To think that it is the job of the lunchtime supervisors to clean the lunch hall, not year 6 pupils?

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DS came home from school today telling me that there has been a new rule implemented for lunchtimes. Apparently, each week two year 6 pupils will sweep and clean the floor of the hall at the end of lunchtime. Poor DS was almost sick after being one of the 2 chosen for this week.

I find it appalling actually, tbh. Not because I think "oh precious DS shouldn't be clearing up" but because it is hardly fair to expect 2 children to clean up after 100 children have eaten.

AIBU to think that this is a job for the lunchtime supervisors and not two 10/11 year old children?

AIBU to tell the headmistress that DS will not be doing this job this week nor for the remainder of his time in the school?

That's what I thought Kurri-people are underestimating how much they like pushing those big brushes around! If you asked for volunteers I expect loads of hands would go up! People are looking at it through adult eyes.

tbh my ds would not be one of the ones whooping for joy at getting at the big brooms- but that is exactly why I think he should do it

Mine wouldn't volunteer either, cory, so I wouldn't mind them being press-ganged!

And you know what? After 2 boys have razzed around with two huge brooms, I bet the lunch time supervisers still have to finish off the job properly.

This must be the most precious thread ever.

Next posters will be complaining that their child had been assigned the ordeal of milk monitor, light switch monitor or that children are being asked to put their chair on the table at the end of the day.

well people, thank you so much for your comments.

It is interesting to note that the policy has now been withdrawn. And the staff are doing the clearing up.

FYI: DS! and DS2 do clean up after themselves at home after eating. THis is a simple task for them because they are not little pigs who eat like animals therefore they can take away their plates and that is pretty much it.

my son will make a shite father because he can't clean up other kids crap off the floor........niiiice.

oh good god - I hadn't kept up with this thread - but have just come in and seen the OP's latest comment

My Ds had to do this kind of thing in year 6; mucking the slops into a bucket. I didn't mind, except that he then had to miss his music (instrument) lesson each week for a whole half term which I had paid for

If it is the way things work in school then not too bad - altho' agree that doing it for a day rather than a week would be better, especially in the summer if you end up being the ones that don't get to play in the really nice weather - or in the winter if you miss the week it snows... (or maybe you are not allowed out for that these days? )

I also wonder if having more than 2 kids doing it would make it better for them - having 4 kids do it might make it all go much faster and make it more fun for all, even if their turn does then come around twice as often.

However, i would be furious if it meant that my child was missing a paid for music lesson - if the school is happy for music lessons to happen during the lunch period and to take money (even if it then goes to the music teacher), to prevent a child from going to their music lessons for a whole half term is very wrong. SSSS - did you complain to the school - did they do anything about it? TBH I wouldn't want a refund, I'd want my child to get the lessons! And to rota them for hall sweeping duty a different day. Or find a different job if that wasn't possible...

Well done love, you've sucessfully taught your children to squeal lould enough and all the nasty stuff in life goes away. A valuable lesson.

Did I mention my d**k of a bil who stopped his daughter riding because she was expected to tack up her own pony?

His exact words -
"I don't pay good money for my daughter to do grunt work"

Interesting to see that the people who take hall cleaning as a natural and unobjectionable chore are the ones with experience of the private/boarding school side of education. Perhaps our state schools do shield our children too much from the realities in life.

reminds me of my younger days when I worked in archaeology, a job that involved not only shovelling through mud and digging up the cesspits of yore, but also little tasks like carrying slop buckets and clearing away rubbish dumps

an incident that has stuck in my mind was when a new recruit was told to sweep out the old derelict building that we were going to use as our site hut

he refused with the words "I do have a degree, you know"

it did not occur to him that the rest of us had degrees too, not to mention many years of experience, and that this was a job that simply needed to be done

clearly nothing in his previous life had prepared him for the day when broom wielding fairies failed to appear by magic to save him from a task that was below him

shall we say that he did not last long...

'Did I mention my d**k of a bil who stopped his daughter riding because she was expected to tack up her own pony?

His exact words -
"I don't pay good money for my daughter to do grunt work" '

Did you tell him Zara Phillips, daughter of a princess, has been well-known to tack up her own animals and mucks out their stalls?

HE was sick becuase he had to tidy up
aw diddums

think you sound fod phobic and precious.
get your son to grow a backbone tbh
you WAIT till secondary school - youll be there all the bloddy time

or sets fire to the school table with a bunsen burner?

do they still dissect things in biology?