My child’s school have changed the name of Mother’s Day to special persons day, what do you think?

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Have we gone mad or is this appropriate?

I agree 'Mothers and Others' sounds better but 'Special Persons' is coming from the right place.

It sometimes seems the opposite of woke is 'cunt

Exactly

Knowing how hard Mother’s Day is for some who have lost their mum I don’t hate it. What does sadden me as that that is unlikely the reason behind the change. I’d expect the same approach to Father’s Day.

Fathers. Day. Does. Not. Replace. Mothers. Day!

It is as well as. In any case Mothers Day (or Mothering Sunday as it is correctly known) is a very old tradition, Fathers Day is a very recent addition brought about mainly by the greetings card industry.

Are there plans to rename Father's Day too? If not my comment about erasure stands.

I was going I to use the word “twat” but yours works just as well.

But changing it to ‘A special person’ is crap.
I mean there has been threads about it on here fir years. There is nothing new really. And it’s certainly not woke.

But what are they going to do for Father’s Day? Some children don’t have a father anymore. A lot don’t have a father that bothers with them and see them. What is Fathers day going to be? Another ‘Special person’ day?
It’s going to strip any meaning out if any of those celebration. So changing the name yes. But not to that. ‘Special Woman’ would be better for example. Or allowing children to chose who they make the card for.

It’s a good idea. Some children no longer have a mother or they are being brought up by someone else. I’ve always thought the card making for mothers was cruel for some children.

It's a horrendously twee name so I dislike it on that grounds. It's spring so something along the lines of "thank you for helping me grow" which would go with all the plants/seeds my children bring home every year for Mothers day would have sounded better.

Personally I don't think schools should be making cards for Mothers Day/Fathers Day. Although my daughter has just brought an angry leprechaun card home for Saint Patrick's day so I suppose it's any excuse for an art project.

It's funny, I've been teaching for nearly 15 years and mother/father's day cards have always been to 'Someone Special' no drama.

But now it's all about 'erasing women' and something to froth about.

I agree. But some people have been gaslight by a hysterical press to believe that everything is about erasing women, and this must be part of some male agenda. It’s a shame a nice thing a school has done to support potentially vulnerable children is being hijacked into this.

PLEASE READ THE EFFIN THREAD

THEY ALSO CHANGED FATHERS DAY LAST YEAR

this is not erasure of women! Go back to the Feminism Board!

It’s great to hear your perspective. This thread is what happens when people only want to hear half the story and try to scare women.

We can't protect our kids against everything and ofcourse children will question things that don't make sense to them. It is the same for kids of other races and religions. Boys with long braids being told they are a girl by kids, kids who wear a turban or headscarf being told they can't shower with "it" on. Many kids don't celebrate Christmas and when they talk about Santa Claus not existing it's a big backlash for them ect ect ... Kids will always ask about things that don't make sense to them in their bubble. We can't protect our kids against everything and they will build a lot of resilience if they are supported by their parents/carers at home. The best we can do is teach them and ourselves to respect differences.

The last Fathers ' Day was renamed.

This does not evidence an agenda to erase women.

@AcornGreen I agree there is a huge amount of misogyny in the world but this time its not actually that. I said way up in the thread that Father’s Day was also changed to special person day. They have had a number of children loose parents, a few I know of. The head is female and I believe a really empathetic thing to has been done.

They did.

This is misogynistic. I am so sick of this crap.

OP has already said that the last Fathers' Day was also called "special person's day" at school.

Which is what the poster who you thought you'd have a pop at was trying to tell you.

I’d rather they just butt out, I don’t know why they get involved with it anyway? We used to have to pay the PTA if we wanted our children to make a Mother’s Day card…I didn’t bother.

I was just going to say this - The "Mother" was the Mother church in their home parish, but girls in service often took the opportunity to bake a cake as an appreciation for their mothers, too, as it gave them the chance to visit their family that they probably hadn't seen for a year.

What why?

I guess it's just to be inclusive to kids who don't live with their mums but are maybe in foster care. I don't think there's anything wrong that. As a mum I'm not so insecure that I can't share mother's day.

Perhaps schools should just stop celebrating it then. I don't think we did when I was at school. Then those that 'need' a special card can make their own arrangements.

Agree.

Please explain how when OP has said Yes the last Father’s Day was special person day also.

Our school does two "special people's days" a year instead of Mothers day/Father's day. I think it makes sense to be honest, just in DD's class there is a fostered child, one adopted boy with two dads, one being brought up by grandparents and I'm sure there'll be quite a few who don't see their one of their parents. Added up across the school that is likely quite a significant number of children. I could understand the upset if the school just replaced mother's day and not father's day but that's not what has happened here.