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Status races - PTA school fete wars hot up

Geoff Riley

27th June 2009

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This delightful feature in the Times looks at the increasingly bitter battle to offer the best prizes or the most opulent home-made food for Parent Teacher Association events. The school fete provides an ideal breeding ground for Mum and Dad to display their high relative income. From the rapid bidding wars at prize auctions to organic meat providing the stuffing for £6 burgers, here we have yet further proof of the desire to be seen consuming and offering more than your rivals. It is a welcome relief that some schools are making a point of scaling back such displays of wealth and going back to basics.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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