to not wanting to sponsor my own son?

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My 3 year old has come home from nursery with a sponsorship form to raise money for IT equipment. I work full time, have 2 kids at a private nursery full time and pay a fortune for it. I think they should buy the equipment from their profits and not blackmail me into asking friends and relatives for money. It's not like my ds is going to do it, is it? My partner disagrees but I'm really mad about about it and don't want to give them any more money than what I'm paying already!

Two weeks before the end of term, following numerous donations of money for trips and productions etc, school sent home sponsor forms for sports week asking us to sponsor the kids for running round the field in the boiling heat! I threw them in the recycling and told the kids that I had already paid lots of money for various stuff and they said "okay".
Stand your ground and don't pay.

Why does a nursery need IT equipment? YANBU.

If it's for IT equipment, the nursery should be able to get funding for it/grant especially if there are SEN children at the nursery who would also greatly benefit from its use.

Why don't they have a raffle/cake stall/summer fete etc to raise the money that way. A 3 yr old isn't really going to understand the point of a sponsored anything!

if it was for a public nursery then i would say yabu.

but childcare is expensive and tbh i wouldn't go around asking for sponsership money for a service i pay for

sponsored what?

just wondering

YANBU though

Stuff like this drives me nuts too. I wouldn't want to pay out of principle, but then you worry that your child is going to be left out. In fact, I should stop typing now, my dc's school does things like it all the time, and I HATE it. And don't get me started on Comic Relief.

a sponsored sing-along

I had similar when my daughter was at a private nursery. I refused to donate. It is different when it is a local playgroup or a school. Private nurseries are commercial concerns.

If it is a private nursery then they are taking the piss.

YANBU

Do it, but send him back with a sponsorship form for getting a new computer for your house.

Perhaps a sponsored having a nice cup of tea and a sit down...?

YANBU - if it's a private nursery they are seriously taking the p.

YANBU and even if it was for charity I would still border on YANBU.

Although I think it's good for children to do stuff for charity, these sponsored things never involve any great effort by the children beyond hitting up friends and relatives for cash- ie the sponsored activity is always pretty lame/ easy for the children to achieve.

Mind you, I also refuse to sponsor able bodied adults to walk frikkin 5k for Race4Life so just call me Ebeneezer.

YANBU especally as it is a private nursery. i hate this shit, really. Hate people hitting you up for cash. (Says she who gave £50 to a 'friend's' son to do a sponsored swim, the money of which would have sent him on a gap year trip to Ecuador and got an e-mail from so-called friend saying how upset she was i did not give him even more).

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YANBU what a cheek! I too send my daughter to a private day nursery and you're right- they aren't cheap!

Having said that, they often do days where they invite the children to wear fancy dress and pay £1 to do so. All the monet raised goes to charity. This I dont mind. It's just a pound and so what if theoretically DD could wear her tinkerbell outfit to nursery every other day with giving them a pound?

Totally agree - they are asking you to subsidise their business - Tesco doesn't do a whip round when to needs new cash registers- anyway I can't see the point of "sponsorship" at all even for charity- I don't understand why the fact that someone is doing a task should make me more willing to give money?