Primary School selling beers at sports day?

heartbreak_star

I wouldn't have a problem with it - but agree there should have been jugs of water and squash for non-drinkers/kids.

FGS, it's a nice summer day out. Would you object to a beer or wine at a picnic?

HBS x

duchy

securityguy wrote: »

Supermarkets, in England and Wales at least, have been able to get licenses since the early 1960s. Sainsbury's were first, in 1962. So either you were born before 1944 or you're mis-remembering.

Hmmm I was born in 1960 -I wonder if they simply didn't routinely have them or if it was just lower key that I didn't notice.

365days

heartbreak_star wrote: »

I wouldn't have a problem with it - but agree there should have been jugs of water and squash for non-drinkers/kids.

FGS, it's a nice summer day out. Would you object to a beer or wine at a picnic?

HBS x

My objection is the school selling it, not the drinking, for the reasons I've already stated.

pigpen

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Would you object to a beer or wine at a picnic?

HBS x

I would... and looking at the replies here I don't think I'd be alone.

I don't drink around my children and I don't want others doing it.. Plus someone would likely be driving (picnics/day trips) and so alcohol shouldn't be included.

I told the outlaws if OH's sister was drunk in front of my girls again I would put the 3 of us on the train and come home.. and I absolutely mean it.. she was leaving or we would... it is dangerous and drunks are unpredictable and volatile and coming from a family of alcohol abusers I have no time for them.

I don't understand why people just couldn't make do with squash or pop .. why does everything have to include alcohol? No wonder so many people abuse it when it is quite literally forced on you at every turn. I doubt anyone would keel over from a glass of lemonade instead of drugging themselves with alcohol... plus the children can have some too!

This is a reason you get arrested/fined/drinks removed for having alcohol in city centres and walking around the streets.. so it is ok to drink on school premises with 200+ children but not walking down the street.. is there any logic left anywhere?

If I went to sports day and there were adults drinking I would take my children home immediately.

peachyprice

duchy wrote: »

Hmmm I was born in 1960 -I wonder if they simply didn't routinely have them or if it was just lower key that I didn't notice.

But why would you have noticed? Do you remember whether you noticed the soap powder display or the baked beans?

Do you think children nowdays notice the alcohol aisle and are drawn to it just because it's there?

duchy

peachyprice wrote: »

Can you not see the obvious contradiction in your post?

Your parents educated you and let you drink alcohol from a young age, as did mine, and do I with my children, but it's really not that common in this country. It's the lack of parents educating children that is causing the problem with teenagers marauding the streets, and the very British attitude that you are now trying to promote that alcohol should be hidden out of view until they hit 18, causing problems, not the availability of alcohol in supermarkets (I don't know how old you are but it was certainly available when I was a child). The easiest was to get a teenager to do something it to tell them that they mustn't.

Actually I agree parental education is the key -alcohol was never forbidden fruit to me so I never felt the need to get excited about it. I'm not saying I never got drunk in my late teens or early twenties -but I never ever got so stinking drunk that I couldn't walk or take care of myself (or think I could).

I think alcohol is a drug -and if mis-used a very dangerous one (I lost a good friend to drink related illness recently-dead at 42 ) and for that reason I think we need to respect it-and having it on the next aisle to cornflakes doesn't really give the right message. Does moving it back to off licences change that message ? Maybe -it at least gives a message that you don't buy alcohol as routinely as you'd buy a pint of milk ?

Alcohol is like knife sales ....... In the right hands benign -in the wrong hands damaging.

duchy

peachyprice wrote: »

But why would you have noticed? Do you remember whether you noticed the soap powder display or the baked beans?

Do you think children nowdays notice the alcohol aisle and are drawn to it just because it's there?

I think it is more subtle than that ...... If you see alcohol in a place you buy your everyday items then does it give the child the idea that alcohol is fine to drink every day-even as a subliminal impression ?

moneysaymoneydo

"No wonder so many people abuse it when it is quite literally forced on you at every turn"

Sorry but no one forces anything on me!

pigpen

moneysaymoneydo wrote: »

"No wonder so many people abuse it when it is quite literally forced on you at every turn"

Sorry but no one forces anything on me!

So you are never exposed to advertising or the media or displays in shops???

securityguy

duchy wrote: »

I think it is more subtle than that ...... If you see alcohol in a place you buy your everyday items then does it give the child the idea that alcohol is fine to drink every day-even as a subliminal impression ?

Alcohol is fine to drink every day. Plenty of people drink a beer or a glass of wine every day with no social, health or other problems. You are assuming that all drinkers are problem drinkers, which simply isn't the case.