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

[tulpe]

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?

actually that was probably just me being cruel, I don't think they do dissect much these days

but dd did set fire to the table with the bunsen burner

and he will miss lunch one day due to a detention/crap personal oragnisation

youll be like a yo yo

dd did some welding the other day- I thought it rather late not to have done things like that until Yr 9

by the time I was 10, I had worked the electric woodturning lathe and done both welding and enamelling (with a gas burner) and was getting quite used to the sewing machine- it was just expected of us at school

and we had to sweep up after every crafts lesson

and gut the fish in cookery lessons

At least fish are big! We had to turn up early to school to gut prawns for cookery, took forever.

I was terrified of welding - soooo scared. And off the woodturning lathe, especially as the woodwork teacher was missing fingers.

I wonder if the OP bothered to read my link to souji in Japan. Did me no harm.

YANBU.
1 Playtime is for playing
2 Staff are paid to do it
3It needs to be done properly
3 some kids/adults 9me included)would barf at this.Nothing to do with age

IF you barf at sweeping a floor, then I think you might find a fair few professions closed to you. Including (from the evidence on this thread) that of teaching.

YABU

Sounds like a great idea to me.

Its on a rota. He does not have to do it every school day.

Oh my goodness...just read more of the thread.

What a shame the school has been so spineless and not stood up to overly precious anal parents.

The world has gone absolutely mad if our poor little children can't share responsibility for the upkeep of their school.

well, that's settled then. apparently unhinged parents can change school policy by being precious.

thank your lucky stars i'm not a governor at your primary school, op.

Way to go OP. You've just taught your son to run to mummy every time he doesn't like doing something. That and a combination of a prissy precious mother and a spineless school makes for unpleasant reading. Hope you're happy with your result.

I wonder how impressed his peers will be when they find out that something they enjoyed has been taken away because a spoiled child moaned to mummy. It doesn't bode well for the future and I really do feel for his future girlfriends if they have to contend with you. God help them if they expect him to clear up after himself.

I've just read the OP out to my 13 year old daughter (who, incidentally, swept the floor and cleaned up in the dining hall in her school in year 7). Her response?

"How will he cope in the real world? He'll still be living with Mummy when he's 44!".

That's my girl! :o

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Do you not understand the concept of phobia???

I wish my Yr6 dd1 had to do jobs like this at school. It's good for kids to learn to clear up after themselves and others rather than expecting everything to be done for them. My friend went to school in Zambia, they had to clean the school including scrubbing the loos!

don't get the point of your remark, oldinboden- surely a child who has a genuine phobia can get a doctor's letter - is that a reason not to make healthy children help with clearing up after themselves?

YABU Lunchtime supervisors are just that, not cleaners. It never harmed a child to be taught some responsibility. As for the being sick - FFS its sweeping a floor not eating off it.

i still think that playtime should be used for playing, not being precious or thinking it's beneath kids to sweep floor, just trying to stand up for their rights to play.

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

Not the context you meant it in OP but actually true. Surely that is part and parcel of being a parent??

DS 6.2 has to hoover under the table if a mess is made due to carelessness - doesn't stop him making a mess tho and certainly has never made him barf

for all those feeling that the boy will make a poor father because he can't clear up and cope with grunge.
Seriously, I'd have thought the prospective MIL would be enough to doom any relationship.