To think we need more kids like this child

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I admire Tommie Rose for his ambition and entrepreneurship spirt. He is the kind of person who makes jobs in the future.

www.itv.com/news/granada/2014-11-21/schoolboy-suspended-after-making-14k-selling-crisps/

Rather than punishing him I feel that his school should be chanelling his energy. Maybe they should enter into discussion what they would be happy for Tommie to sell to his class mates.

My daughter says there is a boy in her class who sells sweets and has made hundreds of pounds already this term. I got into trouble at primary school for selling 1p bubble gums.(my dad sold to newsagents and I used to buy wholesale price and sell on) You have to admire him for trying but I think once you are rumbled then you have to stop as it is against school rules!

Well I might be more inclined to admire him if he paid minimum wage to his employees, paid tax and was not undermining the school.

And I don't think he will be studying business at oxbridge

If he does make jobs in the future I hope he pays his workers a proper wage unlike this time round.

I'd like to know how long it was going on for and how he was getting enough of the things into school to generate that level of profit. Not like he could have been secreting them about his person is it?

The kids are at school. They can't have been "working" much more than an hour anyway, with lessons and their own lunch to fit in and considering national minimum wage for that age is around £3.80, I'd say they were getting a fair wage.

I doubt he made 14k though!?

A paper round pays less than he pays these 2 boys.

£27.50 a week is loads for a 15 year old.

£110 a month free spends is more than some adults have for free spends.

Why not it's over 3 years.

£14000 \ 3 years / 39 weeks is £119 per week.

There is 700 pupils so if each would only have to spend 17p a day

Why isn't he on 'The Apprentice'? Sounds just like the sort of exploitative thing some of them do. I used to make a healthy 100% profit on selling decorated cards for 5p door to door and to teachers at school when I was about seven. Of course, my mother did fork out for the cardboard, glue, felt tips, etc etc, so I guess I didn't quite understand how profit worked. Also, this was the early eighties...

That's not the point is it? There is a tkecatbhis school and he isn't blatantly refusing to follow it.
He is in effect working on the black market as he isn't paying tax.
Now what would you think of your co-worker selling crisps etc whilst they are at work, on the company premises? I suspect very few companies would allow that either.

It's all well and good to say it's for a good cause (Uni) but he first needs to follow basic times tbh.

As for the punishment not fitting the crime, I'm afraid this is quite common even in our everyday laws. And I suspect the reason he would be expulsion isn't the selling but the repeatly refusing to follow the school rules.

I used o sell cigs - was the oldest in our year.

I don't know what to believe or disbelieve here but what a great story. Just like something out of Grange Hill circa 1980.

My brother does this. No where near that much though.

At my school the money was in the cigs and weed.

2 cigs for 50p. 1 for 30p

Ready rolled joint £2.50

I'm sure it was leaves in the joints though

God knows how much cigs are at school now. Have to be £1.00 each to cover the cost and make a profit I giess

He's been offered an interview for an internship as a result of the story according to what's just popped up on my MEN Facebook feed