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To ask the school... WTF

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bookeatingboy · 01/12/2016 22:55

DS came home yesterday with a payment card for his first residential trip next year. The cards were blue and apparently all the girls got pink cards!

Some of the girls asked for blue cards and were told that blue is for the boys and pink for the girls Confused

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Somerville · 01/12/2016 22:57

Why? Confused What's even the point of colour coding payment cards?

bookeatingboy · 01/12/2016 23:05

Exactly... why not plain white card.

Why is blue for boys and pink for girls!

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Rainydayspending · 01/12/2016 23:06

That's bizarre! There's no gender attached to cash?! (And I'm guessing they charge the same per child!)

WhisperingLoudly · 01/12/2016 23:06

That would irritate me enormously Angry

TheCatsMother99 · 01/12/2016 23:08

This would piss me off too, I'd want to know why there are two coloured cards let alone why girls have to have pink and boys blue ones

ILoveAntButHateDec · 01/12/2016 23:21

TBH I don't think I would have questioned the colour of the cards and I'm absolutely sure dd wouldn't have mentioned it.

Ask the school their reasons for distinguishing between boys and girls coloured payment cards by all means. Come back and let us know what they say

WouldHave · 01/12/2016 23:46

I'd be tempted to "lose" my card and replace it with a plain white one.

MidniteScribbler · 01/12/2016 23:49

Could it be for room allocations? So that when the cards come back, they can put them into piles to sort out how the rooms will be organised?

attheendoftheday · 01/12/2016 23:50

Definitely raise it, it sounds ridiculous!

amammabear · 01/12/2016 23:53

That is mad!!!

Biffsboys · 01/12/2016 23:54

Oh Jeezo - really ? Is there nothing bigger to worry about ? It's a card , pay the money and it's done .

Marcipex · 01/12/2016 23:55

Dorm allocation.

bookeatingboy · 02/12/2016 08:36

Biffsboys What a ridiculous thing to say! Of course there are much bigger things to worry about. You don't get to decide who's posts are worthy or not.

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Hellmouth · 02/12/2016 08:39

I wonder who's bright idea that was :| if they wanted a way to distinguish between boys and girls, i'm sure there is a less gendered way to do it.

RoseGoldHippie · 02/12/2016 08:39

Is it's for dorm allocation I don't see the big deal. Would it have made a difference if the cards were green and orange?

LindyHemming · 02/12/2016 08:43

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MoreThanUs · 02/12/2016 08:46

It's annoying, I don't like this unthinking bias, but I think I'd get over it really quickly.

BratFarrarsPony · 02/12/2016 08:46

honestly it doesn't matter that much does it?
Blue IS for boys and pink IS for girls, isn't it?
And as others have said, it is probably for room allocation later.

Tanith · 02/12/2016 08:47

I agree with Midnite and Marcipex: it's most likely to help organise sleeping arrangements.

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yellowpostitnote · 02/12/2016 08:56

If they chose green and purple, staff would constantly need to remind themselves which was boys and which was girls. Whereas this way it's easy at a glance.

Seriously, if staff struggled to remember such a thing I'd be very concerned about their ability to teach my child.

I'm a teacher and I'd be livid with the member of staff who did this.

In a decade, such things will be really frowned upon, it's already happening with very good reason.

I've seen first hand the damage the pink blue gender assigning does and it's really dangerous.

(And yes, a few years ago I would have said ffs what's the issue. But I'm not ignorant to it now.)

Tanith · 02/12/2016 08:58

"I've seen first hand the damage the pink blue gender assigning does and it's really dangerous. "

I think you'll need to elaborate a bit on that.

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happychristmasbum · 02/12/2016 08:59

As a teacher I would hope the people organising this trip had alternative means of knowing who was on the trip, and all the relevant info about the students involved, rather than relying on the colour of payment cards!!

I agree with you OP I think this is incredibly disappointing.

BratFarrarsPony · 02/12/2016 09:00

yellowpostitnote - what 'damage' would that be then?

Trifleorbust · 02/12/2016 09:00

That is a seriously schoolboy error Grin

It isn't the sort of thing I think worth getting terribly worked up about on the surface of things, but actually the underlying message there is quite negative so yes, I would ask for this not to happen again.

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