Primary School selling beers at sports day?

SingleSue

They serve wine (plus tea, coffee and fruit juice) at the evening events at the school my boys go to..not that I partake as I have to drive the car home!

They are at high school though.

fluffnutter

sexylulubelle wrote: »

.. my issue is not the selling of the beers ...

... it really made my blood boil that they could sit there selling ALCOHOL...

Your issue is with the selling of beers then isn't it?

desdemona01

Maybe the OP could get involved with the PTA and volunteer to ruin a soft drinks stall for the next school event rather than coming on here and critising the other parents who give their free time to raise money for the school their child attends!

mysk_girl

Our school and preschool sell alcohol at the fete and BBQ fun day events - these are out of school time and there are plenty of soft options available. They do not sell alcohol at sports days, I personally don't think that this is appropriate. And I've just applied for and received a Temporary Event Notice for the preschool event in July, so some of us know what we are doing!

andygb

MarilynMonroe wrote: »

I don't think it's right at all to be selling beer at a school sports day, what are they thinking?? Primary, thats 7 - 11 right?

Plus its a day for the kids not the parents.

It reminds me of when my cousin got christened and it just turned into a !!!! up for the adults and stuff the kids.

:T
Quite right.
I like a drink as much as anyone else, but there is a time and place for it, and a primary school during the day is not the place for it.
There are many towns (maybe all towns) in the UK where it is against the law to drink alcohol in the streets, away from pubs, so how can it be right to be seen consuming alcohol in front of children at a time of day which used to be outside of licencing hours?
Maybe they should start having open bars at those places which host children's parties?:(

daisiegg

desdemona01 wrote: »

Maybe the OP could get involved with the PTA and volunteer to ruin a soft drinks stall for the next school event rather than coming on here and critising the other parents who give their free time to raise money for the school their child attends!

Was this intentional...? Bit mean if so! :rotfl:

POPPYOSCAR

SingleSue wrote: »

They serve wine (plus tea, coffee and fruit juice) at the evening events at the school my boys go to..not that I partake as I have to drive the car home!

They are at high school though.

I think that is different and more acceptable.

The only event that I ever went to where the school did the same as you describe was the presentation evening for the GCSE and A level certificates.

I noticed that not many people were drinking the wine as like you we all had to drive home.

duchy

barbarawright wrote: »

Why? It's not like they're crack addicts? It's a perfectly legal substance and presumably it's sold at a profit in order to raise funds for the school. I just don't get the problem.

Trouble is statistically every school has parents who have a drink problem or are recovering alcoholics.

I don't have a problem with a school fete having a beer tent -or a school selling wine at an PTA evening function fundraiser like a wine and wisdom evening (and soft drinks which have a bigger profit margin for the kids) but sports day is usually within school time and well it's about encouraging the kids to be healthy - not present them with role models like teachers flogging beer to take back to where adults are sitting with kids (unlike a beer tent). It just isn't appropriate.

Not everyone drinks alcohol anyway (or may be driving or on medication that reacts with alcohol) so why only have beer -it's an odd message to be giving and quite inconsiderate .Does the head have a drink problem ?

Our primary always had jugs of squash available -telling the kids to bring a drink in with them didn't work -as if it was really hot one drink wasn't enough-and by the afternoon the drinks would be warm.

To have drinks available for (certain) adults only smacks of thoughtlessness -and a poor example.

barbarawright

I don't remember having juice or ices available at school sports days in the 70s and we all survived. I don't think I'd have even noticed what the adults were drinking and I genuinely can't imagine why a 9 year old should be 'mortified' at mum having a bottle of Becks.

LondonDiva

duchy wrote: »

To have drinks available for adults only smacks of thoughtlessness -and a poor example.

So I take it there was no water fountain?