england team

[puddinmama]

Hi

This is my first AIBU, but here goes

We live in Northern Ireland, my son goes to an Irish Catholic school. Anyway they are doing something for charity that is related to the world cup, each class has been allocated a team and the child must dress in the teams colour, my son's is Portugal. Now every team is there except England. I feel a bit irked about this,now don't get me wrong am as Northern Irish as anyone round here, but I don't think it sends the right message to the children. Times are moving on we need to inclusion etc Obviously the younger kids won't notice but the older ones will as many of them are supporters if English premier league teams and these players are playing for England.

Am I reading to much into this and would it be unreasonable of me to a) send in the paper with the teams and wrote in red along the bottom 'where is England?' or ring the principal, and just nicely ask her, pointing out that I'm noy complaining etc but just ask her what message does it send England not being included? I have thought that maybe they just ran out of classes to allocate teams to, well then surely the teachers should do something then relating to England

I dunno, over to Mumsnet.

Thanks

Hi again,

sorry for awful spelling etc have 4 yr old whinging here

yanbu.

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But, could there be going to be a surprise? Like maybe the teachers will come as England or something.

YANBU. I can see why they've done it, but I think they're misguided. I would ring the Head and say something.

(Do you live in a very nationalist area? perhaps they were worried about the children's safety?)

I really don't know but if every class has been allocated a different team, then whatever they do, one team will not be included

so if a class has England, that means Italy is left out or something?

Hi

Thanks for the quick replies

Well I can sort of see that maybe some parents might not like dressing thier kids up in the England colours I for one have no problem, but at the end of the day we need to stop living in fear of idiots, and most parents would have been fine, our are is mostly catholic but quiet enough. I do hope that if I rang the principal would say that they were going to do something about England but I very much doubt it. The same idiotic ideas are being planted in yet another generation, or am I wrong about that?

I think you could ask about it

Maybe they could be carrying banners that have all the flags of the aprticipating countries printed out, coloured in and stuck on. Maybe with South Africa in the middle and the rest all round the outside or something.

Thanks again

yes I do think that the children could do mini flags as an art project and these could be hung around the school, its disappointing that this still goes on, I mean its primary school fgs