Scottish Schools: Don't Mention Dad

Scottish schools have jumped into action in an attempt to protect the feelings of children that come from fatherless families. How? By eliminating Father's Day cards for all children.

Oddly, Mother's Day cards are still made by the children and taken home.

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".

An Office for National Statistics report in April found that one in four British children now lives with a lone parent - double the figure 20 years ago.

The Father's Day card ban has been introduced by schools in Glasgow, Edinburgh, East Renfrewshire, Dumfries and Galloway and Clackmannshire.

We can only hope that the children from these schools that enjoy two-parent homes will be able to follow the school's example by sufficiently marginalizing their fathers while in close proximity to children not as fortunate.

Don't mention Dad, they might feel bad. Better yet, pretend you don't even have one. FOR THE CHILDREN!

Of course, this whole exercise completely forgets that many single parent households also have a second caring parent that might prefer not being marginalized and delegated to the rank of second-class by the super sensitive. But rather than let all children celebrate their Dads in whatever circumstances these children find themselves in, the school's sensitive answer is to diminish them all.

Be careful folks. Little boys are learning that their roles as father simply aren't as important as being those demanded of a mother. Do you expect this to help or hinder in the rearing of the next generation?

h/t Brussels Journal