So How Many Bill And Bens Do They Go Through In This Establishment?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-42008669
Load of lefty jacks taking the hit. Put a bin lid in yourselves then!

[New Judge]

“Are you suggesting the headteacher of this school in the Prime Ministers constituency is being paid an eye watering salary?”

I don’t know which Head Teacher you are talking about, Gromit. But it doesn’t matter. My criticism would be of any authority which pays the head teacher of a primary school a six-figure salary, regardless of where it is, what party its MP represented or what colour the local authority was.

“If not, I am not sure why you have posted links to others who are high paid?”

Because they were the first two (of many) who were presented when I searched for overpaid primary school heads. The question is about schools having insufficient funds for pens and paper. I’ve identified two areas where fortunes can be saved.

[fiction-factory]

Youa re probably right abiut teh fees for Jeremy Hunt's school, Gromit. You could have chosen Jeremy Corbyn's old prep school (or his Grammar school - was he a boarder?) - I wonder what their fees are?

[Jackdaw33]

When I was at grammar school in the 60s we had to provide our own pens and other stationery. The only thing the school provided were exercise books.

[Deskdiary]

I pay what I consider to be a lot in tax - in fact I think I pay more than my fair share - and therefore I expect, and deserve, my kids to be adequately catered for in school.

I have a child in secondary school and a child in primary school, and I have letters from both with "suggested" contribution amounts (which, by the way, they want by direct debit) which would cost me approx £600 a year.

The view I take is that I've already paid for this with the stupid amount of tax we are required to pay in this country.

If my kids need extra equipment for school, I will buy it for them.

If other parents cannot afford to buy extra equipment for their kids, well i couldn't give a tinker's cuss. Their money issues are not my issues.

[Samuraisan]

Well said Deskdiary. I would feel the same.

[cassa333]

They are teens Bednobs but until last week works n the infant school.

[youngmafbog]

I paid my taxes (eye watering sums) and then funded the school at around 12K year plus books uniforms skiing hockey tennis etc etc.

You do what you have to for your saucepans.