Schoolboy makes £14K

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Got to hand it to him really...

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greate...

- but maybe introduce some healthier stuff to keep it, er, 'sustainable'...

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Perhaps because the headmaster is envious and/or the boy makes him feel a bit of a chump?

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(EFA: Interesting, the post about how it's akin to selling drugs and saying he made £200 from selling conkers when he was 9 has been removed)

First, the parallel with drugs is a non-starter. Sweets are not drugs.

Second, the Head could suggest that the boy alters his product range (as I inferred above). The other pupils get products the school is unable or unwilling to supply, and the boy gets the funds to study at Oxford or Cambridge.

The Head also may be peeved that there was £14K profit that, had he thought about it, could have been channeled into school funds instead. (And maybe he didn't go to Oxford or Cambridge and is thoroughly annnoyed at having rings run round him my a mere boy, who knows. But there is usually a real reason under the stated one.)

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gregf40 said:

It's no different to dealing drugs in the real world.

Ah, you've moved the drug-selling theme to the 'real world'. But it's still not a valid comparison.

gregf40 said:

Saying the head may be peeved the kid is making £14k that the school could have made is also a silly thing to say.

We'll never know what the Head really thinks, so we'll never know if my suggestion is right or wrong. It's merely a possibility.

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gregf40 said:

I've not moved the drug dealing theme in to the real world at all.

I'm sorry, when you said 'real world' I read it as 'real world'.

gregf40 said:

I'm making the point that the school environment is not 'the real world' and the rules set by the school are like the laws we are set by the government.

Why do you not believe it is a valid comparison - you have given no reason or argument why I am wrong.

Because school rules are not the same as the laws of Great Britain. The latter are set by Government after due debate by 600 MPs. The former are made by a Headmaster. And selling sweets is not the same - whether you like it or not - the same as selling drugs. If it was, the boy would be in a detention centre now. And he isn't, so it isn't

Perhaps the Head should have asked him to make 50% of his range 'healthy' and donate 10% of the profit to the school book fund by way of a trading licence... everybody wins...