School ban of mothers day cards?

Question

So that kids without mothers wont be offended. What do you think?

Answer 1

The headteacher is an idiot. She will also have to ban father's day, Easter, Christmas, in fact anything at all that does not encompass every single child.

Answer 2

Things are getting too extreme! Yes, it is a horrible situation but the child will have someone that they love that they can make a card for instead. How about the kids that do have mums that want to make the cards? Nothing better than a homemade effort to give to someone. I remember being so proud of all the cards I made for my parents.
Someone has to make a stand shortly as things are getting way out of hand.
(Or was this a hypothetical question? I really hope it is as I would be flabbergasted to think a school really had made the ban! Worse than banning the 3 little pigs! Great story in my opinion!Or Baa baa black sheep. Kids aren't prejudice, racist,etc - it's just the adults that teach them to be that way and making a song and dance about things is just bringing stuff to attention which might otherwise have never been noticed.)

Answer 3

I disagree...I love being an American, but come on.....lets quit being afraid of offending people.....I'm so tired of things getting taken away from some people, jsut because some other group says it offends them. no matter what you do someone will be offended.

Tell you what, I am offended that I have to be so darn careful with everything I do or say because I might offend someone and they might sue me or my school or my work place. Are we grown ups or not......help the children deal with the fact that they don't have a mom or dad or what ever and they'll grow up to be well adjusted kids. Don't take away something as fun and creative in school of making cards for your parents for the other kids, just because some don't have one.

I guess if it's offensive than maybe the "holiday" should be taken off the calendars. For god sakes we even have grandparents day, is that offensive to people who's grandparents died???

If the child doesn't have a mother, they can make a card for their father or grandmother or Aunt or any other significant woman/person in their life. Same goes for Father's day cards.

Answer 4

When you say school ban on mother's day cards are you actually reffering to them simply not making the cards in art lessons. Choosing not to do something is not the same as a ban. It seems that the term ban is often used to sensationalise things mainly in the Sun and Daily Mail. It's hardly like kids caught in possesion of a mothers day card will be punished. Though I do have a strong dislike for the looney left and their stupid attempts to avoid ever offending anyone.

Answer 5

I think it's stupid, my mother walked out when I was 3 and I grew up without her, whenever Mother's day came around I made a card for my Dad, after all he was not only being a father to me but a mother as well.

It's upsetting when you have an absent mother but the 5% of children who this headteacher his trying to protect could face trouble from other pupils who want to make cards for their mothers. Did the head not think that the she's singling out the minority.

Also she's banned making the cards in favour of the minority but doesn't that mean she's discriminating against the remaining 95%?

She should have left it as it is and the 5% could make cards for other members of their family or if they find it too upsetting find something else for them to do.

Answer 6

It might not even be about that! My wife works with pre-school children who are assigned to her class due to a certain income level. She is not allowed to teach or celebrate any "holiday" in her lessons. Mothers day and Fathers day included. It is more for the fact that with the income being as low as they are. They might not have the means to get anyone the little gifts of love. We all know how kids treat kids. With lower income kids looked down on, it is there way of trying to make everyone equal. Just a different way to look at it.

Answer 7

I think it's awful!! First off, there's alot more kids without fathers out there than those without mothers!!! If a child doesn't have a mother, they still need to learn to appriciate the other women in their lives like Grandma and Aunts. They could give cards to them!! They'll be dealing with mothers day for years to come and it hurts nobody to have them learn to take notice of the good women in their lives.

Answer 8

DUMB!! We are getting to PC now. It isn't Christmas Break-it's Winter Holdiay. No days off for Easter. Why not have the kids who might be offended make a card for someone who "mother's" them. It doesn't have to be mom, hey doesn't even need to be a woman! So many kids have extended family and still have a special person they would want to recognize. You can't shield children from everything that will make them feel different from other kids-we should be giving them tools to deal with that, not sterilizing the environment for them.

Answer 9

I think it's ridiculous. People without mothers don't get offended, they might get sad though. But still, what about all of the children with mothers? it's such a SILLY thing to ban!!! It's the people in charge being uncomfortable dealing with the children who don't have mothers, and not wanting to have to be the one to deal with those children because they feel uncomfortable with it and don't know what to do. It's immature and disgusting, and it makes me very angry. ANYWAY, sorry for .. ranting. It's one thing not to make the biggest deal out of mothers day, it's another thing all together to ban it.

Answer 10

So since a few kids don't have mothers living with them we should pretend that nobody has a mom?

These kids will have to deal with it one way or another. Why punish all the kids. Have the child make a card for another female relative or role model they care about.
I'm tired of this type of stuff ruling how we live.

Answer 11

I'm assuming you're talking about an arts & crafts project for young kids?

Banning that is insane. Kids who don't have mothers at home will often have a grandmother or some other influencial woman in their life. They can make a card for their grandmother, aunt or whoever.

It's a way of letting the kids be creative with the card and express their feelings for someone important in their life.