To think the PTA selling alcohol in school is inappropriate?

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There are wine tasting evenings, gin nights etc. at school fundraising events all over the country. Does anyone else feel it's wrong? Shouldn't schools main concern be good role modelling and the health of our children? Isnt it a bit off for local councils to give temporary alcohol licenses to schools?

We don't have serve alcohol at any events at DS school. HT has made it very clear it won't be happening. Plenty of people turn up. The last ones standing after the clearing up sometimes go for a drink after.

There are two types of PTAs. Ones that understand you need to be a bit pissed to tolerate other parents and ones that don’t. I prefer the former. And you sound like a 12 pinter OP. Cheers!

It's an easy way to make money, unless you have an idea that will raise equal funds I suggest you sod off & find something actually worthwhile to get your knickers in a twist over

Mr Uber zebbie. Or my old favourite ‘the bus’.

@Eltonjohnssyrup

School run gin should be compulsory.

Zebbie, we walk but if we needed to drive then one of us wouldn't drink. Exactly the same as every other occasion involving a car and alcohol

Think 50% of our PTA money comes from booze !

Pims, wine and beer at summer fair, mulled wine at Xmas fair and prosecco at carol concert !

Sponsored pub crawl may be an issue but not wine or gin tasting with consenting adults - or even a beer/wine/pims tent at fete fine - its not encouraging abuse of alcohol.

Drinking wine -responsibly - is proven to have health benefits anyway. Wine tasting is a very good idea to show you can enjoy wine without feeling the need to down 12 pints in an hour during pubs opening times.

It's perfectly appropriate to drink alcohol within reasons, and if someone fears drunk drivers, it's not difficult to ask your local police station to do a check at the exit of the school - other countries are happy to do it.

If you want to organise something that's a good healthy role model, it will have to be water (juice and fizzy drinks are awful) and vegetable sticks (bread has no health benefit, barbecued meat gives cancer, sugar is bad for your health and teeth). Good luck with your veggie evening/ soup night to raise money.

Well surely if a parent chooses to have a drink and then chooses to drive they probably have a habit of doing this you can blame the school because they are selling a few glasses of tepid lambrusco or whatever , people are responsible for their own actions .

YABU OP!

You can't blame the school *

I hope they have a licence for this. If not report them. I don't think this is appropriate for schools to do.

no posters in class or school halls

I don't get this. What difference does it make if a child sees the poster? Will two 9 year olds sneak into the wine tasting evening, one on the others shoulders, and try to get Mrs Smith to serve them a crisp chardonnay?

Don't see the issue, parents are adults not children.

I need alcohol to suffer being a member of the PTA.....

I have seen my mum using alcohol even in her cooking, and none of us are raging alcoholic. Wine and liqueur snobs possibly, but that's a good thing.

Will two 9 year olds sneak into the wine tasting evening, one on the others shoulders, and try to get Mrs Smith to serve them a crisp chardonnay?

Yup. Then they will be straight down the local boozer downing pints. 🤣

Personally I'd focus more on food, balance out all the cake and shite food sales. You seldom see a healthy eating one to balance it out and it's never popular if you do. It's all sugary crap and the parents buying or giving the kids money to enable them to eat as much shite as possible.

With obesity a bigger problem than alcoholism, modelling healthy eating at a young age. In my experience, parents at school events where alcohol is served overwhelmingly drink responsibly. No one sees it as an opportunity to get pissed. The same can't be said for cake sales where it's seen by many as an opportunity to eat more shite.

Have they got a licence?

Our Council is quite strict about licencing events with alcohol in their premises - you can only have alcohol at events om a Friday or Saturday night, and never at events where there are children in attendance.

I fail to see what's wrong with a BYOB quiz night though, or a mixer night for parents new to the school where the PTA flog bottles of Prosecco. It's not inappropriate in the slightest.

Ha ha ha, Our PTA would shrivel away if we didnt do stuff like this

k2p2k2tog Do you live in Dismalland.

Ds’s previous school gave wine away for free to parents at concerts etc. There was orange juice for the kids.

I don’t see a problem at all b

OP you're a misery guts.

Please do come back and tell us if you're in support of banning cake, I really need to know.

Yep. It’s a slippery slope. It’s a well known fact that if a five year old sees his mother drink a small sherry by his sixth birthday he will be drinking ten cans of special brew and two bottles of Buckie a day. Every time. And he’ll be pregnant. Probably.