This is my favorite holiday party.
So imagine how shocked I was when another triplet mom told me she got an email from her teacher saying the children would be having a brief "Friendship Letter Exchange Day" next week.
The memo instructed parents to make a "Friendship Letter Exchange Box" at home so the kids could exchange their "Friendship Letters".
Oh, my holy hell. We can't call it Valentine's Day anymore? I'm seeing red and it's not hearts and roses causing it.
If you aren't allowed to call Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day, please chime in, so we can discuss this, pick it apart, and beat it to death with Cupid's arrow.
Our school in Arizona also calls it Friendship Day. Because apparently Valentine's Day has religious undertones or something like that. Even though no one calls it St Valentine's Day anymore, I guess theoretically it does come from the Catholic feast day of St Valentine. Whatever. My kids in 2nd and Kinder get to have a small celebration, while the 3rd grader's class is calling the card exchange a "handwriting exercise" in order to not call it party. A "handwriting exercise" where they will be having snacks. You have to laugh sometimes at the ridiculousness of the rules.
ReplyDeleteO_o
ReplyDeleteMy brain just exploded.
ReplyDeleteWe're going to be raising the dumbest kids in the world. Can you imagine?
"Hey, what was that day called where there hearts and cupids?"
"Friendship Letter Day? I'm not sure."
I can see it now. "HAPPY FRIENDSHIP LETTER DAY!"
ReplyDelete"What are you doing with your boyfriend on Friendship Letter Exchange Day?"
and then they'll go to the store to buy a card and get confused when all they find are "Valentine's Day" cards.
ReplyDeleteGood grief.
It's just stupid. I really hate that elementary school just isn't fun anymore. You know what I remember of elementary school some 38 years later - the parties!
ReplyDeleteAt least you get to have a 'Friendship Letter Exchange Day', the kids at our local elementary school don't even have that. The teacher's use NCLB as an excuse and say they just don't have time. Seriously, you can't take 45 minutes out of a day twice a year for a party?
So glad my youngest is in middle school now.
That is RIDICULOUS. My twins are in kindergarten and are having a Valentines day party. I didn't think that was something special until just now. Let the feast of St. Valentines of Red Dye begin!
ReplyDeleteOr when they ask someone to be their Valentine, they'll say, "Will you be my Friendship Letter Exchange Recipient"?
ReplyDeleteMy kids won't be celebrating at school since technically the Jews do not recognize Valentine's day as a holiday. However, my "chosen" people are in retail, and this is a gift giving holiday- do the math. We celebrate it, we just do not TAWLK ABBOUTIT.
ReplyDeleteI condone any holiday where there is cake, copious amounts of adult beverages or gifts. Bring on Valentine's day.
Helene- you are just freaking hysterical. Will you be my friendship letter exchange recipient?
ReplyDeleteThis craziness was going on when I was volunteering in a public school years ago. Please explain to me why it's OK to celebrate Muslim holidays but not ordinary holidays with but a tenuous link to Christianity. The death of common sense is the only explanation I can think of.
ReplyDeleteHonest to God, I grew up in Phoenix, in a Christian household, and I had no clue until like 5 years ago that Valentine's Day had ANYTHING to do with anything except hearts, candy, and roses. I'd dare say 90 percent of the people in America have no clue. Valentine's Day is right up there with Mother's Day and Father's Day for retail/commercial holiday. Are we allowed to call it Mother's Day? Or is it Parent Who Has A Vagina Day now?
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh... you guys are hysterical! Parent Who Has A Vagina Day? Awesome.
ReplyDeleteOMG you are hilarious! We are definitely going to celebrate Parent Who Has a Vagina day this year. Wait til the retailers get the cards going on that one!
ReplyDeleteMy kids get to celebrate it, but the schools don't make a huge deal. I was told today that a lot of the kids don't have anyone to help them make Valentine's at home. The teachers have actually offered to send home paper so the kids can cut out and make their own. Virginia standards of learning include learning about American culture and holidays, so teachers can use that to justify these types of holidays.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Michele-Did you know that Blogger now allows you to "nest" comments so that you can reply directly underneath the person you are talking to? If you want to know how to do it, let me know.
The Leibers- no I didn't know you could do that! How do I change mine?
ReplyDeleteI'm a teacher and we call it Valentine's Day!!!! Our school, however, does not allow us to provide or allow to be provided food! It is driving me nuts! When I teach fractions, we always bake or make pizza. I asked my principal about it and she told me to make paper pizza. I asked her how I show my kids to mix 1/4 tsp of salt and 3 1/2 cups of flour with paper. It's RIDICULOUS!!!!
ReplyDeleteMy son attends a jewish daycare/ preschool (though we will not be there next year for various reason we could rant about all day), and they do not allow the celebration of V-day as it is a pagen holiday. No cute cards for the kids, no appreaciation gifts for the teachers....nothing.
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Michele--From your Blogger dashboard go to "settings" on the left side. Then select "posts and comments." In the middle section change your comments from "full page" to "embedded." It won't mess up your comments at all, but from now on you can reply directly below other people.
ReplyDeleteNo way, this is so cool! I figured it out!
DeleteI'm so happy my son goes to a Montessori school in Ontario where they celebrate each holiday they way I did when I was in school!
ReplyDeleteHalloween! Christmas! Valentines Day! Easter! : )
We are having a HUGE Valentine's Day party at the twins school. It is a private school and they can do what they damn well please. We're making Valentine's Day boxes, exchanging Valentines, bringing all sorts of red dye infested food and wearing red. Now, with that being said, their school doesn't have a Halloween party. It's called HarvestFest. We call it Halloween though......BECAUSE IT IS! I'm so sick of all this crap. Can't have a Christmas tree in schools? BULLSHIT. It's the season of CHRISTMAS!! Can't have an Easter party?? It's EASTER!!!! (At the kids private school, we can't have anything with a bunny on it) Are we gonna have a war on Thanksgiving? What can we rename Thanksgiving so as not to offend? Surely y'all have some funny ones out there. Boy people sure don't have a problem with St. Patrick's Day. Or say Father's Day.
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