In thinking it'sprobably best not to send your child to school fro WBD dressed as Hitler?

[Peachy]

efore anyone says LOL I didn't get it wrong- DH pointed it out, I said oh no must be Charlie Chaplin or somesuch then kid took off coat toreveal lovingly embroidered swatiokas.

It did concern me that the Mummight be on here then I thought no! It isn't OK and its worth making a fuss over.

AIBU?

Does anyone elses thought processes runa long the lines of 'Oh a favourite literare character? no darling skip Roald Dahl, Seuss and Grimm.... we'll go for a genocidalmaniac instead! No chance of suplication there!'

FFS

[vjg13]

Maybe the parents thought is was WW2 day and not WBD?!

Really have no idea what the parents were thinking and I really hope the school acted.

[Peachy]

OK update but I willa dd this si from ds1 who's not always reliable but he did seem to have details

Kid not sent home, no mention amde. During pairings (each younger child had an upper school mentor) Hitler was paired with ds1 and said his favourite books were warcraft books.

I ahve a meeting at school anyway next week, am going to raise for sure as am not appreciative of this at all.

[madlentileater]

GASP!
have just discussed this with dp (both teachers) we would not have allowed child to stay dressed like that, I would have put him i n spare clothes and explained that it was not appropriate, could make all sorts of people very upset, and then, I think, spoken to parents.
poor child.
and warcraft books? confirms my suspicions of such things.

[Peachy]

My guessis they didnt want to be seen to do the attention thing but am unsure of judgement on this

[rubyslippers]

would be interested to hear what the school say next week

am surprised they didn't make him change

all very odd

[Eilatan]

"Could they have got World Book Day and World Dictator Day all confused? Surely Mein Kampf not widely read in primary schools?"

Oh that's funny! I think senior managment and ofsted read Mein Kampf...actually ofsted probably think it's a bit wishywashy liberal!

It is weird and in awful taste but Hitler does appear in popular fiction a lot. It seems as time passes we forget the horror and these people become folk (anti) heroes.

Because I'm old and remember the NF I find it all horrific. A year 9 asked me, quite without malice, the other day, why the term Brit was ok but Paki wasn't. THAT took some major deconstruction.

This sounds pompous but maybe the parents are young and not very aware. Or maybe they're neo nazis!?!?!?

I'm amazed, daily, what 'young people of today' (where's me slippers?) do and don't know. They can do any number of clever things with multi media and know so little about the world. I did a holocaust day lesson recently which I prepared on the graphic novel Maus thinking it would be interesting to debate whether this was an appropriate way to tell a holocaust story and I ended up spending most of the lesson explaining the holocaust (as if you could!). Some of the kids had been on the annual school trip to Poland Auschwitz (sp?) and they still couldn't connect Hitler with it! Then some idiots (not from my group) went off and taunted the poor German MFL teacher... STILL missing the point!

[Peachy]

If he was reasding warcraft books though maye they did know and just thought it was OK?

That's the scary bit isn't it; ignorance I can deal with, deliberate act would be terribly scary

[thirtysomething]

that's just sick. remarkably so in fact. Bet they wouldn't have gone as a member of the Klu Klux Klan??? How can anyone let their child go out dressed like that? What was the school's reaction?

[seeker]

[Peachy]

Aw Seeker Im sorry - nobody is biting here, Ie xpected a fewmore freedom of speech posts tbh.

The trolldmust be diffing elsewhere tonight. Bunkers, perhaps

[Buda]

Just thinking about this. My 7 year old would have no idea who Hitler was. So I am assuming that nor would most of his peers or anyone at school younger than him. Not sure what year they tackle WW2 although as Eilatan points out even if they have tackled WW2 there is no guarantee that they really know the evil of Hitler. And in that case you can carry the supposition on to assume that his parents don't know either. If the child likes reading warcraft books and the parents don't know about Hitler, he could be just another character to them.

(Coming from a point of view where I am regularly amazed at how people seem to come through the education system not knowing fairly major things - met 2 girls once on my first ever holiday abroad, me from Ireland, them from England - they didn't realise that Ireland and England were on separate islands - nothing surprises me now!)

[seeker]

I don't think anyone could reach 7 in an English State school without knowing about Hitler - the History curriculum seems to be obsessed with the Second World War!

I think he was dressing up and Prince Harry.

[Pristina]

This is very shocking. I thought "troll" at first, but can see that you are not. Definitely complain.

[standanddeliver]

Good grief

Oh this has made me laugh.

The scene at my dd's primary school was a bit surreal on Thursday. There were about 80 Harry Potters milling about, leavened by a smattering of girls in Disney costumes.

DD(9) went as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.

She looked gorgeous.

[Buda]

seeker - DS is in a international school which follows British curriculum - he is in Yr 3 - they haven't done WW2 yet. They have been covering Romans for 'topic' this year. I think Yr 4 may do WW2 here.

[Peachy]

Apparently this kid was in year 6 if that adds to it? Nt sure.

FWIW Its the arents I have the at not the child

[Peachy]

And PMSL at tro9ll- even if I tried it my shite keyboard would be instantly recognisable!

[madlentileater]

In Y6 they often do 'the home front'- rationing, gas masks, evacuees...without covering Nazism....but school should have intervened here IMO.

[Heated]

Maybe they were his weekend clothes?

[Kimi]

Poor child

[SalopianGirl]

Damn, should have sent DD as Oswald Moseley instead of Veruca Salt,after all he was born just down the road.

[Kimi]

DP dresses as a nazi now and then and runs about in muddy fields with a big gun don't ya know.

Now before you come round with your pitch forks he is part of a WW2 re-enacting group, these groups go to schools and so on.

Think it is poor taste for WBD though

[AlistairSim]

I don't feel so bad for sending DD in as a poo now.

[katiestar]

OK dons flameproof jacket.
the child is into warcraft in a big way ,why shouldn't he be allowed to dress as a character from a book he is interested in .i don't think there is any implication he is glorifying Hitler or the nazis in any way.
To be fair WW2 finished over 50 years before any primary school children were even born so i don't think there is much chance of them being traumatised.
I would never have sent me child as a Nazi but I did once send DS1 into playgroup in a camouflage combat -type outfit (but with no weapons) on dressing up day and and some parents complained that they didn't want their children to see 'military ' stuff at pre school.

[seeker]

To be serious for a moment - I'm afraid that I would be one of the people unhappy about "military" stuff in school.