Primary School selling beers at sports day?

duchy

LondonDiva wrote: »

So I take it there was no water fountain?

Good point -The adults could use that !

Frankly the school as well as been inconsiderate by not offering soft drinks is also missing out on a good fundraising opportunity. Soft drinks would be bought by non drinking parents for themselves, for younger siblings and for their school age kids for after they have finished.

POPPYOSCAR

duchy wrote: »

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 adults only smacks of thoughtlessness -and a poor example.

Yes and it is so sad to see.

One little boy used to be taken to school by his mum with a drink problem still in her nightie most days.

He was a continual problem at school and one day tried to jump out of the classroom window.

fluffnutter

duchy wrote: »

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

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

Perhaps supermarkets should stop selling booze so as to set a better example to all these recovering alcoholic parents.

moneysaymoneydo

Could always suggest they bring their own packs of beer/bottles of wine just like the ones that stand and smoke their cancer sticks at the back of the field, they are not on sale yet they are permitted to smoke them.

Re alchies I would imagine as they put alcohol before everything else in their life that they most likely don't bother attending their kids sports day anyhow!

fluffnutter

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Yes and it is so sad to see.

One little boy used to be taken to school by his mum with a drink problem still in her nightie most days.

He was a continual problem at school and one day tried to jump out of the classroom window.

Not the school's fault. Nor the other parents who can handle their booze. Life is full of people with problems. They need help, proper help, not a half-hearted attempt to sanitise life by hiding all the sherry bottles at the school sports day. If an alcoholic wants to get their hands on booze, do people really think pretending others don't drink will make the slightest bit of difference?

Personally I don't think alcohol at a daytime school event is necessarily that appropriate, but to suggest schools have some sort of moral duty to the odd alcohol parent is a bit much.

sexylulubelle

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!

I work 3 jobs unfortunately do not have the luxury of getting involved with PTA meetings and fundraising for the school.

365days

fluffnutter wrote: »

Not the school's fault. Nor the other parents who can handle their booze. Life is full of people with problems. They need help, proper help, not a half-hearted attempt to sanitise life by hiding all the sherry bottles at the school sports day. If an alcoholic wants to get their hands on booze, do people really think pretending others don't drink will make the slightest bit of difference?

Personally I don't think alcohol at a daytime school event is necessarily that appropriate, but to suggest schools have some sort of moral duty to the odd alcohol parent is a bit much.

I agree to a point.

However an afternoon sports day is not the place to be serving alcohol. Every day teachers up and down the country deal with the kids whose lives are ruined by their parents drinking. For the school to be seen selling it in the afternoon sends a very mixed message to both the children and the parents.

I'd be happier but not estatic if people bought their own in if they felt they were incapable of enjoying an hour or two watching their children without having a drink.

duchy

fluffnutter wrote: »

Personally I don't think alcohol at a daytime school event is necessarily that appropriate, but to suggest schools have some sort of moral duty to the odd alcohol parent is a bit much.

School have a moral duty to the children in their charge NOT the parents. If a school wants to have a beer tent so alcohol isn't in their face -that's one thing-to sell ONLY alcohol with no non alcoholic alternative is an entirely different matter. A licencee has to offer non alcoholic drinks in a pub as well as alcoholic and drink awareness is part of their certification....regardless of if the premises have a children's licence or not !

duchy

fluffnutter wrote: »

Perhaps supermarkets should stop selling booze so as to set a better example to all these recovering alcoholic parents.

Not a bad idea actually. Put alcohol sales back into off licences and out of the price cutting supermarkets. Treat it as an adult product -in the same way Tesco don't sell sex toys and cigarettes aren't on open display anymore.

POPPYOSCAR

365days wrote: »

I agree to a point.

However an afternoon sports day is not the place to be serving alcohol. Every day teachers up and down the country deal with the kids whose lives are ruined by their parents drinking. For the school to be seen selling it in the afternoon sends a very mixed message to both the children and the parents.

I'd be happier but not estatic if people bought their own in if they felt they were incapable of enjoying an hour or two watching their children without having a drink.

Exactly this.