My son’s (age 5, 6 in August) state school has no uniform. He has recently chosen and bought with his pocket money a lovely t-shirt which he’s pleased with. He’s in Year 1 for context. He has decided to wear his new t-shirt tomorrow. The dilemma is that it has a pink sparkly unicorn design on the front. It was clearly a “girl’s” t-shirt (as in, the store was mixed but it was in a girls section), and of course me and his Dad think it’s lovely he loves it so much. I wish I wasn’t worried but there are two known bullies in his class who are very “alpha” and have bullied a number of the children before including our son. they are very “male” and talk about weaklings etc and have bullied another boy relentlessly who is fairly feminine in his rates.
The school is currently dealing with the bullies so it’s not so much about that aspect as I have already submitted a complaint and met with the teacher. Things are happening but as of tomorrow the two boys are still
in DS class. My dilemma is more about the very immediate term issue of DS wanting to wear his cute t-shirt tomorrow the first day back after half term. Do I send him into the lions den or do I say it’s in the wash?
I am a moral person and feel cross I’m even thinking about such a moral compromise as this, but when it’s your child you just want to protect them from pain 😭