School uniform and benefits

GlasweJen

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

Flaming heck, the judgmental carp never ends on here does it.

There could be many reasons, are you suggesting now that only employed people should move ?????:eek::rotfl:

This will be the next thing on the benefit boards, gosh shock horror a person who is out of work MOVED


Grrrr

For me it's more that they moved areas without jobs or lining up a school placement.

System

Aren't people always being told they should move to improve their job prospects?

GlasweJen

Yeah but you can apply for jobs out of area then move when you're offered one, anyway I thought the midlands was an unemployment blackspot?

ab.da54

HotBubblegum wrote: »

But I dont think they have a week and half notice to get it all in..plus although we dont have the same council tax to pay, we have the same household bills and living expenses. I had an outlook pretty much same as you, because i have been working all my life and providing for my daughter as a single parent for most of it. But unfortunatly until you have experienced something like this, you will never know just how hard it is!! Its certainly changed my outlook on unemployed.

However, you have known since October that your daughter would be needing a uniform for a new school.

What happened to putting a little bit aside?

Bollotom

bestpud wrote: »

I'd have had a field day with a school that tried to charge me £90 for a badge!

Didn't you?

Not known for my tact or diplomacy. lol. But the head said it was either that way or I could find another school for my son. In the end I splashed out for the blazer and various other bits with the school emblem on them at an inflated price from a shop in Walthamstow, which is not even in the borough of the school. I feel for those parents who would have to really struggle to get the stuff together. Then to compound the problem the school changed to different colours for year 10 and 11.

FBaby

Poppie68 wrote: »

but it's very unfair to start criticizing the poor girl, could you imagine if she actually read these posts.

But no one is critisizing the child. Mentioning her size is not critisizing, on the opposite, it is raising concern about how this will affect her under the circumstances. My heart does to that girl because starting a new schooll where you know no one mid year, and overweight is going to be tough. I hope she is a strong girl, who is confortable in her own shoes whatever her size so she can go ther with her head high and not care what other kids think or say. However, if she is not so confident, I hope her parents will be there to help and support her.

plum2002

GlasweJen wrote: »

Yeah but you can apply for jobs out of area then move when you're offered one, anyway I thought the midlands was an unemployment blackspot?

Does depend where in the midlands, stacks of jobs (and not McJobs either) and very little unemployment round here

Blackpool_Saver

silvercar wrote: »

Please give a reason why it is appropriate to keep a 14 year old girl out of school for 6 months.

Me ? huh why? and I never said it was.

But I will guess as you want me to attempt it, illness? family circumstances?

Surely that question can only be answered by the OP and then only if they want to.

bestpud

Bollotom wrote: »

Not known for my tact or diplomacy. lol. But the head said it was either that way or I could find another school for my son. In the end I splashed out for the blazer and various other bits with the school emblem on them at an inflated price from a shop in Walthamstow, which is not even in the borough of the school. I feel for those parents who would have to really struggle to get the stuff together. Then to compound the problem the school changed to different colours for year 10 and 11.

Crikey! :eek:

There is a Head who needs challenging!

mummyroysof3

my advice would be to join all local facebook selling groups you can find and look in the charity shops.

imo schools really shouldnt be able to have uniforms that cost so much. i have no idea why they do