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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PSA to teachers and parents in PTA- twin day excludes many children. Some kids don’t have a bestie. Some kids feel different, think they look different, have social anxiety, other issues that make it hard for them to connect and have many friends. I know a student who everyone thought had many friends and hid in the bathroom bawling on twin day. Everyone else had a partner but them. They had friends but no best friend. Poor thing still breaks my heart. [/quote]

Yes to all this. My kid takes time to make friends, but through her diligence and effort, has two friends in class. On twin day they dressed alike and didn’t include her. This was a horrible way for her to learn that they considered themselves best friends but NOT her. She was going to learn it, but this was such a stark and unnecessary way to do so. It didn’t facilitate their closeness to each other, which was always fine. It only highlighted for my kid that she is still an outsider.

It especially frustrated me because the school has a strict uniform code that is premised on helping the kids overcome differences and see each other as equals and friends. Except during spirit week, when apparently kids should be forced to daily confront the ways in which they are not equal, and make it obvious to everyone.[/quote]

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