To think my primary school child doesn't need a 'valentine's party' at school?

[AppleSkies]

DS is in yr 5.

There's a couple of yr 5/6 discos that is fine by me and Christmas parties, etc.

However, there's a valentines disco/party coming up and tells child to bring a gift 'for someone special' who you will be able to give anonymously to...

Am I being precious? Do most primaries do something similar??

A disco is fine but asking for gifts is odd and unnecessary

We're doing Valentine's Day at Brownies but tying it in with Thinking Day (worldwide Guiding annual event in february) and thinking of others and being kind

I don't like it. Dd's year 4 teacher got them making Valentine cards and of course the prettiest girls were given several by the boys others were given none. A bit tacky imo.

I think it's shit. Our school is having it for KS1 ( not KS2, which our DC are in, thank god).
It's not for little children. Don't give kids another reason to feel inadequate or unpopular.
Serves me right for not getting involved with the pta.

Don't give kids another reason to feel inadequate or unpopular.

That's what i don't like about it too

YANBU, whatever next!

Our school is having a disco. I think it's unnecessary, but hey... But the anonymous gifts is shocking, tbh. What about the poor little feckers who never get invited to parties; how humiliating to publicly not get a gift from "an admirer" while Popular Penelope gets six?

Our PTA don't theme discos. It's unnecessary. The kids don't care.

I would be very uncomfortable with the gift giving thing.

In USA Valentine's Day is a lot more casual. When I was teaching 10 yr olds in a primary sch I got a valentines card from every child in the class plus dozens from other children who had sent one to every teacher. The sch actually had a rule that is you sent a card to another child, you were obliged to send one to every other child in that class too. Shops sold mini VD cards in multi packs of 30 for that reason. It was the only time in my life when I would receive getting on for 100 cards on 14 Feb!

Collected GS from his school's Valentine's Disco last night. As I walked in I passed 3 little girls sobbing as they tried to explain what was wrong to their parents. Some kids get left of this sort of thing and it can be really hurtful.

Disco is great. Gift giving is unnecessary. The "anonymous" part is just plain weird.

I am very curious as to why they want the gift giving to be "anonymous". Does anyone have any theories? Feels creepy to me actually, like they are encouraging kids to "stalk" those they like...

OP, if you ever find out why, please come back and tell us.

Have a disco fundraiser- kids love it. Don't brand it with something fraught with stuff like this.