How to handle grandparent's day at school without a grandparent?
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Anonymous
This is exactly why they stopped doing it at our school despite it being a tradition for decades prior. My parents and ILs are local so my kids always had too many grandparents there. I wouldn't worry about your child OP--she will not be the only one and some will have more than one grandparent there so they will probably just all work at their same table with whatever grandparents are there. And sometimes the grandparents are just there to observe and don't really get involved. But yeah, it's a problematic event. I wasn't sad when they stopped it at my kids' school (though the grandparents were). |
Anonymous
I kind of agree with this. Just in my daughter’s grade, there’s at least one kid with no mom and multiple kids with no dad. Plus many who don’t have living/local grandparents. So why not just have “family day” or something more general? |
Anonymous
Our public school stopped doing Mother's Day Tea, Muffins with Mom, and Donuts with Dad for this reason. While I 100% see why, it was kind of sad on some level. The events didn't turn into more generic family/caregiver events. They just petered out. |
Anonymous
At non woke schools life goes on |
Anonymous
Agree. Please keep your kid home. I sent my child without a grandparent (they were out of the country) one year. She was isolated for half the day and not happy as all of her friends had grandparents there. I no longer send her. |
Anonymous
We have 3 kids in my child’s grade who each had one parent die during elementary school. Those families are probably the biggest proponents of grandparents’ day. I don’t think there is a specific day that will make everyone happy. But at our school, grandparents have the most money so that day makes the development office the most happy. |
Anonymous
Not necessarily. I am PP whose school did this up until last year and its public/MCPS. |
Anonymous
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I will echo that when my kids attended catholic school this was a huge thing. Grandparents traveled from out of town to attend. It was partly fund raiser for the school. Many families tuitions were paid by the Grandparents.
One year my ILs chose not to go because they were worried about germs, and I can't say I blame them. This is not a thing at public schools and I dont miss it. |
Anonymous
| My kid's local grandparents declined going to grandparent's day because it started to early and the parking is not great around the school. I didn't even bring it up this year. Oh well - they come to other things. She's never really complained about it. |
Anonymous
| Write to the school and insist it be rebranded as "Special Person's Day" |
Anonymous
| Money talks in these privates |
Anonymous
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Our kids grandparents come every year for this event. They love it. My parents can drive but stay overnight, ILs fly in for a few days. It coincides with DS’s bday. It was a little sad for all of us when my father passed away just 2 months before one year’s event, but sadness is a part of life.
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Anonymous
| Suck it up and deal with it. Seriously. There are kids in much worse situations. If this is the worse thing to happen to you and your kids, you’ve lived a charmed life. I watched my mother die from cancer. |
Anonymous
Well aren’t you bitter |
Anonymous
Pp here. If your mother died from cancer at age 60 and you also had to watch your father have a mental breakdown because of it, you’d be bitter too. |