To think serving alcohol at a school fayre seems off

[Mummy0b]

Just that really, it seems off to me.
Not against drinking in any way, i actually work in a bar (possibly why it seems more of a concern to me) but theres a time and a place for drinking and a school fayre doesnt seem like one of them. Ive witnessed so many happy, family occasions descend into utter chaos because of excess alcohol consumption and it seems like a school fayre would do fine without a bar.
Additionally, i know many people who struggle with alcohol addiction and i dont think they would expect to be confronted with that temptation at a school event
So AIBU to think people could go without a drink at a school fayre?

No. Because nobody under 18 does. I would have thought this very, very simple concept was familiar to all.

I've never seen a school fete, or any school event descend into chaos from excessive alcohol consumption. Usually, they're not long enough for anyone to get drunk, unless they were to spend the entire event at the . Personally, I'm not a fan of drinking during the day, so I don't drink at school fetes but I don't see an issue with serving alcohol.

Oh yeah, drink at the summer fair, equals can't cope with kids for a couple of hours.

I love these type of ridiculous comments on threads like this, it shows that the non drinkers can only see them and total alcoholics and no one in between who has a healthy and not extreme either way relationship with alcohol.

Shows the posters as so ridiculous.

I'm at child event where they've been serving booze (on multiple stalls) for the past three hours. So far I haven't seen:

Anyone kicking off
Blokes wondering around topless
Vomitting
Drunken drivers crashing in the car park
Loud swearing
Passed out parents
Public fondling

I mean the only reason I came, was to support my sister and rough it with the common people for a few hours. I'm thoroughly disappointed I'm not witnessing the last days of Rome.

Where are you seeing this behavior OP? I'll come to your school fete next time.

Its not necessary. Ours is doing that. Ours is also selling tokens before the fair and going cashless. There isn't a hig amount to do a few tombola etc and they suggested for 1 child to have at least 1 go on everything it would equate to £20 worth of tokens! I have 4 kids. That's £80. I know the school needs money but that is ridiculous and many kids won't be able to go at that price. We won't be going because that's a huge amount of money that we can't afford right now. I am happy to make a donation to the school instead but I'm boycotting this year

We don’t serve alcohol at school functions as we have a high proportion of ethnic minority families who perhaps wouldn’t come if it was served

This is actually rather offensive

Every single school do at my DC's school sell alcohol. I'm a bit tired of it now, but I can appreciate it's probably just me because all the mums that I'm friendly with are big drinkers and they tent to take every opportunity to get hammered. At first I quite liked how school fairs or birthday parties had drinks for sale - I thought that having a beer whilst watching the little ones play could be quite relaxing. Then I noticed the parents getting sloshed at these dos, and planning their attendance around drink and pre-drinking etc and I started getting a bit annoyed with it all.

I'm not a huge drinker anymore, and because I'm not drinking at these events I notice others' drinking more, and it makes me a bit sad that some of these kids never see their parents sober at these events. I'm in no way judging anyone having a drink, but in my social school circle it seems that you have to have booze at every event, and I don't think that is the right message to send to kids. I think our school/parents circle has the balance a little wrong and I would prefer if they had both alcoholic and alcohol free events.