DH has drafted an e-mail to the headteacher about something he saw at school pick-up

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Apparently when we went to collect the children from school there was an adult in the playground wearing an English Defence League sweatshirt. I didn't notice, but DH did.

DH is very offended and has drafted an e-mail to the head.

I am not sure about it as a course of action. If it's all right for us to ask that EDL clothing be banned from the playground, what's to stop somebody else from asking that the hijab be banned?

I do not like what the EDL stands for, and I don't really want my children exposed to it either, but do you think we should be raising it with the headteacher?

LOL @ BluddyMoFo

i felt physically sick when i went to a pool once and in there was a man covered in nazi tattoos, all over his back and chest and arms. massive swastikas and combat 18 etc. vile.

I don't blame your DH for being appalled but there is nothing the school can do, and is being unreasonable expecting the school to step in when he was not prepared to do so himself (not that I think he should have - someone prepared to wear an EDL sweatshirt is probably beyond salvation).

If he felt so aggrieved he should have had the balls to speak directly to the person wearing it.

I cannot stand it when people who claim to be offended by something are then too cowardly to raise the issue and want others to do it for them.

Without a shadow of a doubt this has absolutely nothing to do with the school.

I hope the school isn't a polling station...

Erm....while I myself would be fairly revolted to see anyone sporting such an item in the school playground, it would never occur to me to whine to the school about it. Since when do the school have any authority over what a parent wears? How silly!

If he's that bothered he should approach the individual involved himself, if he's too chicken to do that, then he can't expect the school to do it for him.

Just daft.