To talk to ds's teacher about this (or would I come across as a lunatic)?

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Ds is in year 1 in an infants school. They have an after school football club which is massively oversubscribed, so they pick the names out of a hat. Fine. We didn't apply for ds as he was already going to a football club outside school, but he would get another chance to put his name down in Y2 if he wanted.

Every break and lunch time, the boys (sadly no girls!) who are in the football club get to play football in a special bit of the playground. No other children are allowed to join in or play football anywhere else. Ds thinks this is horribly unfair and I am inclined to agree (although with nowhere near the same amout of vitriol...). Loads of kids want to do this, but a lucky few not only get to join the club but also get to play football three times a day every day. If ds had known this he would have wanted to put his name down for the club! I am tempted to say something. Am I being ridiculous?

Thanks for coming back to update us - I wonder sometimes about loads of threads where people never let us know the outcome

I agree with ariadne1's rule - NEVER storm angrily into a school going purely on what a small person tells you. Do follow up things that sound "not right", but always in a pleasant way as it's more than feasible the dc have the wrong end of the stick.

Thank god for that, I thought the world really was going to hell in a handcart :)

I definitely didn't storm in angrily as I was aware there was a very high probability ds hadn't understood! I did mention the dinner lady (in passing, not in an agressive way) and his teacher said that sometimes the dinner ladies weren't singing off the same hymn sheet as the rest of the school (I'm paraphrasing here obviously) and she would check it out.

backforgood, I always feel strangely unsatisfied by threads with no definite outcome, so felt duty bound to report back even if no one was reading

Ah that sounds like a v normal school children sort of misunderstanding.