help me understand why

[elfsmum]

the catholic school my children go to ask for school development fund of £1.00 per week for each child - which would total £78.00 for the school year for my 2 (£20.00 of which goes to the archdiocese)

when the catholic school my sisters children go to only ask for the levy for the archdiocese.

my school state that it's to help towards events in school, theatre productions etc, but we still get asked to pay for these too.

a visit to a country park with a manor is costing £3.75 each for the 40 children in my son's reception year, and the 40 in year 1 - which is comparable to what my sister has to pay in her school

soory if this shouldn't be in the religion part, but thought it should be with it being about catholic schools

that does sound abit odd tbh but can't understnad why either!

Not sure it's about the school being catholic? Ds's go to a non-demonination school and we also get asked to pay £1 a week and also have to pay for trips etc. I think it's just a way for the school to make (much needed) money!

I've no experience of non-denomination schools, but I knew that with the DC's going to Catholic school there would be levy's to pay for the church.

and I'm all for supporting the school for funds, we do lots of events to raise money for the PTA.

it was just the difference between 2 schools, in the same local authority area, asking for differing amounts but still "charging" the same for school trips.

we don't get told how much is raised, what it's spent on, how the children/school benefit, if I'm handing over £78 i really want to know what it's being spent on and what benefit is being derived.

I went to Catholic school, and we never paid to the Church, rather the Church pays money to the school.

our catholic schools don't pay to the church! the church subsidises the school.

sounds odd to me

and i went to 3 different catholic schools in my lifetime... and with my sisters, that's another 4 in total =7 no payments to the church.

My understanding is that schools can no longer exclude children from school trips etc because they can't pay. Maybe the fund is to pay for those who can't (or won't) - ie you might be paying extra for other people's children?