Black market tuck shop kid
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Anyone see this on the news? http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s...
Basically;
school has healthy eating policy. Kid decides to bring in sweets, etc to sell to other kids. Makes £60 a day. Gets suspended. Returns, carries on selling crap despite warnings from parents. Racks up 10 days of suspensions. Parents whine it's too harsh.
apparently he was inspired by dragons den and the apprentice but despite his parents supposedly stopping him he buys from 'bulk discount stores'. Do the likes of macro and cash and carry allow kids to open an account?
so, entrepreneurial or opportunistic little s
t?
Basically;
school has healthy eating policy. Kid decides to bring in sweets, etc to sell to other kids. Makes £60 a day. Gets suspended. Returns, carries on selling crap despite warnings from parents. Racks up 10 days of suspensions. Parents whine it's too harsh.
apparently he was inspired by dragons den and the apprentice but despite his parents supposedly stopping him he buys from 'bulk discount stores'. Do the likes of macro and cash and carry allow kids to open an account?
so, entrepreneurial or opportunistic little s
t?
DonkeyApple said:
To quote modern parlance: 'your mother' 
This, to be honest, is the key to seemingly a lot of youth issues. We are certainly given the impression that too many parents are failing to take responsibility for their offspring as well as failing to accept that education starts and is finished in the home, with the school taking care of various middle bits, not the entire responsibility.
With parents pushing so much of their job onto the school system the system has responding instead of pushing back strongly but by giving in and trying to take on this responsibility.
To be honest, it is nice to see a school in the media actually enforcing its rules. However silly some rules are within the school environment they all serve to form a broad framework and guidance within which to operate as well as showing children that rules, especially silly rules, will exist when they leave and become taxpayers. And children can learn at an early age how to opererate within or circumnavigate rules.
The parents should be very proud of their child's spirit but at the same time should ultimately concede to the rules and wishes of the school. Or, even better, sit down with the school and work out a smart solution, such as legitimising the 'shop', regulating what it can sell, skimming a fee and letting kids earn an income from fitting in work around school. That would probably be immensely educational and inspiring for the kids.
But he's only achieved this because the school has a healthy eating policy. If they didn't have that policy the school would simply be the ones selling sThis, to be honest, is the key to seemingly a lot of youth issues. We are certainly given the impression that too many parents are failing to take responsibility for their offspring as well as failing to accept that education starts and is finished in the home, with the school taking care of various middle bits, not the entire responsibility.
With parents pushing so much of their job onto the school system the system has responding instead of pushing back strongly but by giving in and trying to take on this responsibility.
To be honest, it is nice to see a school in the media actually enforcing its rules. However silly some rules are within the school environment they all serve to form a broad framework and guidance within which to operate as well as showing children that rules, especially silly rules, will exist when they leave and become taxpayers. And children can learn at an early age how to opererate within or circumnavigate rules.
The parents should be very proud of their child's spirit but at the same time should ultimately concede to the rules and wishes of the school. Or, even better, sit down with the school and work out a smart solution, such as legitimising the 'shop', regulating what it can sell, skimming a fee and letting kids earn an income from fitting in work around school. That would probably be immensely educational and inspiring for the kids.
te to kids as was the case when I was at school. What he's done is nothing new, as has been stated on here, when I was at school there was also a black market in cigarettes and porn mags.
Here's another enterprising young lad who maximised his profits by robbing Burtons biscuits;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8231530/Boy...
I don't think 'letting kids earn an income' fitting in work around school is a particularly good idea as who decides who gets to work in the tuck shop earning and who doesn't? You can imagine the outcry if some kids weren't allowed that opportunity but others were. Besides which, as I said, if the school was going to drop it's healthy eating policy they'd simply monopolise the tuck shop for themselves.
mantis84 said:
I assume you're referring to a thread I started following some particularly hefty racist abuse? In which at no point did I 'cry' about being insulted?
Come on Oakey, don't be silly. People in glass houses and all that...
Erm, you started it, not me. We were having a sensible discussion before you rode in on your bandwagon. Come on Oakey, don't be silly. People in glass houses and all that...
mantis84 said:
Sense of humour bypass today? 
I admit my wit is not quite rapier-sharp or cutting-edge, but it was just a little stab at a joke about how you would enforce your suggested protection racket. 'Tis the cut-throat world of PH we live in I suppose.
Which would have been fair enough had it been used in a witty manner but it came across as someone responding smilarily with 'oxo tower' or 'nuke from orbit' in an attempt to fit in. I admit my wit is not quite rapier-sharp or cutting-edge, but it was just a little stab at a joke about how you would enforce your suggested protection racket. 'Tis the cut-throat world of PH we live in I suppose.
Besides which, school bullying sort of goes along the lines of "Give us your money or you get a smack in the face". Let's at least be realsitic.
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