Whats the world coming to?

[~ vortex ~]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/08022007/344/school-m other-s-day-ban-attacked.html Have the PC brigade gone too far this time?

[Pippa68]

When I was in primary school (early 70's) anyone without a mother or father could make a card for a grandparent, sibling or aunt/uncle etc.

Why on earth can't they do that now?

[raysparx1]

The world is going crackers, well Britain is,what is going on ? I was told a little while ago, not to call the tenants "love" as this is offensive, sorry not tenants "Customers" although I have known most of them for 25 years, I take no notice of it, I called one tenant "Madam" to see her reaction,and she asked me if i was ok

[naz_nomad]

I'd take my kid out of that school ... would you want yours to be taught by people like that?

[Pippa68]

No naz..I would have something to say about it, that's for sure. It's blinking ridiculous!

ray ~ I am sure they looked at you funny. I wouold much prefer 'love' to 'madam'. Madam sounds way too harsh..and in any case, what if they were a mademoiselle? ;o)

[naz_nomad]

Ray, I can see how you made that honest mistake ... the stiletto boots, basque and whip certainly gave the wrong impression.

[dot.hawkes]

that is ridiculous, there were kids in my primary school without mums, (1960-1967) including the orphans from Quarry Mount orphanage on Greetby Hill just along from the school, but the teachers were always able to find a type of card for them to make, it isn't right at all and parents need to make their voices heard. I have not been able to buy a mothers day card since 2000 but i send my godmother one every year and she has no children of her own and she is delighted with it. people have no imagination or common sense, greeting card companies make mothers day cards for that many female relations these days hy shouldn't kids do the same!

[unruliejulie]

I would so hate to be called madam!!!!
Even in the nursing profession we got told we couldnt call the patients, patients anymore but they were now to be known as clients!!! WTF?????????? They were all mentally handicapped who had been in there for years and years, and im not being awful but they wouldnt have had a clue anyway .bloody clients, i ask ya!
Vortex, this is ridiculous, maybe we should just stop doing anything, celebrating anything etc.... cause there is always someone out there to be offended. Well, what about offending all those hard working Mums whos biggest joy in life is to get a home made card from their little one????

[Pippa68]

Very well said, Unrulie!

[devilwoman]

as a person who grew up without a mum, i sympathize with the 5% who have to suffer the pain of shame and humilaiation of the other kids excited chatter of what the're making/ giving to their mums.
when i was seven i gave a mothers day card that i made at school to one of the careworkers in the childrens home,
( i never asked to make this card, i was just expected to do it,) anyway she looked at it in distgust and thrust it back at me saying , i'm not your mum.
after that anything which refered to mother or father, including letters from school, went straight in the bin, before i reached the home.

[makemesmile]

Whilst I sympathise with anyone in the 5% (like devilwoman) I don't understand why the minority keep taking priority over the majority. Bit of a tongue-twister, I know, but I just don't get it.

[B00]

Awwwww devilwoman your post was really sad, what a bloody vicious woman she sounded!

[sophie_1003]

at my school they explained the term mothering sunday as not being about just mums but about anyone who mothers i.e. takes care of us, so then even if you had a mum you could choose to make the card for someone else who looks after you, as long as it is dealt with in the correct way there should be no reason why mothering sunday cannot be celebrated in schools!

[makemesmile]

In my school, we were taught that Mothering Sunday was a day when people returned home to attend a service at their 'mother' church - seeing mum wasn't really the focus.

[wallis1007]

people like this need shafting. My daughter (8) went to school today in all the snow. Due to some teachers not been able to turn up they had limited lessons, the rest of the time the kids where allowed to have snowball fights. This the same school that does not allow conkers, marbles and oh yeah, snowballing. Doh

[devilwoman]

think you're slightly off topic there wallis1007

: 0 )

[kaylamay]

seems to me to set apart this 5% of children will bring discord
from the other 95% towards them. So, what, 1 child in the class is "motherless" so the rest have to suffer? That's ridiculous! I agree that that child can make a nice card to give to whoever takes care of them. It doesn't have to say mother.
This politically correct crap really gets my goat!

[devilwoman]

dont think they suffer cos they dont nmake a card at school,
any relative can help them make one at home, like granny, aunty, big sister, or they can buy one, cards are cheap nowadays.

[Pippa68]

I agree in a way, devilwoman ~ however te point of making things at school is part of the learning process, and indeed their education.

Not every parent is at home to help the child make..so many kids are at school, childminders or after school clubs because the parents have to work..and weekends are often taken up by the normal homework or going out doing physical activities with the family.

Banning the making of cards because it may hurt others feelings is sending the wrong message ~ it is saying that it is ok for one set of children to be hurt, but not another. So many children love making their family cards..in fact it one of the only things my autistic daughter loved about school (she is now at college studying media art).

On a brighter note, it appears conkers are coming back...yay!

[alijangra]

She didnt 'ban' it, she choose not to make it part of a lesson to save the feelings of the motherless children. Can you imagine if any of you died and next year your child had to sit and make a mothers day card and be told 'just give it too someone else'.

[Pippa68]

That doesn't make sense. Thousands of people lose a family member every day..life has to go on for the living, I'm afraid ~ and it's people like this teacher who hinder that.

Mothers Day would be hard every year after someones mum dies. Stopping the other kids making cards isn't the answer.

Oversensitivity is misplaced in schools and other organisations. Maybe if they placed more thought in other areas we wouldn't have the problems in schools that we have?