oops i think i have unwittingly started a war with dd's school

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i have certainly stirred some proverbial!

It must be a feepaying school surely? I mean it charges fees ...

yes a small but noisy bit of the uk

classed as a 'voluntary grammar'
you pay for some things and the rest is voluntary.
However we do pay the volunatry bit too.

i know this sounds like a rant about £6 , but of course it is the principal of the thing.
I just do not want the magazine.
and now this nonsense

Ah I understand - I heard about one of these schools recently where a lot of parents had stopped paying the 'voluntary fee' because of the credit crunch.

How much are the fees though?

if you are counting cookery stuff as fees, they're not fees but understandable extras.

if that's all you pay then i wouldn't begrudge £6 for a good education. State schools need all the extras they can get. In fact I would pay the £6 and not take the mag.

I'm confused - is this a state school? I thought state schools weren't actually allowed to charge compulsory fees.

Personally in this day and age I think all schools should be promoting environmental issues, such as cut down on waste, reuse, recycle, don't waste paper etc etc.
Perhaps a letter to the head pointing this out wouldn't go amiss.
If the school are strapped for cash then perhaps they should be trying to raise money via other methods.