13 year old son in trouble for selling Pepsi at school

Fang_3

londongirl wrote: »

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.

But you sold things at school! According to Professor Pigpen you should be either dead, a junkie or in prison!;)

ess0two

Raksha wrote: »

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

All good and well until other pupils cotton onto this,at my sons school the bullies would confiscate all the stock from the other kids and sell it for themselves.

Right minefield for the teachers etc,and just increased bullying.

property.advert

Oh for the days when you could control the supply of booze and cigarettes from the sanctity of the maths bock toilets.

If school is worried about a little profiteering from selling Pepsi then they truly have their priorities wrong. I'd tell my child that the headmaster was an old twit and out of touch.

eamon

Reminds me of a friend at boarding school in the late 70's. He seen a gap in the market for Wagon Wheels (4 pack). The tuck shop only sold singles. Together with one of the day boys whose mum had a cash & carry card he took money up front for a couple of wholesaler boxes (think it was 12 packs per box). Within weeks he was up to buying & selling 10 boxes per week. Cleverly he organised some 1st year boys to act as mules and paid them in wagon wheels. I think he was making as much a £50 pw in profit. Management did find out and closed the operation down. I wont mention my role in this enterprise.

Fang_3

property.advert wrote: »

Oh for the days when you could control the supply of booze and cigarettes from the sanctity of the maths bock toilets.

If school is worried about a little profiteering from selling Pepsi then they truly have their priorities wrong. I'd tell my child that the headmaster was an old twit and out of touch.

Exactly! Any decent Head would then immediately put into place an extra-curricular group like 'the Future Business Leaders of 'country of choice)' in order to nurture such ambition.

Apricot

I sold cigarettes in school - used to enable me to double my lunch money. No one was forced to buy them and not many of the kids realised I was only doing it to get my smoke for free - I am neither a druggie nor a drug dealer - I work in accounts

no-oneknowsme

I work in a School and what your Son is doing happens on a daily basis.

Personally I dont see the problem with it.

mountainofdebt

I'm thinking that the rule that the OP's son broke was more to do with what he was selling rather than the actual selling itself.

Whilst I appreciate the fact that diet pepsi may not be everyone's cup of tea, I can't help but thinking that by banning the stuff from schools has made it all the more attractive to children.

mummyplus3

I did this at school and made 'loads' of money, well infact me and a friend went into partnership. We took £5 each + plus rail fare into the city went to poundland and brought £10 worth of sweets, multi packs of polo's etc.. just after all the school kids were banned from the corner shop and we were no longer aloud of school property in break times. We sold sweets ranging from 5p to 30p and made in our eyes a very healthy profit. We got caught a few times but just carried on... in the end I got an "older boyfriend" so wanted to hang round with that crowd so sold out my share of the 'business' to him for £15 Was good times grew my love of business and will hopefully make my future business a sucess.

EDIT: My share was worth more than £15 but he was one of my best friends and I really wanted a new CD that was £13.99 lol

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no-oneknowsme wrote: »

I work in a School and what your Son is doing happens on a daily basis.

Personally I dont see the problem with it.

like i pointed out on the previous page, this is one of the problems


to be honest from the canteen staff side of view we have caught a few of the boys selling stuff and told them to take it outside as we wont have it going on in the canteen,
last year we had to lose a member of staff as money was down in the canteen and this was the reason why so we have all had to work so much harder because the boys wanted to buy and sell sweets and cakes. and personally i think its unfair thats someone should lose thier wage because boys want to earn a bit of money without actually working.


also when selling things in school what if some children have allergies or reactions to high colourings etc its not very fair i dont think on the children or the parents that have to deal with the side affects.