Jack Monroe #332 A doctor, a teacher and a ceramicist walk into a bar

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Onestorytoomany said:
My child school has recently requested unwanted pants and socks. I am not sure why they didn't specify. His school is for older children so I think the risk of accidents shouldn't be an issue. I am assuming its perhaps due to children going without. The very thought makes me sad!
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Blisters - I had it with a pair of shoes bought with the then available school clothing grant; they were bleeding by the time I got to school and by the time I'd walked home, there was a squelching noise from the amount of blood. Naturally, I was told I had to keep wearing them because there wasn't any money for another pair until I grew out of them. I lied and said that they'd been stolen when I was in PE, so wore hideous £4.99 pink trainers from the market for the next term, getting the piss ripped out of me by kids and threats of detention from teachers..

Period arrival.

Some bladder/bowel conditions.

Injuries.

Outgrowing things.


and some who are going without clean or properly fitting/non holey clothing, whether due to neglect, poverty or living in unsuitable accommodation.


We managed to get the OK/budget to buy new ones and the head of PE used a huge chunk of their budget to buy and install a washing machine and tumble drier in their office, supposedly for washing match kit, but more because it's easy to stick a kid in spare PE kit whilst their actual clothes are in the wash. There's an awful lot of 'Oh, I forgot to note down who had that donated school shirt, silly me'.


Call me a raging socialist if you like, but I think it would be a really good idea if schools were funded to be able to issue a complete set of uniform for kids in their first term, all the way down to a pack of socks. Still wouldn't solve everything, we'd still be either officially or unofficially giving kids stuff on the side, but I'd bet uniform policies would be properly affordable for all the other years if all the Year 7s' came out of the GAG.
 
Boyo said:
Here’s some of it…

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Absolutely vile. Why not just say, “no, I have donated other things but want to sell these”, or God forbid, ignore the charity shop advice?

She just has to get in a grandiose mega boast about how she has helped charities on a daily basis for a decade and how dare anyone suggest she gives even more. That’s the narc “hero” part.

And then a bit of poor fishing about God forbid she wants even a meagre thing for herself such as a stable home. That’s the narcissistic martyr/victim part.

Usually what triggers Jack into a tirade is either criticism, or people pointing out that she earns a fortune, or that she’s very middle class. This time what has triggered her is the mere suggestion that she could donate to a charity shop. Why is that so triggering I wonder?
 
Ostapbender said:
Catholic Jack coming soon to a Mass near you 🙏
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Oh, oh, HELL NO.


(and her mother would have a duck ton to say about that).

As would everybody else at Mass, including the Priest. Can you imagine Reconciliation? She'd be expecting poor old Fr Brian/Kofi/Aidan/Whatever to repent his sins to her and be really offended if he suggested that she wasn't actually a Prophet.
 
TheDragonWithAFlagon said:
Oh, oh, HELL NO.


(and her mother would have a duck ton to say about that).

As would everybody else at Mass, including the Priest. Can you imagine Reconciliation? She'd be expecting poor old Fr Brian/Kofi/Aidan/Whatever to repent his sins to her and be really offended if he suggested that she wasn't actually a Prophet.
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Fr Longsuffering: Right Jack, this week your penance is 10 Hail Marys and 5 Our Fathers. Off you pop.
Jack: How *literal* dare you tell me what to do. I'm contacting my lawyer.
 
TheDragonWithAFlagon said:
Oh, oh, HELL NO.


(and her mother would have a duck ton to say about that).

As would everybody else at Mass, including the Priest. Can you imagine Reconciliation? She'd be expecting poor old Fr Brian/Kofi/Aidan/Whatever to repent his sins to her and be really offended if he suggested that she wasn't actually a Prophet.
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Jack heading to Confession, only to be told to her delight that it's not a sin to be "too brave"
 
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