To feel a little bit resentful in paying for school dinners

[sississy]

While other parents have it for free?
Or should I be just grateful I can afford to pay it?

Maybe I am answrin it myself aren't I?

Its the ones who get free school meals for their goats I hate the most.
Bastards.

I remember the little 1/3 pint milk bottles - and the adverts with the marching straws - watch out there's a humphrey about.

I bet OP is glad that Thatcher abolished free school milk.

I used to love the school milk! I was always a milk monitor, and got to drink any leftovers

I don't think every family who get free dinner have 3 holidays abroad, plasma TV and drive around even to the corner of their street, but it made me resentful today to learn something else about this particular family....the woman is charging £2.50 per hour more than I do for looking after children and she is not even registered and tbh everybody now is talking about how not ery good she does her job and how nasty the children in her care are turning while I am oftsted registered and have to put up with paperwork, inspections, observations, assessments, and blablabla

I am angry about this woman
Worded the thread wrongrily
But I do believe this particular family is not the only cheating one even though there are lots of genuine families who need the free meal.

ooh i used to have to deliver the milk round the separate classrooms in the morning, i hated it in the winter, lugging the big heavy crate about in the freezing cold.

sississy
if she is an unregistered childminder, report her for that
but do not bring free school meals into your grip with her

Sississy.... You are full of resentment aren't you? I have just read some of your previous threads!!

so one woman is childminding illegally and you decide to be resentful of all children who get free meals?

that's logical

FGS just report her to ofsted and carry on doing your job legally. if she's doing such a shit job and charging so much more then she wont have a business for very long. why would you be resentful of her?

Here's some free food for you:

www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=MpS2qH0DXpY

just to cheer everybody (of a certain age) up

So she's breaking the law as well? Why would parents pay more for a non registered childminder?

sississy, if this isn't a wind up. You should report her to the relevant authorities. Ofsted registration is there to protect the children.

haha guess what?
I did report not only to ofsted but benefit fraud too and nothing happened
I will work on my anger and resentment
thanks for the biscuit

sississy
here you go
<a class="break-all" href="https://online.hmrc.gov.uk/shortforms/form/TEH_Report?dept-name=TEH&sub-dept-name=&location=39&origin=www.hmrc.gov.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">online.hmrc.gov.uk/shortforms/form/TEH_Report?dept-name=TEH&sub-dept-name=&location=39&origin=www.hmrc.gov.uk
be vengeful

but stop scattergunning your personal animosities

Report to the police then. Childminding without being registered is illegal.

Why do parents pay her more than you?

if nothing happened about it then maybe she is registered after all.

Why are so many people so resentful of what other people get?
Doesnt it take up a lot of time and energy?

Many people who are entitled to free school meals don't actually claim them. I realised (belatedly) a few years ago that DS1 had been eligible for free school meals for the first three years of his schooling (as well as vouchers for school uniform). By the time I realised, he was no longer eligible (and I could actually afford the school dinners).

Two years ago I had to pay for school meals for my eldest child, then my partner who was working full time whilst I cared for our two disabled children, ran off as he couldn't cope, leaving me to bring them up on my own.
I'm now entitled to free school meals.
I know which position I'd rather be in.
AIBU to feel a little bit resentful that people who don;t know how good they have it, feel resentful towards me all the time?

YANBU.

School meals are expensive, my ds's have them twice a week. Every child should be given free school meals. I feel it's unfair that some get free and some don't because families that aren't entitled are not exactly well off if they don't qualify. And how do they know that I feed children properly at home? Isn't my child entitled to the assurance of a good meal as much as anyone else's?

I dont think I have the energy to get upset about what other people get. You must be exhausted OP!

I agree with Voidka, it must be incredibly tiring to waste your energy resenting people constantly.

"Actually an even better idea would be to make them work for their free lunch. They could sweep the playground or maybe clean the shoes of the children like yours that can afford their lunch. "

:o

This gets my Post of the Day award.

Kitchenroll
"Every child should be given free school meals"
Paid for how?
Should the childless subsidise you?
Are you willing to pay more tax?
or what would you cut - say free prescriptions - to pay for it?
there IS NO bottomless pit of money

Whilst it must be fun for some poster to bash the OP to kingdom come for her views, I'd like to know how some parents would prioritise feeding their child with a school meal if they had to pay for it - as opposed to supporting their own 'needs', ie. tobacco, alchol, bookies, takeaways and so on.

Don't tell me that no parent would put themselves over their child because that's patently untrue.

There are good parents and bad parents, on benefits and not on benefits...

"Actually an even better idea would be to make them work for their free lunch. They could sweep the playground or maybe clean the shoes of the children like yours that can afford their lunch. "

You might think thats a crazy idea, but Newt Gingrich has floated the idea of a similar scheme in the US :(