School Bans Mother's Day

[mummabear]

https://www.stayathomemum.com.au/my-kids/primary-school-decides-to-ban-mothers-day/

Last week, Albert McMahon Elementary in Mission, British Colombia (Canada) has sent home a letter informing parents of the decision to cancel the Mother’s Day in order to “nurture students who are part of non-traditional families.”

Thoughts?

 

[Firsttimer15]

I like it, how awful must kids feel that don't have a mother. A "caretaker" or something like that could be done instead.

 

[Snap Crackle Pop]

I don't see anything wrong with it, there is plenty of time outside of school to celebrate their mothers and get their mothers a gift.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

https://www.stayathomemum.com.au/my-kids/primary-school-decides-to-ban-mothers-day/

Last week, Albert McMahon Elementary in Mission, British Colombia (Canada) has sent home a letter informing parents of the decision to cancel the Mother’s Day in order to “nurture students who are part of non-traditional families.”

Thoughts?

No thought actually. We've never had Mother's day activities at school when I was a kid nor have our kids had any. I would assume because Mother's day falls on a Sunday and it isn't all that big of a holiday.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

True story. The woman behind the adoption of mothers day came to resent it due to over commercialism of the holiday and was arrested for disturbing the peace protesting it.

 

[CarolAnn856]

When my son was in fifth grade, the mother of one of his classmates passed away from cancer. When my daughter was in first grade, the mother of one of her classmates died. Another child has two dads.

I think celebrating or acknowledging all kinds of families in school is appropriate. I see no need to celebrate either Mother's or Father's Day in school. That can be done at home.

 

[QueenIsabella]

I don't know why schools should be expected to do anything for Mother's Day. It's a Sunday, and as you said, not everyone has a mother. Sure, it's nice to get a homemade card, but my kids do that stuff on their own--when they were little, their dad would help them do something special for Mother's Day.

 

[Disneylover99]

The kindergarten kids make Mother's Day crafts at my school. I really don't like the idea of banning something as harmless as Mother's Day. It's a slippery slope. Of course teacher's should be sensitive to the family dynamics of students in their class. Teacher's don't need to talk about a mother as a female who gave birth.

verb

1. Mother
   bring up (a child) with care and affection.
   "the art of mothering"

Anybody who "mothers" a child should be celebrated.

 

[sam_gordon]

The kindergarten kids make Mother's Day crafts at my school. I really don't like the idea of banning something as harmless as Mother's Day. It's a slippery slope. Of course teacher's should be sensitive to the family dynamics of students in their class. Teacher's don't need to talk about a mother as a female who gave birth.

verb

1. Mother
   bring up (a child) with care and affection.
   "the art of mothering"

Anybody who "mothers" a child should be celebrated.

Well, let's get the facts right... they're not banning Mother's Day. The kids just won't make a little gift to give their mother. If you think about it, is it really a "gift" if the child is forced to make it AND every child makes the same item? The school isn't preventing kids from making their own gift or families going out and celebrating on their own. A quote from a dad from the article...

This will be the first year that we don’t get gifts crafted with love from our kids, and since we only have one little one now it makes it all that much worse... You cant celebrate your Mom and Dad?”

Read more at: https://www.stayathomemum.com.au/my-kids/primary-school-decides-to-ban-mothers-day/

How about he spend 30 minutes with his child and they craft something together?

 

[Poohforyou]

As someone who lost a parent when I was 8 I'm particularly sensitive to this. It's so hard being the kid who's different. I think it can be done with caring and not focus on the traditional definition of mother but any nurturing caregiver a child may have. The same can be done for father's day.

While it isn't necessary, of course, some kids have no other opportunity to make something crafty except in school. You'd be surprised, or not, on how many kids don't have art supplies at home.

 

[plutotek]

Just another example of the PC-police trying to coddle the potential snowflakes by shielding them from the real world.

 

[Disneylover99]

Well, let's get the facts right... they're not banning Mother's Day. The kids just won't make a little gift to give their mother. If you think about it, is it really a "gift" if the child is forced to make it AND every child makes the same item? The school isn't preventing kids from making their own gift or families going out and celebrating on their own. A quote from a dad from the article...

Title of the thread and article......School Ban's Mother's Day. Article talks about cancelling Mother's Day at school this year. Is that not the same thing? Are they really going to not cancel it next year? Using the word cancel instead of ban is just a PC way of talking.

Regardless, no child should be forced to make a gift.

 

[scrhsa]

As someone who lost a parent when I was 8 I'm particularly sensitive to this. It's so hard being the kid who's different. I think it can be done with caring and not focus on the traditional definition of mother but any nurturing caregiver a child may have. The same can be done for father's day.

While it isn't necessary, of course, some kids have no other opportunity to make something crafty except in school. You'd be surprised, or not, on how many kids don't have art supplies at home.

So true on the craft stuff. I had one family of kids at he school I work at tell me time and again that they didn't even have crayons at home. Usually, the little brothers destroyed them( there were 5 kids under age 6). Mom and dad didn't care at all. The little girl..the only girl...loved to color and craft too!!!

 

[Party.Of.4-NY>>>FL]

Just another example of the PC-police trying to coddle the potential snowflakes by shielding them from the real world.

Yup.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. In an effort to become tolerant of everything, we have become tolerant of nothing.

 

[Hikergirl]

 

[Hikergirl]

Its not really as bad as it seems, and besides Mother's Day or Father's Day should be celebrated at home. No reason a parent can't help their child make a gift for the other parent, its not something that has to be done in school anyway.

 

[E&Cmom]

This is a local story.

As a mother, I did get sad when the homemade gifts stopped due to my children's age. But honestly I don't see it as a bg deal. At our school some teacher choose to do Mother/Father Day gifts while others don't.

I can see how upsetting it could be to a child without a mother or father. I lost my Mom not as a child but at 26 and mother's day is still bittersweet to me.

 

[aprilchem]

I volunteered once in my son's class when they were doing Father's Day gifts - my kids go to a school where about 55% of the kids live in poverty, and there was one child there with an incarcerated father, one with no father (or father figure), and one whose father had died the previous year. It was very hard to make those children feel included in the craft, so I see why schools are doing this.

 

[Kellykins1218]

I think cancelling it is stupid.

 

[sunshinehighway]

Yup.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. In an effort to become tolerant of everything, we have become tolerant of nothing.

It sounds like you don't know what tolerant actual means.
This has nothing to do with tolerance or the pc police or any other buzz words used to make it seem like more than it is.
It's really much ado about nothing.

Just another example of the PC-police trying to coddle the potential snowflakes by shielding them from the real world.

How much of a heartless jerk do you have to be to refer to children who have lost a parent or for whatever reason are missing a parent in their lives as "potential snowflakes"..
Maybe the real snowflakes are adults that are so sensitive about their kid making a macaroni necklace at school.