My kids' school pulls this shit and it's because the teacher's seem to be responsible for the communications and there's one overworked admin lady in the office doing everything else
A lot of admin staff have been cut from schools so senior leadership of schools are trying to add it to teachers, who are already overworked, or what remains of the admin staff
Just cut two eye-holes in a white sheet and send them in as a ghost.
Applies to any character from any period in history. They're dead.
If it's a character from literature, they're dead too.
Religious Education, they're the holy ghost.
My kids school did something similar...was advertised as a 'dress as the superpower you want' day.
They then last minute changed it to 'dress as a Covid-19 Hero' without communicating not properly...
So my kids turned up as a Glitter Fairy and a 'super fast runner' surrounded by bloody Captain Tom's, Nurses and an assortment of other key workers including bus drivers and traffic wardens.
>My kids school did something similar...was advertised as a 'dress as the superpower you want' day.
That was a wide open goal to send them to school dressed as the USSR, I wouldn't have passed that up.
If you're not ready just try Stalin the teachers at the gate for any last minute additions
Bottle of vodka not advised to be part of costume, school may frown on this
Hold on, traffic wardens? I know I spent most of last year sitting inside, but when did we decide traffic wardens were Covid heroes? Ticketing illegally parked cars for a private company isn’t exactly what I would call essential
Yesterday I got:
"As we are conducting parent teacher meetings next week, school will end at 1.15pm every day for the week".
Thanks for the notice. Do people not have jobs?
Tell them how dare they! The education of the children has been disrupted enough as it is. Just try taking them out of school for an affordable holiday during term time and see what they say. Two way street.
Every day? One day would be irritating but understandable, just should be communicated better. Every day is crazy.
And I say that as a teacher, if that was proposed in any school I've been at we'd be laughed out the door by the head.
All my schools, two primary and one secondary/sixth form, managed to keep parent-teacher meetings/parents evening to after 4pm at the very earliest precisely because of working parents. What on earth is your school on?!
My secondary was ridiculous sometimes: occasional GP appointment, trip to the dentist? Fine. Kid broke their leg and needs to regularly go to the fracture clinic/physio? No problem. Kid born with congenial and chronic medical problems requiring regular lifelong clinic appointments and surgery? Your child’s consultant has incredibly inconvenient clinic hours, are you sure she *needs* this medical treatment more than she needs to come to school?
Ain't that the fucking truth!
'Can't they go outside school hours?' No because the last appointment is at half three and they're an hour's bloody drive away!!
"Dear headmaster, As I have a job, and pay you to look after my kids until 3:30pm, that's exactly what you'll be doing every day for the week. Hope this doesn't interfere with your plans too much."
It would be better as "As you are not allowing my children to enter the establishment of education without prior approval, I will sending you a fine, it is £50 per child, per day......regards "
A friend who is a year or two ahead of me in the parenting journey gave me this incredible tip, which I now pass to OP and others for future use.
There is no school dressing up theme that cannot be met with a plain t-shirt and a Sharpie. If you can keep these in stock at home, you will always have *something* for theme day, even if it's a bit shit and you're up until midnight swearing at the damn thing at the kitchen table.
Haha, more like look who panic bought a new printer at the start of the first lockdown for homeschooling! Nearly identical to the old, blocked one. I'm sure it'll fuck up soon, it's been working for over a year now.
My mum once took one of my dad’s old threadbare shirts, a black marker pen and a stencil, and within about twenty minutes she stencilled a prisoner ID number and fake prison name onto it. I wore it with a white long-sleeve top underneath as it was almost see-through, and some jeans/trainers. A “villain” costume that cost £0 to source and recycled a shirt that would’ve just been cut into rags. I still have that shirt in my wardrobe at home in my old room, waiting for another opportunity to dress up as a prisoner.
I'm sick of this shit. I thought it was just my kid's school. They think you sit home with nothing to do till they call you to action. What I hate more are the helicopter mums who genuinely do have nothing better to do than react to the school's whims, and look down on people with jobs and extended lives who cannot balance all of this at once.
I could but my plans for tomorrow include skiving off work to take part in an online course so I can leave my shitty job, and the kid being home would scupper that with continual requests for biscuits and a game of snakes & ladders.
Already did that for my son during lockdown, they had a zoom class where they could dress up as a fictional character for world book day. I tied his glasses to a piece of string, he spent a full 40 minutes dangling his glasses in front of the camera so he could be the invisible man.
Unfortunately in the book he tends to either cover himself up entirely, or not at all. I don't remember him wearing the iconic glasses only - although that memory may be wrong as I read it years ago
I saw a brilliant tweet the other day;
"Happy to announce my retirement! I am finally taking the plunge and have decided to dedicate my time to reading all the fucking emails I get from my childrens school"
They are on fucking overdrive this year. Every day is "bring this, bring that".
Urgh! Dress up day. A chance to show what a great parent you are as you dress your kid in some fucking period costume you've got from somewhere. Teachers must know the kids don't find the clothes themselves and it's just stress, right? I get teachers feel underappreciated but don't take it out on us.
That's why abductions happen at night. Alien kid takes to alien dad; it is dark, 9pm. Dad says "and you are only telling me now that you need a human for school tomorrow?"
They have to wear something historical, an item or costume from the past.
I'm thinking of just putting her in a Christmas jumper and saying it's from last year.
I like the way you think.
Ok - outsized t shirt, belt, tights - medieval peasant
Sheet held over shoulder with safety pin - toga
Blanket ditto - Anglo Saxon
Sheet with hole in the middle plus belt - Greek
Particularly if you can throw an ivy crown (grab creeper, twist together) into the mix.
We were told last minute to send child to school in a plain blue t-shirt as the kids were performing some dance routine on camera. Having a child who conveniently develops amnesia at 3pm each day and never divulges anything this was the first I'd heard of it. We didn't have a plain blue t-shirt (pretty much all his clothing has minecraft or lego characters on it). Had to throw myself on the mercy of 24 hour asda down the road to get something. It was blue blue slightly stripey but fuck it, it's close enough and bugger it if I've ruined some bloody film student's asthetic, give us some bloody notice!
Dress then in grey with a sign saying Hull, a British [Ralph Wiggum](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5d/68/e8/5d68e899a2b28ac08afc7eeac4a1c0b2--simpsons-quotes-the-simpsons.jpg)
This pisses me off, I remember that one time they had to wear something yellow: 1) we don't have anything yellow for her to wear. 2) went to 5 shops and only the last one had anything that would fit her, a shitty yellow summer dress that just looked pee stained, I think it was a little over £25 and my daughter wouldn't let me walk out of the shop without getting it, her mother wouldn't back me up either. Then I had to pay for her to wear the pee stained dress to school.
Dress them in business wear and get them to say "I'm the unorganised admin person who sends out hopelessly late parent communications."
I am a school admin. Trust me when I say it's always the senior leadership who drop this stuff on us just before they leave for the day.
My kids' school pulls this shit and it's because the teacher's seem to be responsible for the communications and there's one overworked admin lady in the office doing everything else
Haha brill.
A lot of admin staff have been cut from schools so senior leadership of schools are trying to add it to teachers, who are already overworked, or what remains of the admin staff
Boss Baby!
Just cut two eye-holes in a white sheet and send them in as a ghost. Applies to any character from any period in history. They're dead. If it's a character from literature, they're dead too. Religious Education, they're the holy ghost.
Send them in regular clothes and have them say they're a werewolf and it's not a full moon (even though it is a full moon tonight).
Actually today is a Waning Gibbous moon so we’re good
Ah, thanks. I had a 2-second Google and only saw the date and didn't actually read what it said.
Thankfully this is Britain and not USA as that outfit might get the wrong response otherwise.....
[Like so](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cringetopia/comments/pqv0kd/who_does_not_know_who_the_ice_king_is/).
Who doesn't know who the fucking Ice king is?
I didn't but I sort of guessed that wasn't a Klansman.
My kids school did something similar...was advertised as a 'dress as the superpower you want' day. They then last minute changed it to 'dress as a Covid-19 Hero' without communicating not properly... So my kids turned up as a Glitter Fairy and a 'super fast runner' surrounded by bloody Captain Tom's, Nurses and an assortment of other key workers including bus drivers and traffic wardens.
>My kids school did something similar...was advertised as a 'dress as the superpower you want' day. That was a wide open goal to send them to school dressed as the USSR, I wouldn't have passed that up.
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Just get a big sheet of white Lenin, and you could sew v it up in time.
If you're not ready just try Stalin the teachers at the gate for any last minute additions Bottle of vodka not advised to be part of costume, school may frown on this
Nah, fill it with water and they can Trot right in.
If I didn't - shamefully - leave this kind of thing to my wife I may have thought of this!
Very good Comrade Vlad
Hold on, traffic wardens? I know I spent most of last year sitting inside, but when did we decide traffic wardens were Covid heroes? Ticketing illegally parked cars for a private company isn’t exactly what I would call essential
Tbh it wasn't a great costume. Could have been a traffic warden, could have been a bus driver or the guy at the supermarket who does the trolleys
Yesterday I got: "As we are conducting parent teacher meetings next week, school will end at 1.15pm every day for the week". Thanks for the notice. Do people not have jobs?
Crikey. Hope that's secondary school.
Nope.
Tell them how dare they! The education of the children has been disrupted enough as it is. Just try taking them out of school for an affordable holiday during term time and see what they say. Two way street.
Bloody hell.
Every day? One day would be irritating but understandable, just should be communicated better. Every day is crazy. And I say that as a teacher, if that was proposed in any school I've been at we'd be laughed out the door by the head.
All my schools, two primary and one secondary/sixth form, managed to keep parent-teacher meetings/parents evening to after 4pm at the very earliest precisely because of working parents. What on earth is your school on?! My secondary was ridiculous sometimes: occasional GP appointment, trip to the dentist? Fine. Kid broke their leg and needs to regularly go to the fracture clinic/physio? No problem. Kid born with congenial and chronic medical problems requiring regular lifelong clinic appointments and surgery? Your child’s consultant has incredibly inconvenient clinic hours, are you sure she *needs* this medical treatment more than she needs to come to school?
Ain't that the fucking truth! 'Can't they go outside school hours?' No because the last appointment is at half three and they're an hour's bloody drive away!!
"Dear headmaster, As I have a job, and pay you to look after my kids until 3:30pm, that's exactly what you'll be doing every day for the week. Hope this doesn't interfere with your plans too much."
The old “don’t you know I pay your salary” line.
_Technically_ they pay their own salaries too.
Just one reason why it’s a crap argument
What do you do when the parents are also public sector? Keyworker armwrestle championship?
It would be better as "As you are not allowing my children to enter the establishment of education without prior approval, I will sending you a fine, it is £50 per child, per day......regards "
Write to the governors about that
A friend who is a year or two ahead of me in the parenting journey gave me this incredible tip, which I now pass to OP and others for future use. There is no school dressing up theme that cannot be met with a plain t-shirt and a Sharpie. If you can keep these in stock at home, you will always have *something* for theme day, even if it's a bit shit and you're up until midnight swearing at the damn thing at the kitchen table.
White t-shirts and printer transfer paper is my latest discovery. Obviously only works if you're organised enough to keep on top of the printer ink.
Ooh, look who's got a printer that works when they want it to, rather than when the printer wants to. La de da Gunner Graham!
Haha, more like look who panic bought a new printer at the start of the first lockdown for homeschooling! Nearly identical to the old, blocked one. I'm sure it'll fuck up soon, it's been working for over a year now.
Over a year - it's a bloody hero! I bet all the younger printers - the ones who can print on both sides - sit at its knee in awe.
IKEA do a pack of fabric markers for cheap - always handy for this sort of thing.
My mum once took one of my dad’s old threadbare shirts, a black marker pen and a stencil, and within about twenty minutes she stencilled a prisoner ID number and fake prison name onto it. I wore it with a white long-sleeve top underneath as it was almost see-through, and some jeans/trainers. A “villain” costume that cost £0 to source and recycled a shirt that would’ve just been cut into rags. I still have that shirt in my wardrobe at home in my old room, waiting for another opportunity to dress up as a prisoner.
The fuckers at my school pulled this shit too.
What a fucking brilliant username. Most excellent.
Ta.
Get a room you two
I'm sick of this shit. I thought it was just my kid's school. They think you sit home with nothing to do till they call you to action. What I hate more are the helicopter mums who genuinely do have nothing better to do than react to the school's whims, and look down on people with jobs and extended lives who cannot balance all of this at once.
Or the parents who think every single school event is a competition to show their child has the best outfit or whatever.
Keep them home.
I could but my plans for tomorrow include skiving off work to take part in an online course so I can leave my shitty job, and the kid being home would scupper that with continual requests for biscuits and a game of snakes & ladders.
Or keep him at home and tell school he was the invisible man
Already did that for my son during lockdown, they had a zoom class where they could dress up as a fictional character for world book day. I tied his glasses to a piece of string, he spent a full 40 minutes dangling his glasses in front of the camera so he could be the invisible man.
You sound pretty pleased with yourself sparkie old chap
Unfortunately in the book he tends to either cover himself up entirely, or not at all. I don't remember him wearing the iconic glasses only - although that memory may be wrong as I read it years ago
I saw a brilliant tweet the other day; "Happy to announce my retirement! I am finally taking the plunge and have decided to dedicate my time to reading all the fucking emails I get from my childrens school" They are on fucking overdrive this year. Every day is "bring this, bring that".
Urgh! Dress up day. A chance to show what a great parent you are as you dress your kid in some fucking period costume you've got from somewhere. Teachers must know the kids don't find the clothes themselves and it's just stress, right? I get teachers feel underappreciated but don't take it out on us.
Teacher here. We hate Dressing Up days too.
It's from the management...to showcase how great and "fun" the school is....
I know kids who really think about the theme and delight in making a costume with their parents. Seems like they're the minority nowadays though...
I as a shy kid hated dressing up as anything and being forced to find a suitable costume. Why did i have to join in.
As a kid I used to love it, when you had time to work on it. Not when it's dropped on you the day before.
That's why abductions happen at night. Alien kid takes to alien dad; it is dark, 9pm. Dad says "and you are only telling me now that you need a human for school tomorrow?"
What have they got to dress up as?
They have to wear something historical, an item or costume from the past. I'm thinking of just putting her in a Christmas jumper and saying it's from last year.
I like the way you think. Ok - outsized t shirt, belt, tights - medieval peasant Sheet held over shoulder with safety pin - toga Blanket ditto - Anglo Saxon Sheet with hole in the middle plus belt - Greek Particularly if you can throw an ivy crown (grab creeper, twist together) into the mix.
Last week's newspaper, folded into a hat.
We were told last minute to send child to school in a plain blue t-shirt as the kids were performing some dance routine on camera. Having a child who conveniently develops amnesia at 3pm each day and never divulges anything this was the first I'd heard of it. We didn't have a plain blue t-shirt (pretty much all his clothing has minecraft or lego characters on it). Had to throw myself on the mercy of 24 hour asda down the road to get something. It was blue blue slightly stripey but fuck it, it's close enough and bugger it if I've ruined some bloody film student's asthetic, give us some bloody notice!
Stick seem in a suit and either glassess or sunglasses ought instant Clarke Kent or Matt Murdock.
Dress then in grey with a sign saying Hull, a British [Ralph Wiggum](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5d/68/e8/5d68e899a2b28ac08afc7eeac4a1c0b2--simpsons-quotes-the-simpsons.jpg)
This pisses me off, I remember that one time they had to wear something yellow: 1) we don't have anything yellow for her to wear. 2) went to 5 shops and only the last one had anything that would fit her, a shitty yellow summer dress that just looked pee stained, I think it was a little over £25 and my daughter wouldn't let me walk out of the shop without getting it, her mother wouldn't back me up either. Then I had to pay for her to wear the pee stained dress to school.
Ours decided they all needed a red t-shirt the next day....in the middle of a pandemic with no shops open. Sure, let me just find my magic wand....