Scottish Government Schools Ban Father’s Day Cards

What would Sir William Wallace do?

Thousands of primary pupils were prevented from making Father’s Day cards at school for fear of embarrassing classmates who live with single mothers and lesbians.

The politically correct policy was quietly adopted at schools “in the interests of sensitivity” over the growing number of lone-parent and same-sex households.

It only emerged after a large number of fathers failed to receive their traditional cards and handmade gifts.

Family rights campaigners last night condemned the policy as “absurd” and argued that it is marginalising fathers, but local authorities said teachers need to react to “the changing pattern of family life”.

There are alternatives to banning Father’s Day. Perhaps the teachers could have reached out to fathers and asked them to be male mentors to those children without fathers. They could have had them make father’s day cards to their fathers anyway, regardless of if they were dead or absent. They could have had them write another card for their mother to show they appreciate them more than once a year.

There are alternatives to this, they just weren’t explored.

A spokesman for East Renfrewshire Council said: “Increasingly, it is the case that there are children who haven’t got fathers or haven’t got fathers living with them and teachers are having to be sensitive about this.

“Teachers have always had to deal with some pupils not having fathers or mothers, but with marital breakdown it is accelerating.”

Ok, so the last thing you want to do is to have the boys with fathers show them how important they are to the family. The last thing you want to do is tell fathers who are there that their children love them. Let’s not reinforce the idea of family and fathers being important. That would be insensitive.

Sir William Wallace wouldn’t stand for this. Imagine that Parent-Teacher conference for a second.