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13 year old son in trouble for selling Pepsi at school
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I find it interesting that you equate 'well brought up' with someone with more money.
You're very fixated on these rules - rules that don't seem to exist according to the OP. Do you know better or are you examples all dropping dead from heroin as we speak?
Lol.. is that the best you can do pmsl....
The rules will be there they are pretty much standard the prospectus us parents get has a summary of the rules but the actual school rules are a huge document the governors read through every year when they are updated.. with intricate subclauses. ask at the office for a copy
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TBH so would l to a certain extent. I have my own small business and would be pleased that my son was thinking for himself and had the 'guts' to go out there and try it for himself.
No wonder there are so many little $hits out there then given none of you encourage your children to do as they are told and show respect at school and encourage them to ignore school policy.. explains a great deal about the attitude of the children when the parents condone it.
No wonder teachers are hard to come by.LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14Hope to be debt free until the day I dieMortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)0 -
Am I the only forumite to wonder where the cans of coke are? If they were confiscated I'd be annoyed that the school had stolen from my family and want to get them back or be financially compensated for their loss. Who knows, the school may have put them in their own coke machine (if they have one) and be profiting from the freebie!0
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Lol.. is that the best you can do pmsl....
The rules will be there they are pretty much standard the prospectus us parents get has a summary of the rules but the actual school rules are a huge document the governors read through every year when they are updated.. with intricate subclauses. ask at the office for a copy
Strangely the teacher in question didn't seem to be able to point out which rule it was.;)
If the school has such a rule (which only you think it does) then surely it should make the pupils aware of such a rule? Otherwise what's the point of having it?
From the OP -Just an an email from his Tutor - she'd taken 4 cans off him because he was selling them in school. (buying them for 35p each/4 for £1) selling them for 50p each.
I've asked her to point out in the rules where it says he can't........
but apart from that I'm speechless.:mad:
BTW - it was Pepsi Max, not full fat Pepsi
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This has been going on probably since schools began! When I was at school my Dad did a market stall for extra money and sold cheap watches that were in fashion at the time. I used to sell them in school myself.
Some kids that are 13/14 (my son is 14 this year) are desperate to earn money. My son has his name down for sticking up skittles and a paper round but no sign of anything yet. He cant do proper job till he's 16. He is soon going to mow his grandparents lawn for a few pounds and I would be happy for him to make a little profit on selling something at school if he was so inclined. I wouldnt kick up a fuss though if he got caught.
When I was his age I had a Saturday job in a shoe shop and worked almost full time through the school holidays so I know I was keen to earn at that age too.“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.” - Dave Ramsey0 -
No wonder there are so many little $hits out there then given none of you encourage your children to do as they are told and show respect at school and encourage them to ignore school policy.. explains a great deal about the attitude of the children when the parents condone it.
No wonder teachers are hard to come by.
So according to the OP - there isn't a rule in place about this sort of thing but you (who has absolutely no more information than anyone else) have decided that it's against school policy and then decided that everyone who doesn't agree with your paranoid ramblings of selling Pepsi leads to death by heroin, is the cause of 'little !!!!!!'.:rotfl:0 -
well if rules are there to be broken maybe laws are too... who knows what you think is ok in your houses.. I like rules and laws they serve useful purposes where I live.. and if you are telling your child they are clever breaking minor rules where do you draw the line?
This boy isn't clever or big or grown up or original... he is wrong and his parents should be telling him so... that is my point.
A small point - did you stick to the rules of finance in the debts that you ran up? Your signature rather suggests that you didn't.0 -
I'm quite shocked at the reaction to this - i'm reading things as if a can of pepsi is the worst thing in the world for a kid to be buying (or selling!). When I was 14 or 15 I used to pull out the posters from smash hits of the girls in bands/ actresses etc that were in there and sell them for £1 a poster or more to the boys in my class!!
Only sold about 10 posters I reckon but two magazines at 60p each or something and I made over £10 in a week! The boys were too embarrased to buy what they saw was a girls magazine - i remember three of them fought over a slightly suggestive poster in smash hits of Erica Eleniak (baywatch! - shows how long ago it was) and it went to the highest bidder at £2.50.
No doubt some of you will now think I was selling !!!!!! at age 14 judging by the reaction to the scandal of selling pepsi.
Maybe things were more relaxed at high school 17 years ago - my teacher asked what i was doing - i told her and she laughed and at the end of the year wrote in my personal achievement record something along the lines of i was always trying different business endeavours. Then again she was also the teacher that let me and 3 friends order a domino's pizza to the school office and eat it in her classroom! Shock horror domino's pizza for lunch.
Anyway hope you're son isn't in too much trouble OP - i think people need to get a grip on things - and can't understand how selling a few cans of pepsi for a 15p profit means that this will lead on to selling drugs.0 -
No wonder there are so many little $hits out there then given none of you encourage your children to do as they are told and show respect at school and encourage them to ignore school policy.. explains a great deal about the attitude of the children when the parents condone it.
No wonder teachers are hard to come by.
Oh FGS you really are over the top, look at what you're assuming!!
Happy moneysaving all.0 -
No one wonder the country's in a state when some parents have decided that our young entrepreneurs are committing acts of evil! Absolutely ridiculous!0
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