AIBU to give stop DD1 doing her homework?

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DD1 (14) has got homework for PSHE/citizenship.
They have to bring in different newspapers and to stop duplicates teacher told class what papers to buy. (at random I'm presumming - I understand that completely)
DD1 asked if she could swap with someone - no they cant.
DD1 then said that she can't buy the paper - teacher said of course you can, get your parents to buy it. Then wouldn't hear anymore.

I know it is for school and stuff. But I just can't do it.

AIBU to give her a note and say that the paper will not be bought
Or
AIBU to tell DD1 to swap even though the teacher said not to

Because quiet frankly I will not start buying the Daily Mail now after so many years of (my whole family) refusing too (we do not entertain that paper in my family ) just because a teachers says it needs to be bought.
IAMBU aren't I ?

oh fgs

its a paper

You are not agreeing that all immigrants are bastards (or whatever glorious headline is in the paper that day) by letting DD buy the paper for one bloody day

Honestly I wonder how some of us on here manage to get throughout the day without withering into a pool of wobbly worrying insulted unreasonable little jellies it relly does....

YABU the point of the class is to discuss the tone and content if the papers. I expect she asked your DD to bring in the DM precisely because she's likely to disagree with it. Makes a more interesting discussion and educates the others. Great idea for a lesson I think and best to allocate specific paper to specific child or might end up with 30 copies of The Sun.

Irrespective of your views on the particular paper; the teacher cannot insist that chhildren have to use their own money (or their parent's money) to buy a newspaper.

Why not, starfish? Children have to use their own money (or their parents) to buy cookery ingredients, so why not ingredients for a politics discussion?

apostrophe faiiiiilll

I have not actually come across any instance of a child selling his parents into slavery to finance cookery lessons

but that might just be because I don't read the DM

starfish - the OP can easily afford the newspaper. It would be a bit snide to use that defence for not doing the homework when it is totally untrue.

and yes all you are doing here is giving your DD 'permission' to cause disruption to a class.

Interesting that "she cant buy the paper" rather than "wont buy the paper", are they those her words or yours?

are they those? WTF does that mean?

Surely the whole point of taking the newspapers to school is so that they can analyse them and critically evaluate them?

By buying one copy of the paper you stand to convert a whole classful to your way of thinking.... assuming they don't all feel that way anyway.

It's 50p or whatever it is, buy it and use it as a learning tool. Nobody is asking you to buy it every day. It is a one off and really not worth bothering over. There are plenty of other newspapers I wouldn't want in the house either like the Sun and Mirror - complete trash. If everybody decided they couldn't buy the paper they were chosen to buy it would be a pointless exercise and nobody would get the benefit of learning to think for themselves and evaluate. Do you not want your DD to make her own mind up or does she always have to agree with all your opinions.

YABU.

Starfish, Id agree if we are talking about buying a laptop

Perhaps your dd caould ask a few of your neighbours if they have the Daily Mail. If so she could ask themt o save her a copy, no purchase required and you get to know a bit more than you probably wanted about your neighbours.

Then, and this is very important, get your dd to share the youtube "It must be true, I read it in the Daily Mail" song with her PSHE class.

WIN WIN WIN.

Teacher gets her copy of Daily Mail
Daughter gets to comply with request from teacher
Class get to learn why the Daily Mail is a laughable attempt at a newspaper.

I am with iggi999. I've done this lesson before, but bought papers myself. I don't know any teacher that would willingly buy the Daily Fail, but I know plenty that would readily buy one copy if it meant they could educate children about the evils of the dm.
FWIW, my parents have always bought the dm. I would still be as ignorant and ill -informed as them had a diligent teacher not taught this lesson when I was at school. YABU.

I am with iggi999. I've done this lesson before, but bought papers myself. I don't know any teacher that would willingly buy the Daily Fail, but I know plenty that would readily buy one copy if it meant they could educate children about the evils of the dm.
FWIW, my parents have always bought the dm. I would still be as ignorant and ill -informed as them had a diligent teacher not taught this lesson when I was at school. YABU.

YABU, its a one-off and it's for homework. Encourages critical thinking and discussion. The DM may end up losing readers, if she's persuasive enough!

Of course you're being unreasonable, stop making a mountain out of a bloody molehill.