Taking advantage of younger kids

[Nevermind31]

My DC and the rest of their school are into Pokémon cards. They are all obsessed with it.
i always say to older DC (year 4) that any trade they make with younger, less experienced children (eg Their Reception aged sibling and friends, Year1 children) needs to be fair - they must not take advantage of the fact that the younger ones don’t understand as much and try to swap a really good card for a much inferior one.
one of the other Year 4 mums doesn’t agree with this and thinks any trade is fair.
who is being unreasonable?

Who's being unreasonable? The school, for allowing kids to trade cards at all.

If you want my honest opinion, they shouldn’t be allowed do any trading in school! We used never allow them in school to prevent the above scenario. (But I would say that you’re correct Re trading with younger children and the other mums are being unreasonable.)

I used to worry about this, and thought like you, swaps should be fair and not to take advantage of others….. however….

what I value in the cards was not the same as what my ds valued, and as long as the expensive cards stayed at home, I accepted he could swap the others at his choice. Who am I to say what card he wants?

I had to let it go to a certain extent

school generally stopped card swapping be it Pokemon, match attacks, football cards etc

Oh for fucks sake. God forbid kids have a bit of fun with trading cards at breaktime. Have a word with yourself.

Our school don't allow card trading after older kids ripped off younger ones doing rubbish swaps or even fake cards.

Trading done mainly outside school in the park… and I am mainly concerned that my older DC doesn’t take advantage of younger ones - they can trade all they want with their peers, don’t care if they give their cards away, they know what they are doing, but trading with younger ones should be fair. And, of course, I want my younger DC not to be ripped off either…

Our school allow trading cards at break but not for reception. Yr 1 are only allowed to trade with yr2, 3 with 4 and 5 with 6 to minimise the power imbalances.

This is the sort of behaviour I don’t want to see in my DC… other mum thinks it is fine as long as younger children don’t understand the rubbish trade they were manipulated into

Absolutely no trading allowed at DS's school, and they are dead right because the trading outside school always turns problematic.

I wouldn't let me son take cards to school or to trade them (he was quite into Pokemon), it's basically asking for trouble when there are children who are just too young to realise all the implications.