Had an unexpected phone called from DS's school.
All year 7's were given a survey and my sons answers indicated that we might be in need and the school were offering friendly help. It turns out that the questions that he responded no to were:
Do we have a dishwasher
Do we have a microwave
How many holidays abroad has DS had this year.
AIBU that these are not an indicator or poverty. I have never seen dishwashers or microwaves as necessary.
Both I had in the past and never used them. It is personal choice not to own them and we do perfectly well without.
As for the holidays, why is going abroad necessary when we have amazing places in the UK. Fair enough if they said holiday in the last 2 years but for all they know, I may have had 6 holidays last year.
I work in education so not knocking the school as we see these things all the time but this had to be the most ridiculous one to date.
The school said that it was fine and it was just to flag those needed help and they couldn't ask the children if their parents struggled to pay bills.
What do you think? Are these questions useful?
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AIBU?
To think that these are not signs that we live in poverty.
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Tweedledeedumb · 19/10/2019 09:43
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