To think the school hasn't thought through how unfair this is?

[CreakyBlinder]

DD is 7, and was voted to be the Class Rep on the Pupil Council this year. They've had one meeting because the teacher running it never has the time.

However - now they've decided to have 'Activities Time' each Friday afternoon for an hour. The children can pick from sports, chess club, library visit, etc. Maybe half a dozen different activities to choose from. DD got a chess set for Christmas and is actually really good at it; she'd heard there was a chess club starting and was keen to go.

BUT - the school has decided that the Pupil Council will run at Activities Time. So she'll never get to do any of the other activities, just go to a meeting each Friday while her friends do loads of other fun things of their choosing.

AIBU to think they really haven't thought this through? And would you contact the school to point out that they might want to have a rethink?

At DDs' primary school they had school council meetings during assembly once a term, which seemed to work well. Both activities with similar entertainment value, plus it kept the meeting relatively short!

That's a very practical idea. Assembly is exactly as fun as pupil council meetings I'd imagine!

There's no way on earth the school could win here. Someone would have complained if they were during lessons, someone else if they were over lunch break, you if over activity time.

"Dear School,

I am writing to point out to you that my little Neveah is such a bastian of awe and responsibility that she was naturally voted most popular member in her class. However, I duly expect that you haven't realised that teachers at your school are taking dreadful liberties in expecting to have a lunch break instead of running school council meetings. Neveah can't possibly be expected to give up one Chess session a month to tell everyone her opinions on how the school should be run. Please immediately insist that your teachers stop taking lunch breaks so this travesty against human rights does not occur."

Wow, you're very silly @MidniteScribbler

I don't post in AIBU very often, I'd forgotten that's it's basically a game of Top Trumps of bitchiness and nonsense.

DD should resign. When I was a prefect I resigned so I could spend lunch times playing a sport and other activities rather than patrolling the cloakrooms and corridors

I was only made a prefect in my final year when all the actual good students had left. Don't think I ever undertook any responsibilities

Posted too soon!

I'm going to remind DD that it's monthly and not weekly as she thought. She'll be fine with it I think. It's hardly the end of the world, and next year some other kids from her class will be on the PC.

Agree, you should maybe suggest to your DD that she does have a choice and that she can simply step down.

I do have to agree with Blackteasplease, always found the school council to be nothing more than a popularity contest! Certainly in my experience anyway. Dc were told how many votes they’d got each in ds’s old Primary, nice!

Pupil Council is their chosen activity. If they don't want to do it then they don't be a class rep.

Erm...no.

This wasn't made clear when OP's DD accepted the role. Stupid statement.