, ie a place where most users are in financial difficulties. Coming in here and telling them that £2 is nothing particularly when a child is expected to fork it out without prior warning, just shows profound ignorance and lack of common humanity. And you call shellsuit's son stupid?

Very well said Q - but remind me to stay on your good side:D

aimee21j

allIcouldwishfor wrote: »

Yes, because school mini buses run on fresh air, don't they?! :rolleyes:

I didn't say they did. I work for a school and they don't ask for money (not saying if it is right or wrong). It gets paid for out of the school budget.