Please pay $5 as deposit for Chance of a Lifetime

Check out the enthusiasm!

"Congratulations! 

Your child has been given the chance of a lifetime to experience first hand, elite youth sports at an international level."

And there are 'rules' which the kid must adhere to, in order to experience this 'chance of a lifetime':

• The kid must pay a deposit of $5, which will not be returned if he doesn't turn up.
• The kid must bring a water bottle, but it cannot have any logo printed on it. 
• A storybook to keep himself occupied with
• The kid cannot bring in outside food and beverages (I guess the water in his water bottle is OK). If he gets hungry, he can buy from the venue, i.e. Singapore Sports School.

I wonder who drafted that consent form (maybe it's the CCA teacher), and whether he/she felt anything while drafting it. It will be very sad if the drafter did it without the slightest hesitation.

Here's another similar letter.

Subsequently, MOE retracted the 'no logo' water bottle order. No meaning. 

Does no one involved in the entire chain of command (from YOG to MOE to school) have any common sense? 

If controlling the water bottles were so important, MOE/YOG should have told the kids not bring any water, then give out bottled water with allowable logos. How difficult can that be? Can't cost another $387million for a few bottles of water, right?

I wonder what will happen if the parents kept their kid at home. 

"Fuck this shite! Don't go to school on 19th Aug. 

Mummy will take leave and bring you to pierce your ears instead. 

After that, we go for high tea and spend some quality mother-daughter time."