Pupils given detention because parents can't afford.....
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Does that imply that people are expected to pay for a full term of school lunches up front? For some families, with more than one kid especially that looks unduly harsh.
I used to get the text messages from our daughters school. Eventually got pissed off with the constant demands for money and redirected them to my wife (probably where it should have been in the first place!).
I used to get the text messages from our daughters school. Eventually got pissed off with the constant demands for money and redirected them to my wife (probably where it should have been in the first place!).
“01 June 2016
“Dear Families,
“The deadline for this term’s lunch payments was 1st June 2016. You are now one week over due.
“You are currently £75 overdue. If this full amount is not received within this week your child will be placed in Lunch Isolation from Monday 13th June 2016.
“They will receive a Sandwich and piece of fruit only. They will spend the entire sixty minutes period in lunch isolation.
“Only when the entire outstanding sum is paid in full will they be allowed into family lunch with their classmates.”
Thanks Barry. Some observations.
You write the first date as 01 June 2016, then use 1st June and 13th June. Both types of date are acceptable. However, style should be consistent.
You use over due initially then use overdue. The first means above due. That is nonsense.
‘If this full amount is not received within this week’ If the full amount is not received by . . . Picky criticism, but shouldn’t deputy heads set examples?
Neither lunch not isolation should have an initial capital; nor should sandwich in the next sentence.
‘entire sixty minutes period’ is a pleonasm. Sixty minutes is a period of time.
And ‘entire sum is paid in full’ is one also. Entire sum is paid, or, the sum is paid in full. It is not difficult.
If the chap was being paid by the word then I would have some sympathy. However, it would be very little.
On a more contentious note, ‘a sandwich and piece of fruit only’ is to be avoided. There are two items so only is incorrect. ‘just a sandwich and a piece of fruit’ reads much better.
Further, while emphasis by bold type is not something to be avoided utterly, overuse of it is.
I would be upset by the lack of readable signature: very poor and lackadaisical.
“Dear Families,
“The deadline for this term’s lunch payments was 1st June 2016. You are now one week over due.
“You are currently £75 overdue. If this full amount is not received within this week your child will be placed in Lunch Isolation from Monday 13th June 2016.
“They will receive a Sandwich and piece of fruit only. They will spend the entire sixty minutes period in lunch isolation.
“Only when the entire outstanding sum is paid in full will they be allowed into family lunch with their classmates.”
Thanks Barry. Some observations.
You write the first date as 01 June 2016, then use 1st June and 13th June. Both types of date are acceptable. However, style should be consistent.
You use over due initially then use overdue. The first means above due. That is nonsense.
‘If this full amount is not received within this week’ If the full amount is not received by . . . Picky criticism, but shouldn’t deputy heads set examples?
Neither lunch not isolation should have an initial capital; nor should sandwich in the next sentence.
‘entire sixty minutes period’ is a pleonasm. Sixty minutes is a period of time.
And ‘entire sum is paid in full’ is one also. Entire sum is paid, or, the sum is paid in full. It is not difficult.
If the chap was being paid by the word then I would have some sympathy. However, it would be very little.
On a more contentious note, ‘a sandwich and piece of fruit only’ is to be avoided. There are two items so only is incorrect. ‘just a sandwich and a piece of fruit’ reads much better.
Further, while emphasis by bold type is not something to be avoided utterly, overuse of it is.
I would be upset by the lack of readable signature: very poor and lackadaisical.
If you knew when the deadline was and couldn't afford it, you have three things to do.
1)Apply for free school meals
2)If that doesn't work, ring the school and explain the situation
3)Prepare sandwiches
It would appear that this parent decided to do none of those things. That really is extreme fecklessness.
1)Apply for free school meals
2)If that doesn't work, ring the school and explain the situation
3)Prepare sandwiches
It would appear that this parent decided to do none of those things. That really is extreme fecklessness.
davepoth said:
If you knew when the deadline was and couldn't afford it, you have three things to do.
1)Apply for free school meals
2)If that doesn't work, ring the school and explain the situation
3)Prepare sandwiches
It would appear that this parent decided to do none of those things. That really is extreme fecklessness.
I agree.1)Apply for free school meals
2)If that doesn't work, ring the school and explain the situation
3)Prepare sandwiches
It would appear that this parent decided to do none of those things. That really is extreme fecklessness.
Completely out of order to punish the child though.
I wish that'd been tried on me back in the day. It'd have been worth persuading my parents to deliberately not pay just for the fun I could have had with that one. (I was a bit of a rebellious child)
zarjaz1991 said:
I agree.
Completely out of order to punish the child though.
It's just a threat of punishing the child though. This gives the parents a week in which they can do any of the three things above to avoid the potential punishment. Completely out of order to punish the child though.
Even then, I'm not certain it's a punishment to the child, long term. The earlier it learns that the way it's being raised is sub-standard, the better.
Jonesy23 said:
Some people on here have some very strange ideas.
I can't see that any situation should exist where a child is put on a punishment routine for a payment being late by a week.
Payment was late by a week and it was a warning that there would be punishment a week later, not punishment as such. If the parents still couldn't be arsed to do anything about it (and as I outlined above there are several things they could do that didn't mean paying) then it's their problem IMO.I can't see that any situation should exist where a child is put on a punishment routine for a payment being late by a week.
davepoth said:
If you knew when the deadline was and couldn't afford it, you have three things to do.
1)Apply for free school meals
2)If that doesn't work, ring the school and explain the situation
3)Prepare sandwiches
It would appear that this parent decided to do none of those things. That really is extreme fecklessness.
1) you still have to pay until the application is approved1)Apply for free school meals
2)If that doesn't work, ring the school and explain the situation
3)Prepare sandwiches
It would appear that this parent decided to do none of those things. That really is extreme fecklessness.
2) Fair enough, but reading the website they don't seem the most flexible.
3) not allowed.
"We are a vegetarian school. All pupils attend family lunch daily. There are no exceptions. There are no packed lunches at Michaela. No food or drink is to be brought on to the school site. This includes all sweets, snacks, drinks and chewing gum. The school provides morning and afternoon snacks for all pupils as well as a two course lunch."
Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 30th July 01:06
davepoth said:
Payment was late by a week and it was a warning that there would be punishment a week later, not punishment as such. If the parents still couldn't be arsed to do anything about it (and as I outlined above there are several things they could do that didn't mean paying) then it's their problem IMO.
why cant they "pay as you go"?It's not a private school.
tty.Looking at their rules and some of their blogs I was half expecting the uniform policy to say the sole retailer was Hugo Boss.
It's like some fascists utopian ideal of how to raise children, not by teaching but just by enforcement.
Little details like being purely vegetarian just make the alarm bells ring louder.
It's like some fascists utopian ideal of how to raise children, not by teaching but just by enforcement.
Little details like being purely vegetarian just make the alarm bells ring louder.
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