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Kids ordering Uber eats to school...

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Dontbeadickkkkk · 25/05/2019 09:33

Do your DC do this?!

We’ve had another email from the school reminding us that Dc are not allowed to order food to the school. DD says it’s unenforceable because there is a main road which runs along the school field and the kids order it to the fence!

She says loads of them do order McD etc but quite a few get deliveries from the local sandwich shop/deli or subway

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TheStakeIsNotThePower · 25/05/2019 09:53

The mind boggles. My kids don't have the cash to do this and are not allowed to have their phones out on school grounds anyway.

Faffandahalf · 25/05/2019 09:57

What the hell?!

You obviously live in a very privileged area OP. Of course most kids don’t do this. They don’t have the money! It’s bloody expensive getting a takeaway.

Anyway the school is far to lax. The majority of schools have a phone ban on school premises. Isn’t anyone monitoring the playground?

As above the mind boggles and I’m a secondary school teacher. Our kids would never do this. They’re too poor and also they would have phones confiscated in a heartbeat and food turned away.

Faffandahalf · 25/05/2019 09:57

Typo *too lax obv not ‘to’

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TheInvestigator · 25/05/2019 09:59

We used to get Pizza Hut delivered to the main office entrance and we’d stand there to pick it up! The only thing any teacher ever did was ask for a slice!

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Dontbeadickkkkk · 25/05/2019 10:04

Yes the school has a phone ban. All the kids have their phones on them though. I don’t suppose it’s difficult to put a mass order in whilst you’re in the loo!

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ravensrivers · 25/05/2019 10:05

Our 6th formers sometimes order pizza in for lunch on special occasions but we're two minutes walk from the high street where there a lot of takeaways, fast food places and wee cafes so most of the kids just walk up their for lunch anyway rather than eating in the school.

ravensrivers · 25/05/2019 10:08

Walk up there rather

Dvg · 25/05/2019 10:14

I remember doing this at school with pizza, we would order pizza as the cafe was gross and the shops were miles away so would pre order it. I don't see anything wrong with it depending on age and seem as the drivers arnt coming onto the site.

we were allowed to go off site for example to the shops or home if we wanted so why not get the food brought to you instead.

OhMsBeliever · 25/05/2019 10:20

When I order Uber eats it always reminds me on a pop up that they don't deliver to schools. Is that not a nationwide thing? How do they get round it? You can't order food to a fence, you need a postal address.

Winterfellismyhome · 25/05/2019 10:21

On uber eats, Mcdonalds say they wont deliver to schools Hmm

Thinkinghappythoughts · 25/05/2019 10:24

It has been known at the school I used to work in. Private school. Kids definitely had enough money and phones were always in their pockets. Kids got told off.

However with some kids it was the parents that were the problem. We went to the science museum in the city centre for a year 10 trip. We found half of the year eating McDonald's in the foyer for lunch. One of the parents treated a student and her gang (obviously very popular) to lunch. The head of science went ballistic. Not sure if she had the guts to bawl out the parent though.

freshstartnewme · 25/05/2019 10:27

We went to the science museum in the city centre for a year 10 trip. We found half of the year eating McDonald's in the foyer for lunch. One of the parents treated a student and her gang (obviously very popular) to lunch. The head of science went ballistic. Not sure if she had the guts to bawl out the parent though.

Ok, eating in the foyer of the science museum isn't acceptable, but I don't see what is wrong with a parent buying lunch for some kids on a trip? Ours usually go off for an hour on trips to get lunch.

freshstartnewme · 25/05/2019 10:28

Most of our youngers get the seniors to pick up McDonald's and bring it back. They are struggling just now because the 6th years have all left and the 5th years don't have any drivers yet!

ScreamingValenta · 25/05/2019 10:32

In my day, we had to walk to the chippy at lunchtime.

Modern youth Grin

Thinkinghappythoughts · 25/05/2019 10:33

Because the kids were told to bring lunch and no going into town. But it was the sheer obnoxiousness of it that made the school look bad. The museum had it's own cafe. It is okay for parents to bring the odd grated carrot for a toddler but not for school kids to bring in fast food and either stuff the bins or leave Macdonald's rubbish everywhere.

Ivegotthree · 25/05/2019 10:33

So shocking! Our DC's school has a phone ban and the children stick to it! Plus it's got proper electric gates etc so no way would Uber men get in

TwinklyMummaLuvsHerBubba89 · 25/05/2019 10:37

My eldest goes to high school. They do sports day at an athletics venue in town (having sold off their playing fields). They are allowed to take money for lunch. There are burger vans available. However they all order food on uber of deliveroo to the venue.

It's appalling.

We aren't a wealthy school either, we live in a very low socio-economic catchment. School takes the view that the students are in and engaged, so they pick their battles.

My mind boggles.

pearldeodorant · 25/05/2019 10:40

Back in late 2000s we were in trouble for ordering dominos to our school gate. It was a bit unfair as we all had compulsory school lunches but on some days there were governors lunches so we were packed off to our classrooms to eat packed lunches in there. Dominos seemed much more exciting at the time.

I remember our headmistress saying "in an exam girls I would award you 100% for initiative but 0% for your execution. From my office I saw everything" Grin

NunoGoncalves · 25/05/2019 11:07

I would never have been able to afford it. If you don't want your kids doing it, don't give them enough money to buy it.

Lydja · 25/05/2019 11:11

Do they all have bank cards and such?? Since I’m not able to order anything off Deliveroo or Uber eats without bank details but maybe that’s only in Ireland, just eat however does allow cash sometimes depending on the place but doesn’t do Mac Donald’s..

calpop · 25/05/2019 11:11

I am equally horrified and impressed at their ingenuity. I was similary horror-pressed at my son's school recently when there was an unexpected public transport failure and fleets of ubers started turning up at 3.45.

NunoGoncalves · 25/05/2019 11:15

I don't think being able to use uber is particularly impressive tbh calpop.

stucknoue · 25/05/2019 11:16

My dd does occasionally (well Deliveroo or pizza) but it's a boarding school and they are sixth formers on a Sunday night, school rules are only allowed between 4 & 9pm on Sundays, strictly enforced.

calpop · 25/05/2019 11:17

Good for you. I'm impressed at them embracing the modern world and technology we have given them. I think young teenagers have have way more to deal with than when I was that age and was dropped off and picked up on a school bus every day.

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Dontbeadickkkkk · 25/05/2019 11:21

I don’t know how they get around the school ban! DD says they just order it to the road and put school fence in the comments 🤷‍♀️

Presume they have bank cards saved in the app or their parents cards!

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