Forgot to send money for cake sale

[DKmamma]

There was a cake sale at school yesterday and, naturally, I forgot all about it so my two weren't sent with any money. Whoops.

My son came home in tears because only he and one other child from his whole class didn't get a cake. There were others whose parents had forgotten, but whilst they were all lucky enough to have a cake bought for them by one of their friends my son was not one of "the chosen ones".

AIBU to think that school could have handled this better and that leaving just two children out for the sake of 20p per cake is downright cruel?!!

I would have paid 10 times the amount the next day to avoid his upset and disappointment. I always contribute to fundraising at school, both with money and time. I just find it so difficult spinning all these plates and remembering what's happening when and on this occasion I forgot his 20 bloody p.

Personally I wish schools would just drop all this kind of stuff. My boys are grown up now, but as a broke and knackered (and unwell) parent it was hard.

I've also always wondered where liability lies for cakes / food sent in that's made in unsavoury conditions or that might have been tampered with.

Blinkingblimy - your childs school should have been utterly ashamed of treating your child like that.