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Santiago Street

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My daughter's starting secondary school in September. The welcome letter "invites" us to make a contribution to the school of £60 per year.

I've never objected to making donations of a fiver or a tenner to cover the cost of day trips while at primary school but forking out £60 p.a to "support development opportunities in and across school" strikes me as money for old rope.

Would you pay it ?
 
Santiago Street . said:
My daughter's starting secondary school in September. The welcome letter "invites" us to make a contribution to the school of £60 per year.

I've never objected to making donations of a fiver or a tenner to cover the cost of day trips while at primary school but forking out £60 p.a to "support development opportunities in and across school" strikes me as money for old rope.

Would you pay it ?
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Advise them that you have made your contribution already via the tax on your earnings. Then slap the headmaster/mistress just to leave them under no illusions who is the fucking boss in the relationship.
 
In Jan I just paid over $1500 in donations to a state run school here in WA, part of it was for options but a large part of it was a 'voluntary' contributions. Which you are expected to pay...

The daughter came home with a letter yesterday asking of she can go on a school trip, I nearly fell off my fookin chair when I saw it was for a $4.5k trip to France, wtf?

I said no and told her the story of my mum n dad not being able to afford to send me to alton towers as a kid, didn't go down too well..
 
wayne71 said:
In Jan I just paid over $1500 in donations to a state run school here in WA, part of it was for options but a large part of it was a 'voluntary' contributions. Which you are expected to pay...

The daughter came home with a letter yesterday asking of she can go on a school trip, I nearly fell off my fookin chair when I saw it was for a $4.5k trip to France, wtf?

I said no and told her the story of my mum n dad not being able to afford to send me to alton towers as a kid, didn't go down too well..
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$1500 in donations, what the fuck ? Here's me moaning about £60 :)
 
Santiago Street . said:
wayne71 said:
In Jan I just paid over $1500 in donations to a state run school here in WA, part of it was for options but a large part of it was a 'voluntary' contributions. Which you are expected to pay...

The daughter came home with a letter yesterday asking of she can go on a school trip, I nearly fell off my fookin chair when I saw it was for a $4.5k trip to France, wtf?

I said no and told her the story of my mum n dad not being able to afford to send me to alton towers as a kid, didn't go down too well..
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$1500 in donations, what the fuck ? Here's me moaning about £60 :)
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$1500 in Aus is worth about 60p in the UK
 
Santiago Street . said:
My daughter's starting secondary school in September. The welcome letter "invites" us to make a contribution to the school of £60 per year.

I've never objected to making donations of a fiver or a tenner to cover the cost of day trips while at primary school but forking out £60 p.a to "support development opportunities in and across school" strikes me as money for old rope.

Would you pay it ?
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I'd be telling them to swing but it's your call mate.
 
I wouldn't pay.

Our state education system wastes millions.

Council offices are full of 'education officers' on good wages who do next to nothing.

And nowadays schools hire legions of low quality admin staff on reasonable wages (often local mums) when one or two half competent people could replace them all.
 
urmston said:
I wouldn't pay.

Our state education system wastes millions.

Council offices are full of 'education officers' on good wages who do next to nothing.

And nowadays schools hire legions of low quality admin staff on reasonable wages (often local mums) when one or two half competent people could replace them all.
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And we don't need those scrimshankers they call headteacher. They've not taught a lesson since Queen Victoria last went to school. We could employ a Site Manager at a fraction of the salary!
 
Its a donation you don't have to pay it,I'm surprised you got through junior school without being asked. We pay by DD both primary and secondary,I don't begrudge it,it helps pay for extra stuff for the price of a pint a month.
 
I remember when my eldest started high school. Trinity CofE in Hulme. She came home with a letter stating that all school trips are free but we ask all parents to set up some sort of voluntary direct debit. Think I might have lost that letter.

Turns out the free trips thing was bollocks too.

What did concern me though was two of my other children didn't get in there. Despite living about 100 yards away and going to their affiliated C of E junior school.

Sometimes wondered if the two things were connected. Especially when I know of kids coming from as far a field as Rochdale and Bolton to go to that school.
 
Is it an academy school?

I've never heard of this before, I wouldn't pay it.
They won't hold it against you or your child.
 
117 M34 said:
Is it an academy school?

I've never heard of this before, I wouldn't pay it.
They won't hold it against you or your child.
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Don't think it's an academy, it's Loreto in Alty.

It is a Catholic school which might explain it
 
Santiago Street . said:
117 M34 said:
Is it an academy school?

I've never heard of this before, I wouldn't pay it.
They won't hold it against you or your child.
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Don't think it's an academy, it's Loreto in Alty.

It is a Catholic school which might explain it
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It is a grammar school. They will be getting enough in fees from the wealthy.

Maybe TGR can advise if he pays donations as his child goes to a grammar school - which is going to make his child a genius.
 
Apologies for taking things a bit off topic but I'm not that interested in the answer that I can be arsed starting a thread on it.

Anyway, does anyone know how things work at Kings David's school in Prestwich? For those who don't know, it is now an academy but was previously a state school and always was and presumably still is, head and shoulders above any other non private school in Manchester in terms of results achieved.

Someone once told me that the main way they achieve this in by in effect being a private school in all but name. And every parent makes a substantial "voluntary" contribution BEFORE their child is accepted.

I've no idea if there's any truth in this. I can't even remember who told it me it was that long ago.

Anybody go there or send their kids their?
 
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