I am so sick of hearing about all the things schools are banning or now prohibiting. Its ridiculous! My sister is ten year younger than me and currently in high school I have sent her flowers at school since she was in sixth grade its a tradition now. If her school ban them I would be pretty mad. I would actually just bring them anyway, and insist on delivering them myself if it was such a strain on the school.

Maybe it’s the jaded 16-year-old in me, but I say bravo! It *was* heartwrenching to see the prettier, cooler girls get flowers delivered during home room. And it’s not like they’re not allowing kids to celebrate it — bring the damn flowers yourself, or give a different gift! I totally agree that it (nerd alert) shouldn’t cut into teaching time. Where I live, they’re having to cut school hours enough to meet budget, so they really should get as much out of the hours they’re actually there.

Maybe I’m just old fashioned but I think celebrations at school have gotten way out of hand period. My son is almost 3 and this a list of the parties his class will have this year:

-beginning of the year picnic
-fall (Halloween) party
-Thanksgiving party complete with personalized placemats made for all 20 of the kids by a mom
-winter (Christmas) party. I spent half that party at Target buying books for kids to give whose parents didn’t know about the swap.
-Valentines party.
-Spring (Easter egg hunt) party
-End of year party

That doesn’t even include the arms race that kids’ birthday celebrations at school have become. It started last year with strict rules about it being something simple and healthy and has morphed into pizza deliveries, huge fancy cakes, noise makers and who knows what else.

I honestly think that the celebrations and parties have become more about bored moms showing off than about doing something for the kids.

Laure68 – they didn’t do this in my high school either. We had carnations that the National Honor Society sold (I think it was honor society – maybe it was SADD, it’s been awhile!), but that was an in-school fundraiser.

In my high school it was an ASB fundraiser. They sold carnations for $1 & they were only delivered during one period of the day (sometimes 2 if there were too many to do in one). Because they were so cheap, almost all the girls would at least get one & I went to a HUGE high school. Friends sent them to friends just for fun, after all it was just a dollar.

We did this as a fundraiser for Latin Club. We had three differnt colors of carnations – one meant love, one meant “secret admirer”, and one just meant friendship, so a lot of people (primarily girls) just sent those flowers to each other. Taking a few minutes out of the day for something like this is no big deal.

No deliveries in class during class time. No cell phones, no texting, etc. You are there to LEARN.

If the school wants to organize something that’s one thing. Then its organized. But random florists delivering random flowers all day -no.

However deliveries during breaks, spares, before/after school what have you -that’s fine.