Non Uniform days raising school funds

achtunglady

~daisy~ wrote: »

my sons school had a wear blue day to support anti bullying week today and it was free - think a possibly more worthy cause imo

My daughters school did the same but asked for a 20p donation from staff and pupils, to be donated to the antibullying alliance.

webitha

my kids school did nothing for CIN nor any other charity todays, it was a normal school day with unitforms, nothing laid on no non uniform day, nothing, and they call themselves a church school ha

BillTrac

I don't know if things vary between say schools in less affluent areas or not.

My wife works in a school and it seems they have too much money. By the way it is school that is aided by the Catholic Church.

But even then the kids have to pay a "building" fee each term.

Makes you wonder just exactly where my/your taxes go.

zippybungle

I don't mind dress down days etc, it's a bit of fun for the Kids and the majority of these type of events at School are Voluntary, and hopefully it teaches Kids to think of others and is sometimes educational.

Today the Kids at my Sons School were dressed in blue (well, apart from my Boys who wore Uniform as I didn't get a letter home about it! lol). Apparently this was something to do with anti bullying day

My son asked for some money to buy a Poppy from School the other week, and it brought the subject up of why we buy Poppies. We also did a Christmas Shoe Box a while ago, and it brought the discussion up about how some Children don't have toys for Christmas etc and how about Christmas is supposed to be about giving and not just receiving. In December my youngest son is given a Christingle collection Box from Nursery which we fill up with 1p's and 2p's and the money is then given to the Childrens Society.....as I said before, all these things are voluntary, but in my opinion very worthwhile.

Zippy x

tandraig

while i agree that kids should learn about charity - this emotional blackmail by schools on Children in Need day - Jeans for Genes etc shouldnt be allowed in my opinion. the bringing in of money is now almost compulsory..and a previous poster is right - some schools divert a percentage of the money to school funds!
I think its awful how parents are bullied to contribute to charity - it should be done as a charitable act - not because you have too.

candygirl

webitha wrote: »

my kids school did nothing for CIN nor any other charity todays, it was a normal school day with unitforms, nothing laid on no non uniform day, nothing, and they call themselves a church school ha

Maybe they couldn't be arsed hun;):rotfl::rotfl:

shazrobo

my sons schools didnt have a non uniform day, as they never wear uniform anyway, instead, they were selling bacon butties, and buns, all proceeds going to CIN

Janepig

Well DD and DS's school had an own clothes day today, or they could dress up as a tv or film character for £1 for CiN. Nothing happens if you go in own clothes and don't cough up though. There's no emotional blackmail or bullying !!!!!!. And it's the first time this term I've had to pay for anything at the request of the school.

I went to a PTA meeting for the first time this week and one of my friends (after the meeting) asked two members of the committee why they didn't do own clothes days more often and the answer was that they draw huge complaints from parents. Earlier in the year we had a "yellow day" for a donation of £1 and the whole contribution from one particular class was 73p!!

It's a fantastic school, well run, and for the vast majority of the parents £1 occasionally would be no problem. The way I see it is that I'm getting my child's education for free, so the odd contribution so that the school can buy "extras" like benches for the yard, etc... or contribute to charity, doesn't pain me at all. But some don't see it like that. Mil goes nuts whenever the school ask for any money - not because of the cost (because it's not even that she's got to pay it!!) but the principle of the school wanting money .

Jxx

madnessandmayhem

My sons school (he's 6) has a non-unifom day once a month for a 50p donation and this money goes towards subsidising the end of term discos and coaches fo their xmas trip to see a pantomime, so I don't mind paying 50p as the school really work hard to give them these 'extras'-in the summer term last year the went to the seaside for the day-as part of geography- and that was free.
Today though they did have a dress up in spots day for a £1 donation for cin-and the school do so much fundraising for themselves anyway by way of quiz nights etc they wouldn't need to use any of this for themelves! The usually do something similar for red nose day as well!

January20

As a mum, I always found non-uniform days a pain: the big debate over what to wear And not always having lots of money

As a teacher, as said before, behaviour goes down the pan as kids are hyper and I also think it re-inforces the view that a uniform is some form of punishment (teenagers in general don't like wearing a uniform). In our school, teachers have to choice of coming to school in their non-work clothes too. I don't.

In general, I think people should give to charity because they want to, because they support that charity and believe it is a worthy cause, NOT because they are rewarded for it. Also, I don't want to feel pressurised by my child's school or by my work place into donating to charity whether I want to or not.