It's all mum's fault

[grasspigeons]

I work in a school office and received some marketing for a deep clean service - which actually would be useful but their marketing made me cringe so much. I know schools get a bit of stick for being stuck in the 1950s but I'm a working mum myself so was a bit by the way this was written
Do you think I should re write it for them?

Definitely rewrite it for them - that's outrageous!

God that's depressing. But not particularly surprising. I was at a new parents' evening for DS1's new school tonight (he starts reception in September) and the class teacher (who to be fair to her generally seems lovely) was talking about how she understands it's a wrench leaving them when we've had them at home so long and how we mustn't sit at home all day worrying if they're a bit teary at drop off. Her default assumption was very much Mums at home.

Bloody hell that's depressing. At what point are ever going to get past these stupid stereotypes? Never in my lifetime it seems at this rate.

I'd contact them and say that you're put off booking them by their marketing and highlight why. How hard is it to put "parents" instead of "mums", or indeed "parent/carers"?

Why do these sorts of people always capitalise when they shouldn't as well!

Stuff like this is so depressing.

Wow so depressing. Definitely
Contact them and point out how offensive and misinformed their marketing is. These things have to be challenged.

It's lamentable this kind of outdated thinking persists. Not only is it limiting but it's also inaccurate: at a primary school just down the road from me I regularly see plenty of fathers picking their children up when I walk past.

FurryGiraffe that's irksome not least because she's in a position of authority and influence over her pupils and this kind of attitude could be conveyed to them if such a topic ever comes up.

I've noticed time and time again that my son's school's default assumption seems to be that there is a stay at home mother around to pick up the pieces - not just for sickness, trips, etc, but for their own lack of organisation.

They do things like change inset days with next to no notice (I'm not the only working parent to have been caught out that way).