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"A school headteacher is under fire for banning pupils from making Mother's Day cards to avoid upsetting children without a mother.
Helen Starkey, 46, fears the time-honoured tradition of making a Mother's Day card at school could be seen as insensitive. As a result, the headteacher of Johnstown Primary School, in Carmarthen, west Wales, simply banned pupils from making cards."
Now where are the school governors and the local education authority when individuals can make this decision?
If you read the full report you will see that this head teacher has made this decision because 5% of the school kids that attend this school do not have a Mother for various reasons.
What about the 95% that do?
Surely the board of governors should be stepping in here and stopping this blatant abuse of authority.
School Mother's Day ban attacked - Yahoo! News UK
Helen Starkey, 46, fears the time-honoured tradition of making a Mother's Day card at school could be seen as insensitive. As a result, the headteacher of Johnstown Primary School, in Carmarthen, west Wales, simply banned pupils from making cards."
Now where are the school governors and the local education authority when individuals can make this decision?
If you read the full report you will see that this head teacher has made this decision because 5% of the school kids that attend this school do not have a Mother for various reasons.
What about the 95% that do?
Surely the board of governors should be stepping in here and stopping this blatant abuse of authority.
School Mother's Day ban attacked - Yahoo! News UK
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