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dizzie

Auntie-Dolly wrote: »

The items showing in ParentPay are items that CAN be paid for online, not necessarily things you are being charged for.

Hi Auntie Dolly. Well this is a mystery because if you are suggesting that these are things that CAN be paid for online (not what you are necessarily being charged for), surely the same "items" would show up for both of my children...and they don't. For example neither of the two aforementioned items were on both children's accounts.

Furthermore, when I go into the account sections for each child.... it quite clearly states for that child, "Items Due for Payment" and gives a brief description (often abbreviated) of the item, an amount and a due date. This would imply that payment for these items is expected. I don't think I'd get away with sending out a communication to any of my business customers with a notification of "Items Due for Payment" and also a due date for payment....when they were not actually going to receive some of these "items". What a nonsense!

...and how do you decide if the item is something that your child is going to receive or is involved with on the occasions that they abbreviate the descriptions?

...if what you say is correct, I would suggest that this system needs some serious re-wording. May I suggest "Items That May Be Requested", rather than "Items Due for Payment"? My goodness, no wonder GCSE English went "belly-up" last year when school payment systems can't actually say what they mean...

PILES

Zedicus wrote: »

Doesn't Google work on your computer? :rotfl:

Yes it does, could not find the relevant info. Are you able to answer?

Zedicus

PILES wrote: »

Yes it does, could not find the relevant info. Are you able to answer?

You need to look at the Children Act, 1989.

PILES

Zedicus wrote: »

You need to look at the Children Act, 1989.

What section?

Zedicus

PILES wrote: »

What section?

What did your last slave die of? Don't be so lazy. You can't expect other people to do all your research for you.

PILES

Zedicus wrote: »

What did your last slave die of? Don't be so lazy. You can't expect other people to do all your research for you.

From your earlier post I assumed you knew what you were talking about. Having had a brief encounter with the act a few years ago I knew it was extensive so was just looking for a steer.

MamaMoo_2

Zedicus wrote: »

What did your last slave die of? Don't be so lazy. You can't expect other people to do all your research for you.

Having had a look, the only relevant part I could find was about children in boarding schools. I too would appreciate it if you could point to the relevant part of the act as I'm obviously missing it. (It's a big piece of legislation though, so it's possible it's in one of the bits I didn't think sounded relevant enough to read)
Thanks

itch_for_a_glitch

unholyangel wrote: »

What would make sense imo is having a £10-£15 line of credit (about enough for one weeks meals). Thus giving school plenty time to notify while not being too harsh if parents have forgotten or even perhaps money is tight one week.
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What would make sense IMHO is having £10-£15 credit on a kids card (about enough for one weeks meals). Thus giving the parent plenty of time to put more credit on or even perhaps if money is tight one week.

JimmyTheWig

eschaton wrote: »

Nothing but a non story - the parents are to blame 100%.

So why punish the child rather than the parents?

itch_for_a_glitch

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

So why punish the child rather than the parents?

Punish ? Come on, its one day without a few chips.
I can (just) remember being an 11 year old boy, and football in the yard was FAR more important.