My daughter has started reception year at her school and I'm shocked at how much money, time, sweets and other associated things the school have asked for, not including book fairs, cake baking, walking here and there with the kids etc. I have no doubt that this will get worse as time goes on.
Now maybe it's my age but I don't remember it being like that when I was at school and I don't feel I missed out...well maybe not being picked to be an angel... that's another story. If you couldn't afford to go on a trip you didn't go, you stayed at school, you didn't subsidise other kids to go.
I do however feel sorry for the teachers, they are asked to collect the forms for all of this other stuff, the Christmas pudding sale!... I'm not joking.Christmas cards and mugs, sweets as forfeits for things, this confuses me as you seem to pay the forfeit to come dressed up and down. Then we had a book fair which people who went were charged the RRP the school got 60% of the sales! I didn't go , however because parents came and took their children I got it in the neck from my daughter as I didn't take her.
When did school become sooo complicated, when did this change happen?
Rant over, thanks for listening!