Pupils given detention because parents can't afford.....

Pupils given detention because parents can't afford.....

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Strocky

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2,630 posts

112 months

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

122 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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But school meals are free for kids whose parents are on benefits and/or are low paid. Nevertheless this sounds like some kind of bizarre and ott debt collection scheme - humiliating a child because of the actions of their parents is a bit fked up.


AJS-

15,366 posts

235 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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I'm a pretty hard line capitalist on most things but that is stty.

Can't they just sell the debt to a collection agency or something? So that they can be hounded out of their homes by vicious thus instead?)

Löyly

17,990 posts

158 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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Teaches the kids a good lesson. Don't get into debt you can't pay.

PhillipM

6,515 posts

188 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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....otherwise someone else might get punished for your actions!

Great lesson.

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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I'd be inclined to take such a letter and insert it where a proctologist would be required to retrieve it from the headmaster..........

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

243 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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"Lunch Isolation"?

OMFG.

jules_s

4,237 posts

232 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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Einion Yrth said:
"Lunch Isolation"?

OMFG.
Only slightly bested by 'Knowledge is Power'

del mar

2,838 posts

198 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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We had similar at kids tuck shop.

The same kids never had any money, first week you might take a view second week you might make a note, third week when they are picking handfuls of sweets you say no.

Detention is hardly the end of the world, and it inconveniences the parents as well which might make them think / pay.



Strocky

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2,630 posts

112 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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Lunch isolation would only be embarrassing at lunch time, they should be made to wear a permanent mark of shame

Sheets Tabuer

18,898 posts

214 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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They should send the kids fingers to the parent one by one, they'll soon pay up.

Countdown

39,690 posts

195 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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jules_s said:
Einion Yrth said:
"Lunch Isolation"?

OMFG.
Only slightly bested by 'Knowledge is Power'
Arbeit macht frei. frown

Ms Birbalsingh is a bit nutty.

Butter Face

30,192 posts

159 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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I'd be giving my kid permission to leave school at lunch and go buy some chips hehe

Oakey

27,523 posts

215 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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Butter Face said:
I'd be giving my kid permission to leave school at lunch and go buy some chips hehe
Buy chips with what? You'd be one of the parents who doesn't send their kids to school with money to pay for lunch.

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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Do they not get free food if they can't afford to buy it?


Mastodon2

13,818 posts

164 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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Reading some of the deputy head's blog posts, it sounds like a "special" school. Silent corridors between classes, walking single file, sitting in a teacher-designed seating plan during lunch? fk that.

dxg

8,122 posts

259 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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Strocky said:
Lunch isolation would only be embarrassing at lunch time, they should be made to wear a permanent mark of shame
What, like a yellow cloth star or something?

Bristol spark

4,381 posts

182 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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Would it not be better to stop parents going into negative by going back to the more "traditional" pay as you go method.

Ie child takes money with them to buy lunch.

No money, no lunch??


If a parent cannot afford to feed their child, they are not fit to be parents surely, and social services should be involved?

Edited by Bristol spark on Friday 29th July 21:34

Sylvaforever

2,212 posts

97 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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I think "Barry" may be about to learn a hard lesson!


Butter Face

30,192 posts

159 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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Oakey said:
Butter Face said:
I'd be giving my kid permission to leave school at lunch and go buy some chips hehe
Buy chips with what? You'd be one of the parents who doesn't send their kids to school with money to pay for lunch.
Well yes, you have a point. It does seem odd that people would get behind on paying for food for their kids at school!