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.

Custy I have the greatest respect for all your posts. You are not taking my childrens ages into account. When they are older, they will mix with who they want to mix with. Their social circle is relatively restricted but they will pick people up whereever. I did. Just chatting on trains taught me a lot. But I do not want them mixing with Jade Goody now. Thank you very much.

And no, custy. I don't let my children into the houses of people I don't know. Do you?

oh i am.

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your kids would be friends with HER kid not her

so what if jade goody's kids joined yoru school quattrocento?

MotherFunk -

Close-minded? No. But in this life, we have to make choices. We have to make choices all the time. We choose our friends. We choose our relatives - or our inlaws anyway. We choose our jobs. We choose the people we mix with.

You can choose to give the Jade Goodys of this world space in your life or not. I choose not.

You insist she is not a racist. But all the comments she has made have all the hallmarks of dyed in the wool racism. You absolutely cannot blame me for not wanting someone like that to touch my life or that of my DCs.

but you couldnt stop your kids playing with hers in the playground

Sorry to butt in here...

But your children wouldn't be mixing with Jade Goody! They'd be mixing with Jade Goody's children. Surely you can't vet all parents views and all the views of the pupils too? (I mean, people's views change, how often would you want an update?)

I could, you know, Custy. The way I could choose to avoid her children playing with mine in the playground is ...

not to have my children in the same school as hers

but you are right of course about the fact that her children might be absolutely fine. I might be being grotesquely unfair. I have admitted this openly. But I wouldn't want her anywhere near my infants.

Did Bernard Manning have any children? If so, what do they believe? Is there any data on racist attitudes and what happens across generations?

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i think to punish the children for what you percieve to be the crimes of the mother is euqlly bigoted

Bollox Custy. I wouldn't allow my children over to Bernard Manning's house either ...

Avoiding dodgy people is IMO pretty well one of the best lessons in life I could teach them. I WANT my children to avoid liars. I WANT my children to avoid cheats. I WANT my children to avoid bullshit artists. And yes, I WANT my children to avoid racists too.

I shield them from dodgy people now and explain to them that that is what I am doing because I will not be shielding them when they are older.

Don't you? Really? Did you really let them have all their freedoms? From a ridiculously early age?

your not reading my posts

i have said earlier about not going to someones house unless you knew them

ofcourse most reasonable parents wouldn't let their kids to an unknown house would they?

but i wouldnt stop the children coming to my house. bernard mannings children even

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yes but would you invite her over for a coffee morning?( jade, I mean)

Of course, there are places where people have no control over who their children mix with. Where the children of dustmen rub shoulders with the children of doctors, and if the offspring of BNP voters happen to turn up you have to put up with them because they have as much right to be there as you do.

These things may not be familiar to a lot of people.

They are called..

STATE

SCHOOLS

Gasp.

UQD that's crazy talk I tell you

i love jade goody. every time i see her i think of watching her flirt with kermit the frog on the muppets every saturday night as a kid.

I know - shocking, isn't it?

imagine not being able to vet everyone your children come into contact with...!

wait-I think my parents had to deal with that very problem and I think I turned out OK

still I guess if you're paying to educate your children maybe you imagine you have the right to screen out 'undesirables'...

I think these parents should get over themselves.

of course you could be classed as undesirable to some of the parents too

Something struck me after I'd gone to bed actually..... you know Quattro is convinced that her multicultural school doesn't have racist parents.... well, given that not all racists are white, and that if you were a non-white racist you would actually probably still send your child to a multicultural school in preference to a totally white one, I think there is actually a very good chance she is wrong about that.
It may not have the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant type of working class racists, but I would be very very very surprised if there was no-one there who thought that their ethnic group was superior to the others.

Have not read all of these but no, I would not object

nor would I object to her child being a friend of my child

nor would I ignore her

she may be nice in RL

who knows