Every Loquacious Idiosyncrasy Treated Equally - 11+ ELITE Thread

xxlouisexx56

I'd also like to add that we are not flush, but always happy to pay for trips and when they have the theatre groups in.

I wish parents who could not afford it were more open about it. I for one would happily pay for another child to go and enjoy the day with my DD

emerald21

David. wrote: »

Preggers :eek:

Nooooo just an intolerance to most foods. Just don't know what to eat. Poor Susie

David.

fairclaire wrote: »

Well isn't the point of a strike to cause disruption? Is there any point if it doesn't?
I personally think that strikes have had their day and achieve very little. The days where employers had to give in to workers demands are sadly long gone

Better to disrupt the parents than the childrens education though

Snap-ant

The Ts home delivery crate the driver left behind has become very useful indeed.

emerald21

David. wrote: »

Always there for you Suzie

Thank you David most kind

Hi to Thick Tom if he s reading

xxlouisexx56

dipdap wrote: »

DS1 is in London today on a school trip.
We only found out about it when we got a reminder text to say they'd extended the deadline (obviously not many people wanted to go!) as DS1 had decided because money is short we couldn't afford for him to go so he didn't tell us about the trip
Needless to say we found the £25 they wanted for the trip and sent him anyway.

I'm sure it's one of those trips where the teachers fancied a day out (DD had one like that a year or so back to cadburys world) as I'm not sure what they'll be learning on a boat on the Thames with 2 weeks of school left :mad:

He's taken a tenner and is banned from buying tat so he'll probably ignore me and come home with an overpriced london bus :mad:

FC I think these schools think we're made of money :mad:

I dread my dd coming home with the foreign holiday trips! I could never go as my parents couldn't afford it and I would love for my dd's to go but they are so expensive !

Snap-ant

Raspberries still going strong

fairclaire

Postie has just brought my Clinique serum sample from boots. Or should I say he brought a Jiffy bag that has been ripped open and contains a card telling me to enjoy my sample.......which isn't there :mad:

dipdap

xxlouisexx56 wrote: »

I dread my dd coming home with the foreign holiday trips! I could never go as my parents couldn't afford it and I would love for my dd's to go but they are so expensive !

Nooooo, hadn't thought of that!
DS1 came home with a letter ages ago about a ski trip to somewhere in Europe and got told very politely 'no'
For the price they were charging I could have taken us all on the Eurostar to disney for a couple of days in a cheap hotel :eek:

I'm dreading what his next school is going to charge for trips, it's a hundred quid a month just for the bus to school and back :eek:

mhoc

fairclaire wrote: »

I know. it does make you wonder Of course, it is annoying but you pay up because you wouldn't dream of your kids missing out.
I do wonder about some of the costs of these things and how they arrive at the figures they do. This trip is to a discovery centre in Preston, so not far. The £20 is to cover the cost if the coach plus an instructor for the day. They are doing various outdoor team building activities.
There are 20 kids going. So is it really costing £400 for a short coach trip and an instructor.......who probably works there and gets paid anyway?

No point in moaning. We will always find the money and pay up for these things, and they know we will

My 3 were very close in age.
The eldest went through high school just before the Health and safety culture started so she had all of the best school trips starting with a trip to Holland In year 7. At the time they also had a teacher who organised the school skiing trips so she went twice including the Canada trip. The one trip she missed was the trip to new York - that was really going to stretch us but sadly it never happened - they were going in the October and then 9/11 happened so sadly it was cancelled.
Then eldest son came along 2 years later and he had a much more limited choice of trips - no Holland trip and one ski trip to italy.
By the time youngest son went 2 years after the choice was even worse -the ski ing teacher had left by then so he never went ski- ing or Holland. But they had a good French teacher so he was part of the exchange student scheme and he had a few trips to France.

All 3 were brownies/guides and then cubs/scouts/explorer scouts/young leaders and then it was ATC so they got involved in every activity, summer camps and weekends away - much cheaper than school organised events. They also went to squash club and badminton which again were not too expensive

I have no idea how we managed it financially on one wage but we were stink for most of 20 years - I think !!!!!! and their lenient MOC policy kept us fed. The family holidays we had were in the UK in a holiday cottage, no theme park days out and only one coach trip abroad as a family.
I think activities now are much more expensive. Mine used to go to a drama club on a Saturday morning - 2 eldest and then later the 2 younger ones and its now £10 for Saturday morning - we would never have afforded £20 a session, paid 12 weeks in advance at the start of each term.