to ask the school WHY if 'sweets aren't allowed' ...

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'to be handed out on birthdays' (we had to go hunting for shit cheap toys, erasers etc, as we got a letter asking parents not to bring sweets in on their childs birthdays but " a nice pad or pencil set" would be accepted ( )

Then WHYYYY did the teachers give out freddo bars on the last day today??

Surely if parents have been told not to do this (and instead of going to the newsagents and buying 30 x 10p sweet bags like we hoped to we had to get the frigging bus to Asda and spend around £7 on tat) then the teachers shouldn't be doing it either??

I have NO PROBLEM with sweets being given out BTW.

I have a problem with being told not to do it myself then the school handing out sweets!!

(Don't even get me started on jam rolly polly and custard for pud if a bag of 10p haribo aren't allowed)_

Hand them out in the playground after the kids get released instead, (SUBVERSIVE here).

Birthday sweets will get handed out 2-3x a month in a class of 30, given that some of them don't bother or might give out pencils instead. That's not truly excessive, is it? Loads of kids are met by parents with sweets every day after school, from what I've seen.

I wouldn't complain to school but I would have a good smirk about the inconsistency of it all.

I know what you mean OP. Our school is supposedly a healthy school and so no sweets to be given out etc on birtdays by parents but after the schools inspectors had been round all the kids got a lollipop for being good OMG!!! Double standards

On birthdays it is written in schools handbook (who reads that anyway) that if you do bring in cakes then make sure there is enough for whole class so cakes are apparently ok. You can't win.

Oh and chocolate santas on lolly sticks were given out at end of term last week by DD class teacher! Oh yes and one child brought in a candy cane lolly for each child in year 2 which was also allowed tho DD teacher is an NQT so may not know the rules. No one minded though as far as i could see.

Its not the school fault its the moaning precious parents

Thank God we're an UNhealthy school