Gdcs’ primary school is having a ‘wear blue and yellow today for Ukraine day

Fleur20 - I do understand where you are coming from - there is so much horror thrust at children from the media. Hopefully the school will have presented this in a sensitive way. It is hard to present the political subtleties of surrounding goodies and baddies in real life. A big challenge for schools, who quite rightly want to encourage compassion.

Agree with Jaberwok
Witzend ‘Shamed into hosting’? Surely that should be up to you!

I really think that schools should be 'neutral zones', however good the cause. Children do not have the power of adults, and can't easily opt out of collective behaviour.

I'm not a fan of compulsory support for anything, really. I hated the clapping for the NHS, much as I supported the key workers and was grateful for all they did, and I am uneasy when comments are made about people in the public eye (eg newsreaders) if they don't 'opt into' wearing poppies.

Schools should, IMO, be for education only, and politics, religion etc should be kept out of them. That's probably not a popular opinion, but it's how I feel.

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Agree with Jaberwok
Witzend ‘Shamed into hosting’? Surely that should be up to you!

By ‘shamed into it’ I didn’t mean that dd pressured me in any way at all. She didn’t.

After hearing her evident enthusiasm, I just felt that despite my initial reluctance, it was something we really ought to do. Dh was keener than I was from the start, but then for various reasons having people staying in the house would not affect him so much as it would me.

Well done Witzend I couldn’t do it.