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AIBU?

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Original poster

To think the school should not be promoting forever living shite via book bags?

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Catnappingcatnip · 26/09/2015 14:59

I emptied Dd's school bag earlier and there was a letter in there. A whole full sheet of A4 from a forever living rep asking us parents to join her amazing successful team. Her children don't even go to the school. I'm disgusted that this is allowed. It's bad enough being bombarded with it on fb but to be spammed by the school is something else. I'm tempted to complain but I don't want to be one of those parents. So AIBU or is this wrong?

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WorraLiberty · 26/09/2015 17:57

Jeez, it's no wonder important letters sometimes get missed if the book bags are full up with shite.

triathlon · 26/09/2015 18:00

School staff aren't paid to distribute advertising leaflets. There's more than enough school-related work to take up their valuable time, without being asked to waste time on junk mail.

TheCatsMother99 · 26/09/2015 18:08

I'd definitely complain. The leafleting is bad enough but the fact it's for Forever Living makes it worse IMO.

Forever living is a pyramid scam scheme with pretty crap products which are basically fads or starvation disguised as 'cleansing'

fastdaytears · 26/09/2015 18:08

It's totally different advertising summer holiday activities vs FL nonsense. I'm not sure that anything should go in the book bags but definitely not FL which is basically there to rip off mums.

You should absolutely complain.

UncertainSmile · 26/09/2015 18:35

I've heard it gives you the shits too.

ForeverLivingMyArse · 26/09/2015 18:50

It won't be long sproke!

Autumnnights1 · 26/09/2015 18:53

YADNBU

Go and tell them to STOP putting crap in her bag!

KingJoffreyLikesJaffaCakes · 26/09/2015 19:05

Isn't Forever Living a totally unhealthy and faddy food plan?

Really not appropriate for children.

RockinHippy · 26/09/2015 19:49

We have a sticker on our letter box "no spam or junk mail please"

You need to stick one on her book bag!

sproketmx · 26/09/2015 19:51

Hehe. Times like this I'm glad I work in a garage full of big burly men. I doubt any of them are into aloe Vera. A bit of 'allo Vera maybe. It's all this younique stuff round here at the mo. That and candle parties YAWN!!!

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Catnappingcatnip · 26/09/2015 21:06

We haven't had any candle parties yet. Plenty of younique reps though.

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LaLyra · 26/09/2015 21:20

I don't think anything like that should be in book bags. The Heads at all the schools I worked in would also never allow advertising of anything they didn't know/trust through the school as if the leaflet comes from the school folks assume the school endorses it.

Murfles · 26/09/2015 21:43

I can't believe the HT allowed flyers like this to in school bags. The only flyers allowed to be distributed in my school are those that are LA endorsed. Raise it with the HT.

fastdaytears · 26/09/2015 21:47

What if the HT turns out to be the FL seller? OP would just have to move schools.

Actually I reckon it's a friend of one of the office staff and HT doesn't know anything about it. If that's true I'd like my prize please!

OP if you haven't already, it might be worth looking at some of the FL or MLM threads before the conversation in case the response you get is "what's the harm?".

merrymouse · 26/09/2015 21:52

If a school is going to charge people to advertise in book bags they should be professional about it - make it very clear that this is an advertisement, not something endorsed by the school, and allow people to opt out. If that is too much bother don't do it.

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Catnappingcatnip · 26/09/2015 21:54

The HT is definitely not the seller. The seller has conviently added a picture of herself to the letter. Her child doesn't even go to the school and she doesn't even live in the village.

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fastdaytears · 26/09/2015 21:55

That's a relief about HT.

So weird to have no connection to the school.

Starkswillriseagain · 26/09/2015 21:58

We have a sticker on our letter box "no spam or junk mail please

We have one too, the bastards ignore it. Once I opened the door as they were shoving some in, I took it out their hands and threw it in the recycling next to the door. They just stared at me in incredulity so I tapped the sign. Still doesn't stop them.

horsewalksintoabar · 26/09/2015 21:58

No effing way!!! Oh my life! I just posted a thread about this yesterday...a mum (good friend of mine) is on FL like a rash.
Please tell the school secretary that Pyramid Schemes have NOTHING to do with school and in fact, people tend to have NOTHING to do with those roped into Pyramid Schemes. I am so upset about my friend right now because she is inappropriately targetting people to get sucked into her cult. But I would be furious if a FL leaflet was in my child's bag. How incredibly gauche.
sprocketmx FL reps wouldn't dare come near Fife. There'll be a lynchmob gunning for a FL rep that goes near Fife. Maybe I should get my friend to go up there. That might break the spell!

Starkswillriseagain · 26/09/2015 21:59

And the Forever living bollocks should definitely be complained about. I'm surprised they could do that, it sort of endorses it or emphasises that someone at the school supports it.

horsewalksintoabar · 26/09/2015 22:08

Just reading everyone's posts. I had to rant then read.
So my friend's only child left primary school 3 years ago. So she no longer has a connection to the school our sons once attended together (they're now in secondary). But I do. I'm still at the primary with the younger ones. So she asked me to email her FL 'leaflet' to all the mums in my daughter's class (who don't know this woman- my friend) and she wanted our former year 6 class list- which I still have but never look at. In fact, I am deleting it as soon as I get around to finding it somewhere in my Word files. I mean, the majority of the parents I knew from son's former class at primary school have moved on and are no longer attached to the school. Between them and the current set of mums I know, I would be embarrassed to lure them to my friend's snake oil bash, where she plans on roping other fools in with Aloe's false promises, over glasses of wine and the scent of geranium candles wafting through what will inevitibly be a sad, lonely, empty living room. Bless her, I feel sad for her, but she's being so brazen about the whole thing that my sympathy is fast fading.
I'd like to know how these leaflets got into the kids' bags. A teacher? A teaching assistant I bet. A mother who helps out in the classroom?

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Catnappingcatnip · 26/09/2015 22:09

I'm thinking she may have approached all the schools in the area. She lives about 8 miles away I reckon.

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Catnappingcatnip · 26/09/2015 22:12

That's awful horse. It's like a cult, everyone who is a rep for one of these mlm scams appears brainwashed.

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LittleMissStubborn · 26/09/2015 22:16

She is probably casting her net wider, family are saying No, friends are saying No, people on fb (usually old school friends etc) are saying No, so then you have to look elsewhere.

But remember FL is about the product.

I would be annoyed if they were in our book bags, we get the odd leaflet but usually extra-circular and usually of no interest

PlopsyWhopsy · 26/09/2015 22:17

Hell YADNBU for FL shite to be sent out through school. Fair enough information about fairs/after school clubs etc not FL

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