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A talk to the high school students of Hawthorn School for Girls in Toronto Feb 7, 2013
Parents launch petition to bring back Father’s Day cards after school replaces holiday with ‘Family Day’Michelle Allaby spent Thursday night carrying a stack of paper door-to-door in her Dartmouth, N.S., neighbourhood. She and two other mothers have amassed more than 350 signatures in protest of what they call “political correctness to the extreme.”
Less than a month before Father’s Day, the women are trying to reverse a year-old decision at Astral Drive Elementary School that has kept students from making a card or craft for the holiday.
The school replaced both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day with a “Family Day” in an attempt to avoid isolating children whose families don’t adhere to the traditional mother-father model.
How prescient I was more than 40 years ago, when I decided that I would no longer celebrate Mother’s Day on the grounds that it was a kitschy tool of Hallmark imperialism, designed to wrest the maximum amount of cash from a herd-like population through the........
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Barbara Kay: Let them have Father’s Day
Posted on 2013-05-24 10:52:43
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