Ticketed school event

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Work at a school where have an event coming up that is ticketed due to health and safety. Despite there being limited tickets available, there were 2 tickets per family offered.

We've had a few parents asking for tickets but we've none left, some only wanted 1 ticket as single families/only 1 person available due to work etc. It seems a bit unfair that some kids have 2 people from their family coming to see them, others will have 0.

Now, obviously, there was never going to be enough tickets for every child to have someone there... however, would it not have been fairer to limit the tickets to 1 per family, as then there would have been more tickets available for the families who have missed out?

We just sold 2 tickets to one family this morning, then had a single dad come in an hour later asking for 1 ticket and had to say no.

On the other hand... Some guardians might need 2 tickets as need a carer to come with them to attend ? In which case it would also seem unfair to limit it to 1 ticket.

I suppose 1 ticket per child, unless there's a need for a carer to attend which would be a special circumstance for 2 tickets? Idk, is that intrusive? Probably

I guess we'd never get it right

YANBU - 1 ticket per family is fairer as more
families get a chance to have someone attend

YABU - 2 is fine

That's a terrible attitude. Should your child only do things in life that you can watch? What would they do while the others are rehearsing? It's not about you.

Why is it a terrible attitude. She's absolutely correct. Why on earth would a child want to take part if the knew their parent wasn't allowed to attend. Not that they couldn't come and watch because of work or other commitments but instead that they wanted to come and because of how the tickets were allocated they couldn't. How's that kid going to feel when their friends and classmates have multiple people watching them perform and they've got no one?

If anything keeping them away from the performance is the opposite of selfish it's putting the poor child first, something the school seems incapable of comprehending.

My primary always did a big concert for Christmas with every child (200 pupils) involved.
They did 2 nights' show and one afternoon one. I think the hall probably took around 100 chairs, although the afternoon one also used to have another local school come to watch, so probably about half that for parents. Obviously some of the 200 children would be siblings, so obviously shared parents, and they didn't allow younger siblings to come.
They sold tickets to them on a first come first served basis. I don't ever remember someone saying their parents wanted to go and hadn't got tickets.

However they also did a dress rehearsal that anyone could come, and younger siblings were fine too. It was never very busy, so I'd guess that most people got tickets that wanted them.