My daughter is rather anxious about not receiving a red-silk rose her school have been selling for the past few days off a boy...this and worries that if others buy her one, will she have enough red roses to return the gesture.
Really, starting high school is awkward and challenging enough as it is, should kids have to worry about this rubbish now also?
This is commercialism/opportunism taking the FUN out of fund-raising.
I say we ban these silly red-roses from schools as fund-raisers, why should kids feel pressured to purchase peers plastic roses for heavens sake, a gift they wouldn't have otherwise thought to purchase every tom dick and Harry if they weren't being flogged from tables at their schools canteen.
It's getting way out of hand....kids are buying them for their same sex friends even (particularly the girls), aren't at all upholding the underlying meaning/notion of valentines day itself.
Are they all suddenly lesbians?
"How come you bought her one and not me, I thought I was your friend too..or do you like her more than me"
"I bought you a red rose, so where's mine?"
*head shakes*
Preying on kids desire/pressure to please 'ALL' their friends, this opposed to giving a valentines gift to someone they are romantically involved with.
My daughter came home with 6 yesterday...$2 each...(all given to her by female friends from her class) ....do they even know what Valentines day means?
Thu 11 Feb 2010 - 1:09