on the home - school agreement we've just receieved for dd1's new school.
At the bottom you have to sign to say you will be good support the school. There are two spaces one (the top one) for father's signature, the lower one for mother's signature.
Now I'm not too happy with the ordering of the signatures (why does father come first? Alpahabetical or something more sinister and patriarchal? ) but what's really bugging me is the assumption that every child has one father and one mother.
What about gay and lesbian parents? What about the family where the step-parent is the present one and the biological parent lives on the other side of the world? What about the family with a biological parent who lives in Scotland so it will be the step-parent doing all the day to day stuff? What about the child whose parents are dead and who lives with grandparents or friends?
Am I being unreasonable to think they should just put parents/guardians?
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To think to to put parents instead of Father and Mother would be better
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Northernlurker · 05/06/2009 16:19
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