WIBU to get pizza delivered to DD's school for her birthday lunch?

[PizzaMom]

I apparently am known as 'that' parent and have been given the side eye the few times I've gone in since!

It was DD's 16th last month on a school day. I ordered a few pizzas to be sent to school at lunchtime so she could share them with her mates in the common room. Teachers were not going to let her have them and when they relented (by the time they got cold) made her and a few friends eat them in a separate meeting room when she had planned to share them as there was enough for about 20 people!

I don't see it as being that different from me bringing in a forgotten lunch box?

I also ordered flowers and a balloon to be delivered and school refused to let her have them until after school had finished.

I was trying to make DD's day special. I really didn't think would have been that much of an issue which ruined it a bit for DD.

WIBU?

SetPhasersTaeMalkie
Same.
I find it hilarious that there's still an argument that pizza parties in schools facilitated by staff are an entirely normal and reasonable thing.

Yes! OP has gone but Math is really entertaining me!

I think in the US they are more concerned about guns being brought into school that pizzas.

*than

Batshit

I still don't get why this has been raised as a issue if it happened last month. Surely the OP and her daughter be over it all by now!

Just gone really funny. End of the day could've been less of a fuss if been checked with the school first. They say no. So move on. Have people over at home all lovely.

"You don't know much about the US, do you..."

Lived and taught there, thanks.

I know in general children perform worse educationally.

That it has the lowest level of social mobility in the developed world.

That you have a chip on your shoulder regarding UK education.

Oh and that other posters have said this wouldn't be allowed in a US school.

I go back to what I said before, this was a mum, expecting school to facilitate a private party, at school, so she didn't have to do it at home.

Utterly unresasonable.

It wasn't student led, they didn't organise it themselves, that is a totally different matter.

In my dcs' school there are approximately 270 pupils in each year. If everyone had something like this for their 16th (GCSE year) there would be deliveries arriving more than every other day, needing staff to take delivery and get it to the recipient, maybe organise a space and time to have it. That's just if it was limited to super sweet sixteen. If it inevitably spread to the other years you could be looking at 4 deliveries a day!