to be annoyed at this school policy?

[Peachy]

School play this year will be charging for tickets, £2.
And absolutely no siblings to free ups eats,even if they are on your lap.

Which means I cannot go, as I have no body to help and DH will be in an exam.

I therefore have two very upset children. DS1 is only doing the PC but still wants me there.

Seems they prefer to let famillies of 6 (2 parents, 4 grandparents- and there will be many like that, always is) in rather than help out the parent who has nobody to help.

I am the only aprent in the year group at least who regularly goes in and reads with the class,they want me to pay for a father Chriostmas costume to be worn by ds2 for 2 minutes as he walks across stage, but....

Dunno, maybe I am being unreasonable- but boys upset- but they know our circs (no family within 50 miles,low income as carer so not able to hire childminder) so if I am prepared to help them with the reading can they not just let me have ds4 on my lap as usual (and I always leave if he whinges)? Is that so much to ask?

Don't speak tio the TA .All she can do is tell you the party line.You have to go to the top !
I am sure if GPs are invited to the dress rehearsal it would be ok for you

Oh Peachy, that's shit. Bloody head.

It's bonkers.

Our school does 3 performances:

an afternoon one for parents with younger children and grandparents plus two evening ones with a maximum of 2 tickets per family. So if parents work and have no babysitter they can take it in turns to go.

Simple. Everyone gets a chance to go and watch and in peace if they prefer.

Why are they only doing one performance. Don't schools normally do one in school hours and one in the evening.

It's really nasty to exclude siblings - it excludes so many parents. Can you ask WHY they are being excluded. The reason can't be money because the tickets are £2 each and that would apply to children too. And they're not excluding siblings because they're worried about the noise on the DVD because the DVD recording is made before hand.

Oh, and when our school banned camcorders, forcing some parents to pay £10 for the KS1 DVD AND £10 for the KS2 DVD, we just illegally copied the DVD for each other. The school was only getting £1 per DVD sold anyway.