Shitty private schools
My missus works at a private school where it cost something like £15,000 per year for a child to attend.

Last week the colour copier in the infants was disabled by management because "they are making too many colour copies". This is shitty because the little kids don't use textbooks so the teachers need to make them handouts etc. and when you're learning about the basics (see Spot's ball - the ball is red!), then colour really helps.

The thing I don't get is that the management is basically saying that they're spending too much money on their pupil's education, which is kind of the point of a school. If I was a hard-nosed businessman it makes perfect sense: there are too few schools compared to the number of applicants they get each year so they can abuse their position as much as they like.

As far as I can tell, the parents know nothing.

Is it like this in other private schools? And how best to get a message out to the parents anonymously?

Alt Q: I'm reading the "Red Mars" series right now and loving it, what else would I like?

EDIT: This isn't the first time they've implemented some new rule which makes teaching the kids harder and just makes them more money.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:13, 111 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Surely it'd be cheaper to simply buy textbooks?
Colour copies of anything is always expensive, so often isn't worth it.

Get some paper, print the word 'FUCK' on it in 1% blank, and repeat over and over. If nothing else, it'll make her feel better.

Alt: Sorry, never heard of them.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:17, Reply)

/QOTW is that way >

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:22, Reply)

Thanks!

(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:23, Reply)

Off you pop then Nakers.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:25, Reply)

My father was a don at Winchester and before that, Cheltenham.
His experiences at both have led me to believe that they are run by cunts, spastics and wankers. Winchester College owns property worth (at a guess) at least a hundred million quid, and the fees the boys pay are astronomical. And yet they feed the boys sub-prison slop (I worked part-time in the kitchens at two boarding houses as a teen) and my mother was forced to run the drama wardrobe from a freezing attic for about ten years before they bought her a heater.

Alt: they sound shit. I recommend you delete your account and kill yourself forthwith.

EDIT - thinking about all those kids is making ME harder. Hope this helps.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:25, Reply)

I suspected that this was the norm for private schools.
Sad it's commonplace.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:34, Reply)

They are private businesses and as such, stingy bastards.
This is the way of the world, is it not?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:35, Reply)

These kids won't suffer
If their parents can afford to send them to a £15k per year school then they've probably got a pretty good head start in life anyway.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:36, Reply)

Yeah I know. It's the crappy attitude towards the whole "school as a business" I don't like.

(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:38, Reply)

Commie bastard.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:41, Reply)

You should camp out outside the school to protest like the mad old women did at Greenham Common.
As you are coming across as a mad old woman.

Alt: Stick them up your ringpiece.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:28, Reply)

Just tried, they don't fit. I'll try them one at a time in the future.

(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:35, Reply)

I shred mine first - little tip for you there.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:36, Reply)

I'll not be shredding my anus any time soon thankyou.

(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:38, Reply)

I've got a little tip for you.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:39, Reply)

No you don't. Oy vey!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:40, Reply)

Oy very what?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:45, Reply)

Pardon?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:46, Reply)

I said "All bummers are deaf"

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:47, Reply)

Alt: you might like it round here if you can put up with being advised to kill yourself on a daily basis.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:37, Reply)

P.S. Delete your account and kill yourself

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:38, Reply)

Have you not killed yourself yet?
FFS Tango, get a wiggle on.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:40, Reply)

I'm waiting for KFC to provide a vegetarian alternative

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:43, Reply)

WE know you love cock

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:44, Reply)

Why does one
have to delete one's account before killing oneself?

I mean, if you were going to kill yourself would you worry about your B3ta account?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:41, Reply)

It's just good manners.
Something you know nothing about.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:42, Reply)

I don't need manners.
I am better than everybody else.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:44, Reply)

There he goes again with his "chosen people" schtick

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:46, Reply)

In the beginning there was the Word
And that word was Stunned.

If it's good enough for the Almighty....
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:49, Reply)

I find the old
'utterly convinced of your own racial superiority and having a paranoid obsession with keeping your bloodlines pure' aspect of Judaism to be irono-lol-tastic in the extreme. Remind you of anyone else?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:50, Reply)

Black people?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:52, Reply)

Don't remind me of them, please.
I have a somewhat delicate constitution.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:54, Reply)

No, they are always sleeping with "our women"

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:55, Reply)

So she was YOUR woman?
/film
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:57, Reply)

set fire to yourself outside the school.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:40, Reply)

Immolation in the face of minor budget cuts is the only sensible option
Now where is al to complain about the governments deficit reduction....
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:48, Reply)

Are you mad?
With that much fat it'd be like Hiroshima!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:49, Reply)

I didn't really read all of the op.
I just like telling people to set fire to themselves.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:49, Reply)

You also don't need to be a qualified teacher at a private school apparently
I'd go for 6' high sign on the gate:

Deer Pairenz,

We'z been dun riped ov

Luv n hugzses
Shippy
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:41, Reply)

They'd take notice if you were fiddling with their kids.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:43, Reply)

I thought that went without saying

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:44, Reply)

It would have to be light fiddling
because you wouldn't want the kid so traumatized that they didn't say anything to a parent. No threatening to kill their siblings or their Nanna.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:46, Reply)

what's this thread got to do with orange Wednesday?
can someone gaz me an explanation along with a valid orange Wednesday code for today. I wanna see chronicle.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:42, Reply)

Perhaps this makes me a bleeding heart, weepy, hand-wringing liberal Guardian reader
but once bills such as pay and maintenance have been deducted, shouldn't all available money go towards education? Why does a school need to turn a profit?
( Kroney, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:44, Reply)

To keep Monty's Dad in Thai whores

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:45, Reply)

Oh right.
I thought it would be taken as read that perks would go in under the maintenance heading. I wasn't prepared for having to spell this sort of thing out. You're obviously not an old boy, Sporto.
( Kroney, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:46, Reply)

hahaha!
The thought of me going to a private school is a good one, or that my parents would pay!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:47, Reply)

Is your Mum well tight?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:51, Reply)

No, she's like a melted welly top

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:54, Reply)

I'd tear that up.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:57, Reply)

You'd be the 783rd
this week
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:13, Reply)

No it just makes you stupid
Or naive.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:50, Reply)

Yeah? Go on then, enlighten me.

( Kroney, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:54, Reply)

I think that if the business has publicly sold shares then they have a legal obligation to produce/maximise their profits.
I may be way off though.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:27, Reply)

Do people actually float schools?

( Kroney, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:28, Reply)

Yes.
A great many were floated across Asia on December 26th 2004.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:31, Reply)

inappropriatelollingtime

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:40, Reply)

topical reference there Monty
Japan might have been a better option.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:50, Reply)

Not sure.
Also inappropriate lols.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:46, Reply)

My old school now charges upwards of £30k a year
And I think you can all tell what good it did me.

In other news I almost shat myself in a meeting just now, my morning coffee had a profound effect on my bowels
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:50, Reply)

Piss yourself?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:51, Reply)

It's good but it's not right

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:55, Reply)

Drastic cuts to the spelling budget when you were there, really hit hard.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:52, Reply)

Naked Ape was patient zero for the experimentation in the
"as long as they can sort of make themselves understood, we shouldn't bully the little lambs into proper spelling and grammar" ideology. He was such a roaring success, they applied it countrywide.

I forsee no chance of falling standards in literacy and literature as a result.
( Kroney, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:56, Reply)

hahaha

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:00, Reply)

What about your plates? I do hope they were unaffected.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:53, Reply)

proper officelols

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:54, Reply)

I understand that incontinence is not uncommon among the bowls playing community.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:54, Reply)

now edited, due iphone being stupid

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:58, Reply)

Yeah blame the iPhone, that'll work.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 9:59, Reply)

So much bullying
I think i may flounce
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:18, Reply)

Chance'd be a fine thing.

( Kroney, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:21, Reply)

: (((((((((((((((

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:22, Reply)

Do you want me to flounce on your behalf?
I hardly get to be here at the moment as it is.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:24, Reply)

would you, thanks awfully

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:25, Reply)

It was your iPhone?
I didn't know the Jews had their own iPhones?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:00, Reply)

Yeah, the ay ay o-vey phone.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:24, Reply)

Wait a sec, you don't use textbooks? You just make photo-copies of them?
Next up I'm going to start up a cinema where I'll just download copies of the films from the internet.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:11, Reply)

It's not quite like that.

You're allowed to reproduce something like 1 chapter or 10% of a book. The missus works in textbook publishing as it happens, so I could ask her the exact detail, but frankly I can't be arsed.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:22, Reply)

A bit of this too.

(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:53, Reply)

No - handouts/drawing sheets and stuff is made for each class.
Little buggers (3 to 4 year olds) can hardly read so text books are a bit pointless.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:22, Reply)

Sounds like the parents
would be better off sending their little Tarquins and Jemimas to a state school and bunging the board of governors a couple of grand each year to make sure there are adequate resources.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:18, Reply)

I agree, but the difference here is that the school is multilingual and caters for international students
I think they want their kids taught in their native language in addition to the local language.
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:24, Reply)

Surely then,
the parents deserve to know that the operators of the school they're shelling out thousands for are penny pinching cunts?
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:30, Reply)

That's the thing.
We think that should happen, but how to do it without getting the missus in the shit?
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:52, Reply)

I was privately educated and my name is neither Tarquin nor jemima

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:24, Reply)

Shut it, Casper.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:25, Reply)

hahaha
Actually i do have a relatively "posh" name, but it's not casper
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:27, Reply)

Rupert?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:37, Reply)

Nonsense
Everyone knows his name
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:37, Reply)

I'm not sure 'that fucking wanker Nakers' is his real name, you know.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:38, Reply)

Haha
I'm not joining in with all of Ape's games.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:38, Reply)

is it
Norm?
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:49, Reply)

Augustus?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:38, Reply)

Marmaduke?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:39, Reply)

Fabian?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:40, Reply)

Naked?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:40, Reply)

Clitoris?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:43, Reply)

hahaha!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:47, Reply)

Methusala?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:47, Reply)

Mandingo?

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 11:01, Reply)

A quote from a Flashman book, re private schools.
They don't teach the 3 Rs, but the 3 Bs. Beatings, buggery and bad food. Pretty true really.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:42, Reply)

Lawrence Olivier was buggered in my school library, FACT
i think that's what turned him bent
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:43, Reply)

Being a big Mary turned him bent.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:47, Reply)

and you?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:47, Reply)

behind the cricket pavillion

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:48, Reply)

in the science labs

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:50, Reply)

in the head boy's study

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:51, Reply)

in the cloisters

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:51, Reply)

ouch.
your poor cloisters.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:53, Reply)

there were boys running up and down all day long :(

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 7 Mar 2012, 10:54, Reply)