The school says it “admires” his entrepreneurship but he shouldn’t be allowed to set up a “black market”.
This is Tommie Rose, 15, a pupil at Buile Hill High School, Salford.
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It said he had managed to earn £14,000 to pay for his University fees by selling sweets in bulk in the playground, and had even employed two schoolfriends – both on £5.50 a day – to make the business a success. He apparently began selling them back in 2011 after being inspired by Dragon's Den and The Apprentice, and was suspended from his old school as a result, after bringing in £60-£70 a day.
We admire this pupil's entrepreneurship but school is not the place to set-up a black market of fizzy drinks, sweets and chocolates. We have extremely high standards and with our healthy eating policy we don't allow isotonic drinks, fizzy drinks and large amounts of sweets for the good of our children. Our high standards are set out to pupils and their parents at the start of the school year.
Tommie says he'd like to get a business degree from Oxford or Cambridge.
His parents both say they would struggle to pay the £9,000-a-year tuition fees required.
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