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What do people think of this going on at my daughter's primary school?

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DoctorBeat · 14/04/2016 10:45

Nationalism with some gender stereotyping thrown in for good measure? Girls bring in something sweet?! 😒

What do people think of this going on at my daughter's primary school?
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DoctorBeat · 14/04/2016 10:54

Um maybe because boys aren't expected to be "savoury" but girls are expected to be sweet? Anyway more daughter doesn't like sweet food and neither is she sweet so she'll be taking something she likes.

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gandalf456 · 14/04/2016 10:54

The whole thing is just urgh.

MrNoseybonk · 14/04/2016 10:51

It does say Boys bring something savoury too, why didn't you mention that?
Would it have been better to swap them round?

AnyFucker · 14/04/2016 10:50

Hmm. Not too sure about that. It's a handy way to ensure that mostly equal quantities of sweet/savoury food is brought. You usually end up with tons of the same stuff if you don't issue any guidelines at all.

I don't have a problem with celebrating being British either.

lisaneedsarest · 14/04/2016 10:49

I think possibly you are reading too much into the food thing, most likely the school will have wanted to minimise the amount of sweet food brought in (as its often easier to bring in a packet of biscuits/cakes etc) so they split it to girls and boys so that half the school will bring some thing savoury - that way most kids will get to eat a decent lunch. I don't imagine anyone say there thinking girls should bring in the 'sweet' stuff because girls are sweeter!

Leslieknope45 · 14/04/2016 10:49

Is it because they have tried to get half savoury and half sweet? Rather than automatically pick girls for sweet. If I were the person who organised it though, I might have said year 3 bring something savoury, year 4 bring something sweet.

WellErrr · 14/04/2016 10:48

I think nothing of it. It's a good way of getting a 50/50 split.

And there's nothing wrong with celebrating British heritage in Britain. It doesn't make you a crazed DM Britain First nut.

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