Poor kids who couldn't pay $10 not allowed to join school carnival

[alfredmizen]

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[h=2]Poor N.Y. Students Banned from School Carnival for Failing to Pay $10 Fee[/h]About a hundred kids from PS 120 in New York were banned from joining the Queens schoolyard affair because their parents failed to pay the required fee.

About a hundred kids from PS 120 were not allowed to join the school's end-of-year festival because their parents were not able to pay the $10 fee. Most of them were from poor Chinese immigrant families who, as school staff described, were "struggling to keep their heads above water."

While other kids from their school enjoyed the Queens schoolyard affair, the poor students were guided into a dark auditorium where an old Disney movie played. There they stayed to wait it out, under the supervision of aides.
Meanwhile, they could hear the festivities outside.

"Are we being punished?" a student asked one of the aides when the movie stopped playing, the New York Post reported.

A 7-year-old girl cried "hysterically" because "she was the only one from her class who couldn't go, so she was very upset," a teacher said, according to the New York Post


I think the school principal (head teacher) handled this very poorly. We are talking about very young children (primary school) here. It was in school time so they all should have been allowed to join in. To divide kids based on wealth like that at that age is horrible, in my view.

It's in America, why are you making yourself busy about it ?

 

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[h=2]Poor N.Y. Students Banned from School Carnival for Failing to Pay $10 Fee[/h]About a hundred kids from PS 120 in New York were banned from joining the Queens schoolyard affair because their parents failed to pay the required fee.

About a hundred kids from PS 120 were not allowed to join the school's end-of-year festival because their parents were not able to pay the $10 fee. Most of them were from poor Chinese immigrant families who, as school staff described, were "struggling to keep their heads above water."

While other kids from their school enjoyed the Queens schoolyard affair, the poor students were guided into a dark auditorium where an old Disney movie played. There they stayed to wait it out, under the supervision of aides.
Meanwhile, they could hear the festivities outside.

"Are we being punished?" a student asked one of the aides when the movie stopped playing, the New York Post reported.

A 7-year-old girl cried "hysterically" because "she was the only one from her class who couldn't go, so she was very upset," a teacher said, according to the New York Post


I think the school principal (head teacher) handled this very poorly. We are talking about very young children (primary school) here. It was in school time so they all should have been allowed to join in. To divide kids based on wealth like that at that age is horrible, in my view.

On another continent, not life threatening, could not care less. Stop bedwetting over something that has no effect on you whatsover.

 

[Diablo]

Couldn`t or wouldn`t I ask?.......The parents decided they would spend money on something else and make a story of it......

 

[yxee]

Personally, I'd happily pay more to have kid's education enhanced.

At a carnival?

 

[brakespear]

Given as the Carnival went ahead anyway it doesn't sound like the missing funding from the poorer families made any difference so why not let the kids attend anyway? Makes the school sound like a bunch of miserable sods with possible ulterior motives.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

On foreign trips the teacher/carers are on a jolly! Getting paid to have a holiday! Nice work if you can get it!

The school trip to the Crimea that my brother went on resulted in the teacher in charge being arrested and jailed for doing dodgy currency deals.

Now that's what I call "educational".

 

[Nibble]

On foreign trips the teacher/carers are on a jolly! Getting paid to have a holiday! Nice work if you can get it!

Teachers Inset Days = Planning the next overseas/long haul trip!!

I personally couldn't think of much worse than supervising a large group of kids on a holiday but these trips are all voluntary so there must be some fun to be had.

As for Inset days, the teacher I went out with worked just as hard on those days as any other.

As an aside, she taught at Moulsecombe and one of their trips was to Brighton beach. Can you believe some of these kiddies, aged 5-8, had never been taken to the beach before?! The teachers ended up paying for ice creams for the kids out of their own pockets. That sort of thing, teachers dipping in to their own pockets, to ensure kids had a good day happened all too frequently. Let alone the teachers paying for things like art supplies out of their own pockets.

 

[sydney]

I personally couldn't think of much worse than supervising a large group of kids on a holiday but these trips are all voluntary so there must be some fun to be had.

As for Inset days, the teacher I went out with worked just as hard on those days as any other.

As an aside, she taught at Moulsecombe and one of their trips was to Brighton beach. Can you believe some of these kiddies, aged 5-8, had never been taken to the beach before?! The teachers ended up paying for ice creams for the kids out of their own pockets. That sort of thing, teachers dipping in to their own pockets, to ensure kids had a good day happened all too frequently. Let alone the teachers paying for things like art supplies out of their own pockets.

sounds like a nice lady....was she the one who wiggled you off into a bonfire...

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Couldn`t or wouldn`t I ask?.......The parents decided they would spend money on something else and make a story of it......

I guess paying the rent or putting the ten bucks towards the family food budget takes precedence. The good news to come out of this is all the kids will enjoy a free carnival in the summer now benefactors have stepped in to cover the costs. I note the Parents Association managed to clear a $4k profit on charging for the original event.

 

[Nibble]

Aren't some US schools funded by companies such as Coca Cola and Monsanto?
I'm sure I read an article about adverts for Coca Cola every few pages in the school text books. I know one lad in the states was suspended from school on "coca cola day", where reps from the company came and talked about how great Coca cola was , gave out free samples, did activities etc and have out Coke t shirts, they took a big group photo with the pupils all in coke t shirts, just as the camera snapped he lifted his coke shirt to reveal....A Pepsi shirt. He was then suspended.

Beggars belief.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Aren't some US schools funded by companies such as Coca Cola and Monsanto?
I'm sure I read an article about adverts for Coca Cola every few pages in the school text books. I know one lad in the states was suspended from school on "coca cola day", where reps from the company came and talked about how great Coca cola was , gave out free samples, did activities etc and have out Coke t shirts, they took a big group photo with the pupils all in coke t shirts, just as the camera snapped he lifted his coke shirt to reveal....A Pepsi shirt. He was then suspended.

Beggars belief.

Probably coming to the UK very shortly with the Education & Adoption Bill going through Parliament at present. Failing schools to be turned into academies sponsored by XXXXXX ?

 

[Nibble]

Probably coming to the UK very shortly with the Education & Adoption Bill going through Parliament at present. Failing schools to be turned into academies sponsored by XXXXXX ?

Ah, yes true. It's basically Tory's sitting around finding once sacred institutions to turn into profit. I hope people realise that once huge corporations get a grip on these services, there's no going back. It's one of the lynch pins of capitalism that it will resist fervently any attempt to un-commercialise something once it has been turned into a corporate entity.

 

[Stat Brother]

I know it is a sad story, but I never went on school trips or days-out all through Primary and Secondary as my mum couldn't afford it.
I had to sit in a small class-room with the other poor kids and spend the day doing nonsense work; colouring in, watching films, making bookmarks..!
Isn't that the norm?

You mean you never had the delight of eating your entire pack lunch, INC ICED GEMS, before the bus got out of the car park.
Then spend the rest of the day feeling sick through to starving.

 

[StonehamPark]

You mean you never had the delight of eating your entire pack lunch, INC ICED GEMS, before the bus got out of the car park.
Then spend the rest of the day feeling sick through to starving.

Nope, but I once did get fed up of not being allowed on school trips so snuck on the school bus to France for a day trip.

 

[Nibble]

We once went on a school trip to Ford Dagenham. That was a wild ride. Another trip saw us on a day out to Milton Keynes to see how a new town worked. Badly.

 

[gregbrighton]

Aren't some US schools funded by companies such as Coca Cola and Monsanto?
I'm sure I read an article about adverts for Coca Cola every few pages in the school text books. I know one lad in the states was suspended from school on "coca cola day", where reps from the company came and talked about how great Coca cola was , gave out free samples, did activities etc and have out Coke t shirts, they took a big group photo with the pupils all in coke t shirts, just as the camera snapped he lifted his coke shirt to reveal....A Pepsi shirt. He was then suspended.

Beggars belief.

That sounds awful. I hope we don't get that sort of infestation over here in our school.

Am I the only one to read it as Teachers Incest Day?

 

[Nibble]

That sounds awful. I hope we don't get that sort of infestation over here in our school.

Am I the only one to read it as Teachers Incest Day?

Sooty came to my school once. He was with Corbett, he didn't make his own way. I got a Sweep hand puppet and a pencil case. I now realise they were just corporate whores trying to convert us away from rivals such as Emu and Orvil. Such a cynical, cynical world we live in.

 

[gregbrighton]

Sooty came to my school once. He was with Corbett, he didn't make his own way. I got a Sweep hand puppet and a pencil case. I now realise they were just corporate whores trying to convert us away from rivals such as Emu and Orvil. Such a cynical, cynical world we live in.

Don't have a problem with that. Sooty and Sweep have educational value as well as being fairly passive characters. That's a whole world away from corporate brands aggressively exploiting and brainwashing children to buy their products. There is already enough of it the media and the outside world. It's a distraction from what they are suppose to be in school for.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Don't have a problem with that. Sooty and Sweep have educational value as well as being fairly passive characters. That's a whole world away from corporate brands aggressively exploiting and brainwashing children to buy their products. There is already enough of it the media and the outside world. It's a distraction from what they are suppose to be in school for.

Playing football in Clark's commandos, and getting ignored by girls?

 

[Nibble]

Don't have a problem with that. Sooty and Sweep have educational value as well as being fairly passive characters. That's a whole world away from corporate brands aggressively exploiting and brainwashing children to buy their products. There is already enough of it the media and the outside world. It's a distraction from what they are suppose to be in school for.

I know, the cynical thing was very tongue in cheek.