Primary School selling beers at sports day?

Idiophreak

365days wrote: »

(And if it's not 'necessary' why have it?)

Is sports day necessary?

Then why have it?

Dunroamin

365days wrote: »

Yes.

We have plenty who turn up smashed to get their kids too.

It's white lightning central where I work!

Sorry, I thought you were a parent!

I think that if you work in that sort of environment it's easy to think that everywhere else has the same sort of problems. In somewhere like where you work, possibly alcohol might be inappropriate.

365days

Idiophreak wrote: »

Is sports day necessary?

Then why have it?

No it's not necessary from my point of view, but for loads of kids it's their chance to shine.

Anyway back to the thread.

Just as a matter of interest.

Would you be happy if your child's teacher had a glass of wine or two every lunchtime?

pigpen

Dunroamin wrote: »

You have parents who'd get smashed at a sports day?

My OH does.. (have a drunkard mother.. not would get smashed himself)

Just to add another angle.. At the primary here there are 49% of the children are not born in this country, a vast proportion of these do not consume alcohol due to religious reasons.. Many of these families would remove their children from a sports day if alcohol were to be sold... how would this benefit the children or the school?

365days

Dunroamin wrote: »

Sorry, I thought you were a parent!

I think that if you work in that sort of environment it's easy to think that everywhere else has the same sort of problems. In somewhere like where you work, possibly alcohol might be inappropriate.

I'm a parent too. I hate seeing parents stuck in the beer tent, lashed up, at the school fete. I think it's rather tragic.

balletshoes

warehouse wrote: »

I'd like the choice of water, fruit hjuice, tea, coffee, bottle of beer or glass of wine. Why should my enjoyment of a small glass of red be denied because of a very small percentage who can't control themselves?

Bravo the school for being a bit more mature than most others.

those choices, including the beer/wine, sound lovely warehouse.

Unfortunately, the OP states that its only warm beer that the school will be providing for sale at the sports day, no other options, and nothing for non-alcohol drinkers.

Personally, I think the school is missing a major trick by not selling soft drinks as well, and having tea and coffee for sale.

Alikay

365days wrote: »

Just as a matter of interest.

Would you be happy if your child's teacher had a glass of wine or two every lunchtime?

Two glasses of wine every single lunchtime suggests some kind of dependence, so no. An occasional glass of wine or a beer with lunch would be OK by me, but from what I hear from most teachers, they barely have time to gobble down a sandwich while doing admin.

Idiophreak

365days wrote: »

Would you be happy if your child's teacher had a glass of wine or two every lunchtime?

A glass? Or two?

My wife taught in France for a while - the teachers each had a small glass of wine with lunch every day and were, amazingly, perfectly capable of fulfilling their responsibilities in the afternoon.

Honestly, in this country, no...I wouldn't be happy if my child's teacher was having a glass of wine at lunch - because, in our culture, that would say something worrying about them...but in France, where culture allows for it, I'd have no concerns at all about a glass of wine at lunch.

POPPYOSCAR

365days wrote: »

No it's not necessary from my point of view, but for loads of kids it's their chance to shine.

Anyway back to the thread.

Just as a matter of interest.

Would you be happy if your child's teacher had a glass of wine or two every lunchtime?

Personally I would not be happy.

I have read that even one alcoholic drink impairs ability and I would like to think the teachers have all their faculties about them when they are responsible for children.

Drinking at lunch time always sends me to sleep, even one!

duchy

I was once put on the spot by some kids........They were telling me how on the Sunday they had been hanging out in the village and had seen one of my colleagues. "We saw Miss X going into the pub at 12 o clock Miss....and she didn't leave til 6....and then she got in her car and drove off.She was drinking and driving" <cue disapproving looks from the kids> Now I loathed this woman but hey staff solidarity and all that I replied saying that they didn't know that and she could have been drinking Coke...."Yeah Riiiiiight Miss".

As one of the posters has decided I'm anti alcohol (despite me mentioning I'm not teatotal - but maybe he doesn't read too well) and claiming the French as a role model. The French rarely "just drink" alcohol is far more often part of a meal out -even bars will always serve snacks and nibbles. Here our pub tradition is for drink as the primary focus -it's a whole different mindset. You don't see the hordes of drunk teens and twenties in most European cities that are so common in UK cities......they aren't obsessed with alcohol as a social tool the way we are .