Today DD came home with a note she had copied off the white board this afternoon saying she has to take a pineapple, a punnet of strawberries, a pack of apples and a pack of oranges into school with her tomorrow morning.
This is with ONE days notice, well not even that, about 15hours notice, 10 hours of which I shall be trying to get some sleep!
First annoyance, where do I get the time to go the greengrocers or supermarket and buy these things? I can't go after school and live in a village so there isn;t anyway local I can get them.
Secondly, at it's cheapest that will cost me about £7, all so they can make a poxy smoothie, surely in a class of 28 children they dont each need to take in all that fruit?? The cost isnt a huge issue to us at this point in time, but there have been times when there is no way I would've been able to spend that at a moments notice, what about the parents that can't do it?
Lastly, this isn't a one off, it happens about once every four weeks, we get a plate sent home with a sticker on that we have to fill with cakes/biscuits to be sold at the school, or last fortnight it was a letter saying to join the ocarina club they needed £9 to be paid in two days time, I' starting to get REALLY annoyed with it.
I'm happy to pay for tickets to school events arranged by the PTA, I appreciate the job they do and the funding that they provide at the school, but this is above and beyond even what the PTA ask for, surely if the teacher wants to make smoothies she could do it a lot cheaper and at no huge cost/inconvenience to the parents?