Would you object to Jade Goody being a parent at your school?

[MummyPenguin]

I just read this in The Sun, and it really annoyed me! Parents at posh Oaklands school in Loughton, Essex have strongly objected to Jade being offered a place in Reception for her Son Bobby, 4.

I know Jade isn't everyone's favourite person, but how dare they? Apparently, one Mum has objected so strongly that she's threatened to take her child out. Bye then. That would be my reaction, and I asssume Jade would have a similar one. Other parents are planning a petition. WTF? Bobby is only 4, and shouldn't be subjected to such hostility. What sort of example are they setting their children? No doubt the children will be encouraged not to associate with Bobby, and the poor little chap might be outcasted.

I really hate this sort of snobbery. In every school, even so called 'posh' ones, there's children and parents that you don't mix with for reasons best known to yourself. This just struck me as ridiculous though. If Jade can afford the fees, (which she obviously can) good luck to her.

I don't know if there's already a thread about this btw.

No

Agreed that it is not her son's fault and unfair for him to be ostracised (potentially) but was just asking myself which was worse - 'snobbery' or 'racism' ?

What a bunch of w*nkers those parents are.

Pathetic, if I were her I would send him somewhere else, I wouldn't want him to mix with children whose parents were so ridiculous.

No but I might object to those parents being connected with a school my dcs went to!

That's one problem with private schools, some parents seem to believe they should have a say in who is given a place just because they are paying. And some private schools go along with this view.

I went to school with someone who was the son of someone famous... when he got suspended for selling "drugs" to first years (he would have been expelled but it turned out to be herbal tea!) his mother decided to write about it in the papers... and name the school.. we were besieged with journalists. Wish we could have voted not to have HIM at school!

I wouldn't care who else had a child at my sons school as long as they treat the school the same as everyone else does.
Couple of vaguely famous parents at one of my jkids school but no one pays too much attention. School is about the kids after all.
I think I would be pretty grumpy at my childs school being in the press as one more piece of banal shite sold in a celeb/gossip rag

I feel sorry for jades son if he does end up going to this school. Imagine when its his birthday and the snotty mums in question wont let their children go to his party.
The mothers who are trying to stop her from sending her son there should be damn well ashamed of themselves, the stuck up cows

Disgusting. Her money is the same as anybody else's.

Part of me wouldn't want my boys to go to a school that has such horrible parents, but another part of me wants to stick to her guns and stick by her child.

Afterall, we all only want the best for our children. Maybe she sees that by sending her boy to a private school he may get some priveleges / advantages that were denied her.

Shame on the other parents!

I didn't say people who send children to private school are snobs - that was precisely my point! I said you are used to being thought one!

agree with mm22bys and LL.it is disgusting!

Hope Jade gets a place and becomes head of the PTA.

Only read OP but FFS! the woman is not a child murderer, is she? She amde a huge mistake and did some deplorable thintgs. She 6did^ however say sorry and whilst that doesn't change what she did, neither is it possioble for her to do much mroe exempting the possibility she ahs a Tardis stashed away somewhere.

And as for taking it out on a small child

She's just ahd a miscarriage FGS, why can't they cut her some slack?

I really hope this story is just a piece of mischievous journalism, because it sounds horrible.

I would object. Of course I would object. Her views are well known and well documented.

I don't allow my children to mix with families that are racist. My view is that they are too young to be able to understand racism and should not do so until they are of an age to be able to understand it for what it is and shrug it off.

So if you found out that the non-celeb parent of a child at your child's school was a racist you would try to get that child kicked out? Surely not?

Can't bear Jade Goody but her poor little boy hasn't done anything wrong!! Why shouldn't he be allowed at that school bless him

Just becauseshe said something stupid a while ago doesn't mean she has a racist famimly

All seems a bit harsh to me, what has something she once said got to do with the education of her son?

Celeb or non-celeb, my attitude would be the same. I would feel the same if, hypothetically, the children of a BNP party activist were enrolled at my DCs school.

Thankfully, I think the school would feel the same way though ...

Have only read the OP, and I agree with it.

This constant knee-jerk shock/horror seems endemic in our society at the moment. Jade Goodey is a jerk, to be sure, but this is a sinister and unpleasant intolerance on the part of the posh ladies of Loughton.

The world is made up of many parts. It has its share of eejits. A civilized society becomes less civilized when it ostracizes the eejits in favour of something which is deemed more unilaterally acceptable.

It's unintelligent snobbery of the highest order.

Jade Goody is hardly an activist in a racist political party, though, is she?
So it's not really a relevant comparison.

my post was in response to Quattro, not Desi, obv

No.

I have other stuff to worry about.

Yes but surely the ladies of Loughton (sp?) are paying to avoid the eejits, Desiderata? You are approaching this from a macro perspective. The good ladies are looking at the situation from a micro one. They have no wish to mingle with the eejits at all.