No fun! Would you complain?

[schoolios]

So 2016 we have a new headteacher.

First she bans sending Christmas cards. The kids were very disappointed. The letter sent out suggested we donated the money we would have spent on cards to the schools Catholic charity.

I think sending Cards is important. It cements friendship. Shows thoughtfulness and is good for writing practice.

Next she's banned dressing up for book day!

My immediate reaction was awesome! but the kids were really disappointed again. They've always put such pride in their outfits before.

They're only in primary. Surely you can't just cut out the fun stuff!

Sounds great to me. I can't keep up at my dd's school - constant non-uniform/bring a pound/jar of sweets/cakes/fizzy bottles of drink/dress in red. Also WBD should be about ...books?

clam - my DD went to a bilingual international primary school so there was plenty of opportunity to observe different cultural concepts of work versus fun in primary school. The American parents were terrible! They kept trying to interrupt the DCs and teachers with dress-up days and parent interventions in class, didn't want their DC to do homework and enrolled them in far too many extracurriculars, then were the first to complain when their own DC weren't top of the class and thought school should provide free out of hours support to improve their DCs' grades.

The English teachers tended to be a bit lax and unambitious, though without a serious fun quotient. French teachers got it right, IMO - there was fun, but it was limited and ring-fenced.

where do I sign