Parents asked for £1 a day to pay for school stationary.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-42008669If Labour had got into power and added 20% to the cost of private education, state schools would also have had to cope with a sudden influx of kids due to parents no longer being able to afford private school fees, so Labour and Tories are as bad as each other. Problem is that currently there's no credible alternative.
How much is this headteacher on? I'm betting it's a six figure salary, and I also bet he went into teaching for the 'kids' and stayed for the sense of 'fulfilment'!
Charlatans everywhere!
I don't necessarily believe this. It's just a story Labour and the left can utilise to clobber the government with.
I've worked in Education and the waste is phenomenal in schools. Not to mention Headteachers are now on vastly inflated six figure wages. A little restraint on pay at the top would go much further.
They should divert the £1 to pay for the referendum divorce bill.
Maybe they can't afford to buy pens as they're now expected to make additional contributions to teachers pension pots. Maybe the teachers who always put the kids first should think about that - after all, they're probably earning, in a lot of cases, more than the parents!
In reality what we have here is a Lefty Head teacher who has been approached by Labour central office and asked "Can you help us embarrass May".
How very convenient to Labour that this school just happens to be in the PM’s constituency! Also a very convenient quote from ‘a parent’. It stinks of yet another Labour set up. What about the Headmaster? Is he on £100k a year? Is he a Labour supporter? What left wing teachers union is he a member of? As usual the Beeb are very selective in their reporting. More facts please. No credibility Beeb!
My partner is a secondary school maths teacher and she regularly buys pens with her own money to hand to kids who don't bring their own. You might say if they don't have a pen they miss out - but then they don't do the work and end up disrupting the whole class (as well as making her performance look bad when it comes to review time).
Wait... this is news? I thought schools have been asking parents for voluntary donations for decades.
Anyway, why shouldn't parents be encouraged to contribute towards their children's education? I'm sure £190 per year is not beyond the reach of most people living in Maidenhead. The hard-working taxpayer shouldn't need to pay for everything, should they?
"So you personally know for a fact how much money they have been given and have proof it was enough but they have spent it poorly? No consideration that the amount they have been given is not enough for the job they are being asked to do then huh?"
Yes. I'm at Huxlow, Wellingborough - it's the same. Massive waste, bureaucracy, socialist thinking, ballooning salaries - a bit like the EU.
667. Alison
"When I went to school we had to take our own crayons, pencils and pens once we were at school"
Sorry Alison but we can't have the poor feeling left out or inferior because they have standard pencils while your kids have shiny new ones, we all have to dumb down to the lowest and cheapest nowadays.