Refused entry to school music evening

[squareheadcut]

my son plays violin been practising concert piece for ages. It said in weekly newsletter (in small writing amongst a million other things) that we needed to get tickets Monday. I didn't. I forgot. I also thought the music evening was on Friday not Thursday. So I'm a full time working parent with a million things to remember.
So we get there last night without our 3 pound ticket and are refused entry along with 5 or 6 other parents.
The teacher said there was no space but when we went in towards the end there was plenty of space.
So AIBU to complain about :

1. Not getting a reminder text msg about the music evening
   
2. Being refused entry - this is a school event for community surely?
   
3. Having to buy a ticket anyway
   
4. Expecting children to sit in a stuffy hall for 3 hours while they wait for everyone to finish playing.
   

I really feel like complaining bitterly as parents were never treated like this at my sons old school. My reference points might be off.

[squareheadcut]

Also ... At the last event which I did buy advance ticket for they did sell at the door!!

[Ycoitsid]

Our school is short on good will however even they wouldn't refuse entry. They always put extra seats out

[Teabagbeforemilk]

For the last event, there may have been spare tickets. There may not have been this time.

Or maybe they had so many people expecting o pay in the door they had to turn people away and thought this would be better.

You shouldnt need to be told more than once about events. Schools are not obliged to text every bit of information for parents who are unorganised. They are there for your kids not you.

You say you are unorganised. You need to work on this, not expect the school to do more while you remain unorganised.

Maybe they did say what the money was for, at the start of the concert.

Also you must have known how long the concert was going to be.

Really you are mad at yourself but focusing that on the school.

[Ginpopsgalore]

Sure this is nor a reverse?

It just sounds like op doesn't take any responsibility for her part in this t all, which I find off I and self-centred. Op ywbu (very) to complain however you would not bu to suggest a text message reminder service.

[exLtEveDallasNoBollocks]

Text messaging costs in a way that parent email/letters in bookbags doesn't. Maybe they wanted the money for the wine on the tables to make it more of an 'event' or maybe to pay for the extra tuition/sheet music/overtime.

Maybe they simply think that parents should be more on the ball where their kids are concerned. If the hall was nearly full, that's an awful lot of parents that didnt have a problem with the way the school managed the event.

Maybe the people that would normally be on the door wanted to see the concert for themselves (I had this at DDs school play where latecoming parents were pissed off I wasn't on the door to let them in - well duh, I was otherwise engaged watching my own DDs performance)

Suck it up. You screwed up. Make sure you don't do it again.

[Hulababy]

We don't always have tickets or costs attached to tickets for our school events (where I work) but sometimes we do have to. It's down to fire regs generally or if additional costs are occurring due to the event. The cost of the ticket is rarely, if ever, to make profit. It's to cover essential additional costs.

[Topseyt]

I see nothing unreasonable in what the school did. Not at all.

I understand you are busy, but so are many others. You aren't an exceptional case.

Chalk it up to experience this time and get more organised next time. It's all you can do.

[HeartsTrumpDiamonds]

Drip drip drip

Probably the £3 was meant to help cover the refreshments at the interval.

YAB massively U

[echt]

At my school, all families/parents pay. Teachers do not. Teachers' partners/families pay.

OP, you need to ask for a spreadsheet of the breakdown of what the ticket price is paying for. That would be the one you didn't buy. Because you are, so, like busy.