Primary School selling beers at sports day?

warehouse

balletshoes wrote: »

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.

I missed that point, thanks ballet. Yes, a full range of drinks would be much better.

securityguy

MarilynMonroe wrote: »

I'm just curious, do you have kids?

Yes. Two. Who cook. Much to the surprise of their friends, it would appear, who have been told never to touch knives.

securityguy

pigpen wrote: »

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?

Presumably the school is judging this according to its intake. Outside large cities, it is routine for school to be 100% white European, probably white British.

securityguy

365days wrote: »

This is exactly the reason it shouldn't be sold. There will be a small minority who will see it as a green card to get smashed at their kids sports day, with the school seen to support it.

Problem drinkers are going to struggle to get "smashed" on the contents of cans of beer, especially as (in the scenario described) it'll be weak supermarket lager. Their bladders will be the problem, not their livers.

I'm fascinated by the terror for booze: it's like stepping into the debates amongst older Methodists, believing that renting out the church hall to a wedding reception that's serving champagne marks the end times. Most people do not live amongst huge numbers of problem drinkers. If they do, they modify their behaviour appropriately.

But the idea that if, for example, the PTA in a suburban school serving wine or beer at an event, even one where there are children present, somehow presents a risk is fantastical. If it's an area with a high proportion of ethnic minority parents (most of whom, of course, are not teetotal, or if they are, would regard that as a personal matter) then the decision may be different, just as I suspect that some schools would be careful with a hog roast at the PTA barbecue.

Idiophreak

securityguy wrote: »

Yes. Two. Who cook. Much to the surprise of their friends, it would appear, who have been told never to touch knives.

When I was 8 the dinner ladies used to refuse to cut up my fruit at lunch....so my mum sent me into school with a knife so I could do it myself. She got called in to explain herself to the head. Happy days

Savvy_Sue

Dunroamin wrote: »

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

365days wrote: »

Yes.

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

It's white lightning central where I work!

Sadly, we used to see some of our sons' primary age classmates sat by the river with a bottle of cider ...

And even very respectable schools can have parents with a drink problem.

duchy

Indeed -even respectable parents can have drink problems - alcoholism or even just heavy drinking is no respecter of class or income or anything else.

joeblack066

I was shocked on Saturday when my grand daughters school was selling beer & wine at tbe summer fayre. Inappropriate IMO.

Dunroamin

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Sadly, we used to see some of our sons' primary age classmates sat by the river with a bottle of cider ...

And even very respectable schools can have parents with a drink problem.

There's a difference between someone having a drink problem and someone drinking to excess at a very public and inappropriate place.

MarilynMonroe_2

heartbreak_star wrote: »

I didn't think there were so many uptight people on here

My parents would quite happily have a beer or glass of wine with a special meal like Sunday roast when I was a kid, mum is partial to a long whisky and lemonade in the evening, and dad liked a tot of rum before bed.

I'm not a raging binge drinker...

HBS x

Theres a difference between drinking at home and drinking within a school.