According to the front page feature, students at a Jewish day school on Manhattan's Upper West Side came home with an unusual note tucked into their book bags. At this time, these holidays are not needed to enhance our writing and arts programs. We are a school with many different family makeups, and we need to recognize the emotional well-being of all the children in our school. Holidays that serve no educational purpose and are not vital to the children's education need to be evaluated in terms of their importance in a school setting, as the recognition of these holidays in a social setting may not be a positive experience for all children. For Father's Day they decorated soup cans for their dads to use as pen holders.
Some kids have one parent.
Or, they may be two fathers, two mothers, the mother may not have custody, it could be a grandmother. All throughout the history of Mother's Day, there have been kids who, for whatever reason, don't have a mother around - whether they've lost their mother through death or abandonment, but we didn't stop celebrating Mother's Day for that. According to Wright, the school's decision may reflect a hidden agenda. This may not necessarily be about making kids who are in different kinds of family situations feel more accepted. They are trying to make mothers feel unnecessary and unappreciated.