.....to think that a selective school should not allow..

[curlew]

A " chav themed" fancy dress party?

Well, no school should, obviously. But a selective school with an overwhelmingly middle class demographic particularly so, surely????

Kleinzeit

How stupid can staff at the selective school be? Apart from the generally poor taste theme (have they considered tarts'n'tramps for next year?), if staff let the kids name another other local school as chavs then that is going to encourage fighting out of school. I'll bet that's going to make your local community policeman very happy (not).

Well, that's what we all live for - to make the police happy.

Flatpackhamster

Well, that's what we all live for - to make the police happy.

It may not bother you, but at my DS’s school there has been tension between local schools and part of our community policeman’s job is to minimise trouble. So when he’s happy that means parents don’t have to worry that our kids might go out fighting after school, so we’re happy too. (And these are very middle-class schools, and about evens academically and socially.)

Most schools don’t want a reputation for stirring up trouble in the local area.