To be frustrated with the school about the Easter egg situation?

I can imagine OPs house being full of nibbled eggs and egg packaging, it's bad enough just for one day.

God forbid other people do things so your kids have a nice childhood while you're too "busy" to even do the bare minimum. I still remember some of the fun things that I did at school, sad that you don't, but hopefully your kids will.

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🙄 of all the things to moan about. Why have your kids been having Easter eggs for weeks? You win, most stupid post of the day if this is real

I would imagine it goes

• as many kids as possible bring egg in;
• school also buy eggs from Costco or similar;
• eggs are numbered with raffle ticket;
• child pays say 50p for ticket then finds egg with number on.

So the margin on buying tickets is where the school’s profit comes from. Otherwise it would be an egg exchange which would be fun but probably not make any money!!

Why on earth have your kids been eating Easter eggs since the beginning of March? Easter is still weeks away.

This sounds like a lovely thing for school to do, though I agree the veiled threat that if you don't contribute your child will be left out is unnecessary.

100% this! The school and pta just want the kids to have a nice experience and to make a bit of money for the school.

So your kids have been having Easter eggs since early March but now you can't afford them, so who has been buying your kids them in the first place?

Yep it really winds me up when parents complain so much about schools asking for stuff. If you’re at a decent school with engaged teachers/ an active PTA/ a nice programme of events you should be grateful. The school/ PTA are just trying to do nice stuff to make your kids happy or enhance their education, they’re not trying to wind parents up!

All it takes is spending 10 minutes a week to put things into the phone and/ or read the fucking newsletter. Plus 90% of the time the people bleating on about this are the ones who aren’t working and/ or spend the time clogging up the WhatsApp with petty complaints instead of volunteering to do something useful like join the PTA or become a Governor.

We ask allergy parents to donate their own child’s special egg if they want to participate. And of course we’re allowed to put on an Easter egg hunt with school’s input, what rule do you think would stop us? The teachers will work together with us in the morning to make sure the egg sizes roughly correspond to the kids ages (I suspect/hope the donated ones will mostly be the small 98p type anyway). The moneymaking comes from the (optional) donation we ask for alongside the egg. Obviously not everyone will donate that but if even half the parents do it raises a bit of money for the school and the kids have got to enjoy a low cost celebration of a religious event on the last day of term.

Schools have no money so PTAs have to be creative. Yes they could just ask for donations from patents but most parents aren't going to donate for nothing. The PTA probably think it's just a nice thing to do for the kids but there is always going to be someone who moans. Probably the same parents who will moan when the school has no equipment.

Honestly all the mental effort you've expanded moaning on mumsnet could have been used to quickly buy a few eggs. Yes there is a lot at the end of term but that's just part and parcel of being a parent.

Our school has a similar event and as PTA Chair I’ve just been to the supermarket - obviously after my own busy day at my full time job, nursery and school runs, feeding and putting my young kids to bed - to buy enough Easter eggs to make up the (slight) shortfall in donations, so all the kids get to do an egg hunt tomorrow and to raise money for great things for the school that it couldn’t otherwise afford. I suspect your PTA will do the same OP. I absolutely understand people deciding they don’t have the capacity (mental, financial, whatever) to participate but I have to say it’s a bit tough to swallow that some people will go further than that and actively criticise PTA committee members in these scenarios.

Just donate the egg ffs

Theyre hardly expensive

Why are your kids eating Easter eggs so long before Easter? Surely the point of Easter eggs is you get them at Easter? Ok they might eat the one from school, the one from scouts or whatever before the day, but basically it’s a novelty because they haven’t eaten them for months/ weeks on end beforehand.

You could buy a cheap £1 egg.
Your DC children have been eating eggs already? This is quite unusual.

Yeah, that whole having to contribute to something if you want to participate in it thing is really shit. Who’d want to set that example to their kids?

And yes, Easter eggs are still eaten at Easter in our house.

You shouldn't just assume thar when OP hasn't said it's not the case

I think the event sounds confusing as you are basically suggesting kids donate an egg and receive an egg...where is the money to be made in that?

I assume this is a PTA thing as you mention a raffle. They is no need to take part. I am assuming the PTA will be requesting eggs for the stall. They will then sell tickets and children will then win the donated goods.
I assume therefore not everyone will take part as not everyone will take money or want to (as you say, there are often so many things that I don't do it all and will say no to my children).

I don't see how a school would be doing an egg donation just because. Parents would be donating different size eggs so who would decide who got the biggest eggs (those the school knows who are least likely to get an egg? Those who are the top students in school? Those who try but struggle with school?, not all children can have chocolate eggs so is an alternative being arranged for them (sometimes our PTA just say not on this occasion so those kids can't join in) and I don't think schools themselves would be allowed to promote this kind of unhealthy eating. One year the PTA gave all children a book as a present at Christmas time but i have never heard of chocolate on this scale being given out.

I would check the details of the event and then not feel guilty about not taking part if you don't want to as I expect it is all optional.

Oh OP.. What on earth are you whinging about! Sounds like a bit of fun for the Children, get yourself off to Poundland and buy a few Eggs

It's a pound ....if you have been giving your kids easter eggs since the start of March then you can probably afford a pound .
It's nice the school do these things . They are making an effort to do something fun for the kids

”It’s nice of school to do something!!”

There are always comments like this.

It’s not “nice” at all, if you have two working parents and a busy life. It’s a PITA. Red nose day, Easter bonnet day, mother’s day breakfast, bring your own this, make your own that, £5 donation for this, parents come in at 10.30am for that.

I have to imagine posters who think these types of event are “nice” have no life outside their child’s school.

Some people do have a life, and it’s too damn much.

Didn’t have all this shite when we were children.

You sound like one of those parents that moans about everything but doesn’t actually want to get involved to help the school just to criticise what they do try to do and what you’ve said gives the impression your children are spoiled. Sorry!

Again contradiction your saying about the hole early Easter thing yet your kids have been eating Easter eggs since March, stop digging.

While complaining about how she might not have loads of eggs, or money to buy eggs, while sitting on a mountain of eggs!

I’ll probably just donate one of the ones we’ve got, stop stressing over it, and focus on the fact that my kids are still excited for the whole Easter thing, even if it’s not as “special” as it used to be.

Its only not special because you’ve been giving them Easter eggs to eat for weeks already!