Consumer Electronics/school

Wyre

My kids' junior school had specific 'DS' days at the end of term as 'every one has one'...except mine. We couldn't afford 4 DS's and we still don't have one now. I felt bad but what could I do? There's nothing like having pressure put on you by school is there. *sighs*

fluffnutter

poppyjane wrote: »

I am so cross with my daughter's school!! They're allowed to take toys in today, as it's the last day of term, and have been told they can take in consumer electronics. Now that's all well and good, but taking stuff like that to school, is about as sensible as leaving them on the dashboard of your car in my opinion. I don't have the money to replace her DS if it gets broken - although a large amount of the families in her school are very wealthy. If I didn't have a hospital appointment this morning, I'd have kept her home. I felt I had no choice but to let her take it, with her understanding it wouldn't be replaced if anything happened to it. She's NINE by the way. Is it me?? (And I'm not even mentioning the blatant consumerism that's being encouraged, or the bone idle teachers. Yes, they've got end of term stuff to tidy, but why not involve the children like I would at home??? GRRRR) Rant over!!

Jane :mad:

I think you're completely over-reacting. You'd have kept her home if you could?? That's silly. The last day of term is good fun and you'd have prevented her enjoying her day with her friends all because of your fears that an object would have been broken or stolen. Seems like you're the one overly encouraging consumerism frankly.

If you didn't want her to take it, you should have told her she couldn't. I can't see why that would have been such a problem.

BTW, I can't abide it when people call teachers 'bone idle' or some such other ill-thought and unmerited insult. That 'bone idle' teacher has been looking after your child plus 29 or so others day in, day out for the past few months. Show some support.

mrcow

My daughter is 8 and doesn't have any "consumer electronics". She has normal games and toys that she'd take in.

Just send her in with a board game......same as all the other kids. It's part of the fun of the last day of term.

couponqueen123

my kids school dont do toys day they have had a party , santa visit , disco, games of pass the parcel, (school provided gifts )they had selection boxes fancydress/smart clothes

but when i was a kid we had toy day and i would never have been allowed to take a ds in lol we were given a game or doll to take lol

my dd asks me frequently if she can wear her party shoes or her pink boots like friends do but i always say no ( mean mum look suits me

also if yr unhappy about it go along to the next teacher parent meeting and express yr concerns about breakages etc

the teachers not bone idil eaither u try 30 odd kids all excited for an hour let alown 6 hours and even having yr lunch and breaks with them

Spendless

My 10yo DD's school, today they were allowed to take in any toys except electrical ones. DD didn't take in anything - she forgot and instead played with some moshi monster figures her friends had brought in.

barbiedoll

How sad that the kids are expected to take in their electronic games so that they can sit in a classroom with 20+ other kids and play alone.

Back in the 70's, we were allowed to take in a toy or game. I took my cherished Sindy car which my best mate loved because she didn't really have dolls at home. She bought in Yahtzee, and I can still remember spending the afternoon with her, while she taught me how to play.

The teachers should say that only board/card games can be bought in so that the kids play with each other, not leave them sitting with headphones, tapping away at a screen!

balletshoes

barbiedoll wrote: »

How sad that the kids are expected to take in their electronic games so that they can sit in a classroom with 20+ other kids and play alone.

Back in the 70's, we were allowed to take in a toy or game. I took my cherished Sindy car which my best mate loved because she didn't really have dolls at home. She bought in Yahtzee, and I can still remember spending the afternoon with her, while she taught me how to play.

The teachers should say that only board/card games can be bought in so that the kids play with each other, not leave them sitting with headphones, tapping away at a screen!

the OP said they can take in consumer electronics, not that they have to. I'd do the same as others have suggested - let her take in a board game etc, she won't be the only one.

Takeaway_Addict

Not sure why you have the hump with the school, if it gets broken it would have been down to you letting her take it there and her not looking after it.

Janepig

My two often ask to take stuff to school - DS asks nearly every day if he can take his football in. He's also always asking to wear his trainers. But if I don't want him to then I say no, it's easy!! I couldn't care less if all the other boys in his class wear trainers (they don't) he's not wearing them unless it's PE day.

I can't say they've ever had a day when they've been able to take games and stuff in, but if they did then they wouldn't take in any of their electronic stuff, I wouldn't trust the other kids, never mind my own! They both go to breakfast club in the mornings and they've got quite afew games there that they can play after they've eaten - uno, frustration, draughts, cards - and mine have asked for all of them to play at home because they've enjoyed playing them at school so much.

Jx

GwylimT

We've always had a games day at the end of the school terms, I cannot remember a time when there wasn't game boys and competitions to see who could get the highest score, win the most mariokart races etc. Something we also do every Friday lunch time, including some pupils who even bring in an xbox or ps3.

If you don't want her to take it you shouldn't have let her, I don't see how not taking a DS would equate to a day off school either.