Alcohol at primary school discos…….

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Is this a thing these days? For parents obvs 🤣

We don't actually go into the disco and headbang with the kids.

The 'bar' is the nursery boot area (electricity, wifi for the card reader) and we hang around the bike sheds. No access to the kids.

I have never had to stay for a school disco???? I find that more bizarre than the alcohol tbh.

Never heard of parents attending the kids school disco😆

It was none negotiable for reception and year one when my youngest started.
As a rookie parent I rocked up with DC2 in baby carrier and spent two hours sweating to the dulcet tones of crazy frog like Anne from Motherland.
Any drink that wasn’t one of those acrid, cup drinks that burn your throat would have been most welcome!

DD is only 6 so not much experience of school discos yet but I have been plied with booze at every birthday party I’ve been to since the age of 3 with the exception of one, as well as (not free) at all the school fairs, so booze + kids events is the norm as far as I’m concerned.

School disco was kids only when DDs were small. The only adults that were there at ours were people supervising the kids. So alcohol maybe not a great idea when you are in charge of fifty kids.

Well at my nephew’s summer fairs (both schools) they always have a wine/beer/Pimms stall. They’re very popular especially when it’s boiling hot and the children and parents are getting on each other’s last nerve!

As long as parents don’t get roaring drunk I don’t see an issue with this.

Idk maybe parents could make one thing about their kids instead of having to alter their minds to get through a single hour of wholesome children’s fun.

The alcohol consumption in this country is disgusting. It’s like people don’t know how to enjoy life or take it in or cope without drinking.

I’m sure I’ve seen a few parents over indulging in alcohol at the summer fair. However, as the kids are running around like crazed creatures, the adults are fawning over them, consoling them or dead bored then I don’t see the harm in parents getting slightly tipsy as long as they’re being responsible, respectful parents. Otherwise the bars might as well sell a strict rule of thimbleful of sherry only for each adult/parent and be done with it!

It's so sad that there's a thread running about children addicted to ketamine next door; and over here we have parents who can't enjoy any event without liquor 😟.

Why are adults even at the primary school disco? Surely they can wait for the school fair or adult quiz night to drink.

Oh ffs unclench. Gin and wine has helped my SIL and DB relax on a number of occasions over the years. And yes they know when to draw the line (normally after 2) as a hangover isn’t pleasant with young children. Even the heavier drinkers seem to manage drink and parenting.

It would be heaven indeed if parents could enjoy a school event sans liquor but as most parents run around like blue arsed flies after their kids be it nursery pick up or school after school club pick up (not to mention drop offs) factoring in a commute to work, and you’d really begrudge parents a solitary gin and tonic at an event after work/school/on a weekend? Very sad if that’s your view point.

It sounds odd to me. My kids disco's never involved parents as well, surely that's massive safeguarding issue just having all those non DBS checked adults in the building with kids, let alone adding alcohol.

Schools do often have a licence to serve drinks at a play (where parents are not mixing with the kids)or at an evening parents only event.

I had to have one gin and tonic at my nephew’s end of term stagecoach performance. Bless them they’re lovely but hundreds of kids singing and dancing over 2-3 hours can be draining at the very least. Unless you’re a parent!

School discos, no.
All other events, yes.

We had Pimms on sports day and the summer fair, and mulled wine/cider at the Christmas fair and the carol service. Only cost about £30 for a licence and the PTA made a good profit!

I can’t recall off hand that many primary school discos though there were one or two. I can recall youth club discos though where no parents ever were in attendance apart from youth workers. I never noticed any alcohol at these events and adults were most unwelcome, unless as a taxi service.

😂

No one is talking about doing shots. Unclench

It's fine to have a drink from time to time, ask the French!

alcoholic drinks are a form of drug that if invented today would be controlled - that’s why people think it’s poor practise to treat it so trivially

Catholic school - the bar is our biggest earner!

i hate prudery around alcohol ( or anything)

of course no one should drink and drive and no one should be so pissed they are obnoxious and cant parent

but some school events are for the kids and it makes it so much more enjoyable if you have a glass or two chat snd be merry

My school had one at our Christmas play and discos. They were held at the miners welfare, and if you had a membership the pints were like £2. This was around 2003-2010 though. And yes - people did get absolutely fucking pissed. My kids school don’t do it now but my kids go to a very different kind of primary school than I did 😭.

Different folks and all that 🤷🏾‍♀️.

I'm unclenched, thanks 😊

There was always a bar at my kids primary school events. I don’t see the problem with it. It helps raise funds for the PTA and the parents can have a social wine or beer whilst they endure a tedious school event so win win. The vast majority of parents will just have a drink or two at most so it’s all quite sensible.

Most of the primary schools Ive worked with over the last 25 years have some kind of alcohol for parents at functions like discos or fairs. Usually they don’t have strong spirits, but most have beer, wine, or one school amways has a Pimm’s stall which is run by the governors.

Alcohol isn't allowed in schools here, no matter the occasion.

Also parents don't attend discos, only the handful that are the helpers/organisers, so I'd really hope they weren't under the influence.

The PTA does some adults only fundraising events like race nights where there is alcohol but these are not on school grounds and children can't attend.

Really shocked to hear that alcohol is served at school discos!