to think this is frankly ridiculous? (warning, Royal Bloody Wedding related)

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DD's school, not content with having the day off for the Royal Bloody Wedding, are staging a mock-up of the event the day beforehand.

We have been asked to donate flowers. They want us to attend in our 'best finery - don't forget your hats'. The local church is hosting this charade

What a waste of sodding time and money I mean FFS.

Wanted to add that in the same way that Elizabeth is not my queen, Will will never be my king. When that phrase had some meaning we would often be dealing with despotic dictators, now it has more to do with weird bowing and scraping, and the blind acceptance of a past design which no longer has any relevance. Might be constitutionally difficult and create some kind of temporary vacuum, but think we would be much better off without the royal family. Why should we look up to people for the simple reason that they happen to be part of a particular family? Nelson Mandela deserves adoration, Will and Kate do not. Plus already my daughters seem to think the apex of their life will be when they "get married" - this is just burying that deeper in their psyche. Nothing against marriage, real love and commitment should be celebrated, but their own minds, careers, thoughts and independence are as important if not more so.
Anyway, must stop as feel pompous now.

send them in in red french peasant caps, pulling a tumbril and shouting liberte-egalite-fraternite! vive la revolution!

and if anyone complains say youve taken a bland mawkish waste of a schoolday celebration and turned it into a brilliant oppotunity for cross disciplinary education - politics, history, french

At least if boys and girls are both involved that's a step up from some of the RW related stuff I've seen. Particularly awful - a Royal Wedding colouring book which was all 'imagine you're a princess', 'which celebrities would you invite?' The only part a man plays in his wedding day, according to the book, is in wearing a suit, with one page for colouring this in. I don't like the whole constructing weddings as a girl's 'dream of a lifetime' business. Perhaps if it's an event all the kids participate in at least that will not happen.

I don't have a major objection to this as it is something than can be used as a learning opportunity (though whether it will be I can't say) and is part of a fairly standard school use of current events/seasonal celebrations.

I also wonder how many people posting that they would take their child out of school and do something properly educational and worthy would be able to keep this up for every school day, if they were educating their children themselves, or if they would occasionally, ooh, get them to do something fairly light-hearted based on a topical event. No, I bet it would be quadratic equations and medieval history all day every day, with standards never slipping...

I do think asking for money for flowers is not fair of the school, though. People may be OK with getting involved but that doesn't mean they should be forced to spend money on it. Why can't the kids make paper flowers or something?