homework clubs why shodul we bother?

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ok so state primary has asked for parental input intot he settign up of a hoemwork club tow nights a week afetr school

spoke ot friend and she said " why the hell shoudl we support flakey parents who see it as freee childcare adn a way of getting somoen else to do thier kids homework"

i think i agree

what do oyu think

People come from different circumstances, i would love to be on the pta but i'm not paying a babysitter so i can go.

I don't know, I guess there would be very 'deserving' cases and therefore it's a great idea. However, I can't help thinking there'll be some parents who just see it as extra childcare and 'hurrah, another thing I don't have to deal with' and that's very sad.

no oyu knwo though fairy th eone who dont go on it fo rno reason
i asked a freind of mine ot be on it
"oh sorry dh is not back form work in time for fete"
so she came wiht ehr two older dsses and her mother fgs

lazy cow

agree with gdg who can type better than me

indeed - it's always the same people at the meetings and at the events and there on a Saturday painting the school fencing, or tidying the garden, meeting and greeting school visitors.....

of course there are some parents that can't do it but at our school, some of them just go on about how busy they are. I find it insulting personally as I'm grappling with 3 small kids in teh playground - I'm not busy am I not?

If it's a homework club than presumably it's out of school time (??) If so, then you're not taking anything off the other kids. In fact I would rather this than those 'needier'kids having to get extra help in class.

but will find time to do stuff htey want to

fb dream on!

yes it wil be from 3 30 till 4pm ish

the smae kids whose parents dont buyt hem shcool uniform or pe kit yet smoke

I've had my mum look after the 2 younger ds's while I've gone to do the infant party as it was in school hours and dh was obviously at work.

Surely these flakey parents are in a very small minority....? they are in our school.

i know
i know

w as tlkaing abotu thsi with a police man today

the "i deserve it" culture

yes
suppose so
but sheesh
give me summat to moan about

Our pta is run by idiots who are lonely and try and find company wherever they can. I cannot believe the ideas they come up with and would love to be at a meeting so i could tell them all to get a grip. Most of them don't value education they are just severly lacking in social skills and are desperate to share their mouldy home made lemon curd. One of them asked me the other day if Island was attatched to Britain.
Yes i do come from a fine area, i have just managed to hit upon a school full of inbreds.

I'm sounding selfish here probably - I'm not, but I don't want to be taken advantage of by parents high-flying it while I do their kids homework and then go home and spend until 11pm workig in the office.

lol ff

I worked in a library once where they ran a homework club. It was brilliant - inroduced the kids to the library system and also we had laods of time to help the kids. We were getting paid obviously so didn't resent the time.

An island

you're turning into a grumpy old curmudgeon.

Ff

not an Ireland?

I think the point is that the parents are the ones who can't won't help (for whatever reason, and whatever degree of blame you want to attach) but the children suffer.
my parents never came to parents evening or helped me with hoemwork.
they were working (well my mum was)
they weren't educated enough
they didn't care
perm and two from three
I would have liked a homework club actually. as it was I used to lurk in the library for as long as I could.

"perm and two from three "

she had a perma t 3pm?

EVery day?

(ff may i just say how fkn marvellous it is to see you back. mwah mwah.)

yes
every single day
very bad for the cuticles

Why thankyou the one who carries the harpsichord, mwah

No not Ireland.

An Ireland.

Other quotes that come from her are......

Me: Do you remeber Orville?

Her: Who Orville and Dean?