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[quote=Anonymous]This is honestly just a PSA for anyone involved in planning spirit week themes for schools. Any school.

Please don't do twin day. It is the worst. There is no way for it not to be terrible, I know because I've seen several efforts to make it less terrible, and it doesn't matter. It's still bad. It is especially bad for younger kids (because they need a lot of help from parents to execute it) but it also creates problems for 4th and 5th graders sometimes too.

Best case scenario, your kid has a bestie or besties AND they can either coordinate on their own or the parents are able to coordinate AND no one gets sick or forgets.

In reality, some kids struggle to find a "twin", there are sometimes arguments over what to wear, it turns out one of the kids doesn't have a matching item so they either need their parent to purchase/borrow it last minute or find another twin or convince their twin to do something else or whatever. I have had years where teachers have assigned "twins" to kids in an effort to ensure no one gets left out. This still doesn't work because not all parents get the memo, kids override the assignments, etc. And there are always kids who forget or don't show up.

Do anything else. Mismatch day, pajama day, plaid day, black out day, white out day, silly hair day, whatever. Just not twin day. Please. It takes too much coordination and results in too much disappointment and hurt feelings over absolutely nothing.[/quote]

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