School Mufti day but only if you bring a tombola prize?????

[karise]

Am a right to feel like I'm being taken for a ride?
School christmas cards, teatowels etc fine. Then we have a choice. But nobody wants their child to be the only one in school with their uniform on for mufti day so we all go along with it like twits
It just feels like mass bullying to me or am I being over the top?

I really don't understand any of the points you are trying to make. They make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

ds school doing a chocolate Tombola on school mufti day.Don't see a problem really,sorry.

what/who me?

I was saying I like mufty days and that at our school Kids take in some money!
And at least there is, other than donation no outlay...unlike those cakestalls (there is a thread about this), where cakes get sold to cheap and therefore giving money to the charity,m etc...would make more sesne...iykwim...

and I am german, so, in germany "muftyday" is everyday and therefor "free"...but of course it's not really mufty day...
Wasn't arguing or anything

GET A FUCKING GRIP, Your sort make me sick.

The LEA will provide:

For example a printer to the school, however they will not provide paper or ink...How does that work

So I give up my evenings sitting in draughty halls trying to put a new spin, on an age old fact. "We need money"

I then rope my DH into helping, I have yet to "attend" a school fair or a summer fair with my husband and child, as I am generally found running around trying to sort things out. Then when that is over, all the money needs counting.

The money that the school needs, so get up off your lazy arse and get that bottle of vinegar out of your cupboard.

It's the OPs points I don't understand at all, FairLady. (I sound like a badly scripted medieval character).

A bottle of lemon juice would work well too, if you have no vinegar.

lol.....oh...got all paranoid then...had a glass of wine, erm, or two already, and thought I was losing the plod or something...!
Not unheard of, ya know!

Fair Lady

My post was for the OP.

Losing the plod? Yes, I rather think you are

well...yeah...there is that...although, don't think I could lose the plod....never had it in the first place............................................................................................... .....I think

oh, and to be called Fair Lady....

From a teachers point of view I hate mufti days and when a member of management in my previous school would have happily got rid of them, we reduced them to one a year.

I taught at a school in a very deprived neighbourhood and our attendance would go down by a huge % as the kids felt too embaressed to wear their own clothes.

I can remember getting really stressed about them as a teenager.

I now teach in a much more middle class school and feel it has a direct impact on ahievement and behaviour.

My post for OP too

See...it's something I really don't get....maybe because in Germany we always wore our own clothes...and believe me, I was no Fashion Icon....but that was certainly nothing I ever received bullying for....

Dd had to do this today, but the items go into a hamper, we get given raffle tickets to sell and you might win a hamper.

I think its a good idea, we sent a box of shortbread. I don't see a problem with it.

At my previous school they would turn up in uniform looking a tip, holes in things, too big, too small, stains, no zips etc but because it was uniform it didn;t matter as they were not clothes they had chosen.

However to turn up looking crap in their own clothes was seen as shameful.

btw, I maybe paranoid, ya know...but I'm not that paranoid....

hm...maybe because they are normally not used to it...
maybe nowadays the problem does exist in Germany...must find out...would be interesting to know, I suppose...

Started a long response and deleted it all for a simple

UABVU

FFS It's a tin, doing other things is fantastic, but for some people the tin is the only thing they contribute. Am in danger of repeating the long rant I deleted so breathe........ and return to the Faraway Tree

I have no issues with donating to school or giving them time, but I do wish mufti days would end.

You think that's bad?! My DSs were compelled to wear burkhas!

YABU. The school is trying to raise money and a tombola prize can be anything. When my children were at school they had to pay a pound on non uniform days.

i think it's alwful would rather give a £1 than spend ages looking around for three suitable things to donate to school or have to go out to buy them

infact when i was at school for children in need etc we used to go in fancy dress etc and get really into it

i know that some people would find this ott but it just seems a bit half hearted to go just in normal clothes i don;t know

I used to send my ds in with a t-shirt saying "Chaos, panic and destruction, my work here is done" as my own little rebellious message. Mufti days are great for this.

BoffinMun

Do you volunteer for the PTA ?