Schools charging & people on benefits!

kingfisherblue

I don't work as I am a carer for my older son, who has complex needs. I do try to budget for any trips but it isn't always possible. When that is the case, either my sons do without, or I approach the school and ask if I can pay the following week (this has usually been because of the ridiculously short notice given!).

Although I am on benefits, I appreciate the fact that taxpayers are funding everything for me. It's not a life I would have chosen, as I had always worked, but it has given me better budgeting skills

Fang_3

lilly81 wrote: »

Thats rubbish! In oxfordshire its the local authority that pays for the children on free school meals to go on the trips, they get this money from the government.

Who do you think funds the Government?

Fang_3

lilly81 wrote: »

OK so what would u suggest I do? Make my son miss out on trips with his class mates because I cant work?

Yes! That's what others that cannot afford it do.

Mupette

Fang wrote: »

If there isn't the money yes! Bloody hell! Should we all pay for your child to have luxuries that other children with two working parents cannot have? Life isn't fair.

Where would you have it stop? You can't afford to buy him a car when he's 17, so someone else should have to? It's the same principle.

The fact is you chose to allow your son to go. You could've cancelled, you didn't and you have a disgusting sense of entitlement that makes you think that the school should cover the shortfall, despite the fact that you won't actually be out of pocket for the other child, once your son has done his trip. It beggars belief!

Actually if i did cancell i wouldnt have a refund. So please explain the point in cancelling something i would not get refund on?

As said but you choose to ignore, I paid in full the exchange trip, with my own money, not yours. I just wanted a little help with the bus and food costs for exchange student whilst he was with my son at school, that was paid, by a kind commity, not by you.

It is beggers belief that you feel the need to accuse me of practically stealing from you.

Oldernotwiser

lilly81 wrote: »

OK so what would u suggest I do? Make my son miss out on trips with his class mates because I cant work?

If you can't afford it, he can't do it. It's unfortunate but life isn't fair.