11 yr old boy in Shades of Grey outfit

Mwah. (Big wet slobbery one. Just the way the grandsons hate 'em).

Even if you're the nation's highest female 'high flyer' surely you can 'come up' with something for God's sake? Sorry, I don't accept that as an excuse.
Unless you're prepared to go the extra mile for your children and support them in school activities don't have any(children I mean). Go for the career option. (Waits to hear the ruffling of collective feathers )

Oh I don't know, you have come back to talk to me mwah.

Well, you must admit the comment "FGS" on its own is hardly conducive to pleasant chit-chat.

GD's reception class were told to go in pyjamas, for some reason they must have thought they were too young to have a favourite character.
Thanks for the insult jingl, like I care what you think

Umm.... Having to come up with a costume perhaps? Especially for working mums.

Suit colour doesn't really matter....Arthur Weasley, Mr Brown, adults from Roald Dahl or take jacket off and be Harry Potter sans robe.

Looking on Mumsnet and talking to my DDs, the idea of the children having to dress up in a costume from a favourite book could feel a bit burdensome given that many parents work and have limited time when they get home. I know one of my DDs found it so. And in some schools there is a sort of unspoken competitive edge to these things and the parents feel duty bound to give up time to it to stop their child being ridiculed.

Haven't answered my question JBF Why is World Book day a curse for mums? Genuine query... as I'm out of 'the loop' I would really like to know why 'a book day' is a curse

I was horrified when I learned she was a teacher. I won't be the only retired teacher on here who has heard some unsavoury comments, sniggers or suggestive remarks from very young students that you just know have come from home. Teachers often have to draw on all their classroom management skills to deal with such situations with the minimum of fuss.

The cable ties and mask would have sent a shiver down my spine because they will be the talking point among the other kids - not what he was wearing.

The silly woman should have know better.

Well, good for him Katek. Mind you, the school could only come up with James Bond. (in a grey suit?! )

Just read GrannyTwice's previous post:
^Now I know his mother is a teacher, I think even less of her^

even more that his mother is a teacher.

I wouldn't want her teaching my DGC.
All that wealth of children's literature and that is all she can come up with.

I am not clear that it was the boy's idea - and even if it was, his mother should have tactfully steered him towards something more appropriate.

Stop and ask yourself - how did the boy come to know about the book?

Ridiculous to start running down the mother and speculating whether they had books in the house or not.

Jingle...he needn't have been left out, there's any number of characters he could have transferred to. And besides, learning that actions have consequences is a good life lesson.

I thought that children dressing up as characters from books for World Book day was about children's books not sleazy adult fiction.

Perhaps that stupid mother has never heard of any other book.
Some homes don't have books.

It was the boy's idea. And by God! Hasn't it highlighted a lot of what's wrong with society today. One way or another.

Unless this boy is completely half-soaked, he will no doubt wish to know what the book is about, since he is going to school dressed up as a character from it. And how do you answer? - fob him off with a bit of nonsense? Why put him and yourself as parent in that position in the first place? What is the point?

How does this advance his education? How does it help with world book day?

The school really had very little choice but to exclude hm from the day, as the children would no doubt have been asked to talk about the book they represented. There is no way the school could have involved him in doing that or there would have been parents up in arms - and rightly so. I do not feel sad that he was "left out of the day" - I have no doubt that he would have been OK about the chance to bunk off for the day.

What a very silly attention-seeking mother. It would be nice to think that she had learned her lesson, but she seems to be lapping up the publicity. I would not want her for a Mum, nor would I wish my child to be in her class.

Flick - that's completely unfar on the school. They were presented with an untenable situation and tried to come up with a solution - hence the admittedly not very clever JB idea. He mother is the villain here - she allowed it to happen and she gave it all the publicity. It may come as a surprise to some but parents are meant to be supportive of schools and not make their job harder than it is already - and even more so when they are teachers themselves

That was to absentgrandma

I haven't mentioned children's literature on this thread. There is excellent literature out there for children. The bookcase in what was my son's bedroom when he was a child is still choc-a-bloc full of his books. All of them the very best in writing for children.

I think the shock horror should be directed towards the media who put out so much trash that children latch onto.

Feel free to hold your breath.

Agreed.

Neither mother nor school come out of this with any credit.

The school has done something and it's still reached the headlines!
Jingl.....nice if you can get away with that explanation, but my gd for one wouldn't accept a brush-off and she can't be unique.

So.... World Book Day is a curse for Mums jinglebellswhat-ever Thats a pretty damning verdict on most mums.

Perhaps, as you seem so vastly experienced on a) children's literature and b} parent's attitude to both the day, and literature, you would like to expand on that. I won't hold my breath.