Advertising at school open evenings

[ASDismynormality]

Yesterday I took my son to a secondary school open evening. When entering the sports hall he was handed various leaflets from a theatre company, football club and I was then offered some Herbalife to try repeatedly!

Do most schools do this? I understand it's a good way to make some money for the school but it felt inappropriate and was quite off putting.

I wouldn't be happy with the MLM. If the theatre company and football club are offering extra curricular classes, I might be interested. But I detest open days, glad those days are over, can't tolerate crowds (grumpy not scared).

Probably wasn't from the school itself, more one person who works there. And I'd hope the school or whoever allowed the Herbalife person to have a stall are woefully misinformed about the company. Very inappropriate to use an open evening to hawk products and ultimately try recruit people to sell it (as that's the one way the reps make money!).

I'd be sending a polite email to the head with a few links explaining about Herbalife and why it's inappropriate to have what's essentially a pyramid scheme recruiting from an open evening. Potentially from a different email account so as not to link myself to the kid in case the head is unreasonable or it taints him in some way. But I'd definitely be letting them know.