When I first read the leaked email from W.L. McLeod Elementary that canceled Mother’s and Father’s Day, I was flabbergasted! It explicitly states, bolded and underlined, “We will not acknowledge traditional Mother’s and Father’s Days at McLeod. Please do not do so in your class.”
The email goes on to include a link to a Toronto Star article – the journal of wokeism - titled “It’s Time to Get Rid of Mother’s Day.” Since the leaked email went public, much of the response from School District 91 is just a whole lot of verbal gymnastics to justify the unjustifiable.
I think of those tender moments when a child comes home from school with a macaroni necklace, clay handprint, or a stick figure drawing and says, “I love you, mom!” and hangs it proudly on the fridge. Or the teenager who writes a poem thanking their father for putting up with them and sticks it in his sock drawer to find. I shrink in agony to think that any person should want to deprive a mother or father of that joy.
Mother’s and Father’s Day is not just about traditional families. It’s about celebrating that single mom, who has struggled and sacrificed so much to feed and raise good kids – she deserves a Mother’s Day. It’s about foster kids bringing a gift to dad on their Father’s Day visit because they really do still love him – those kids and that dad need a Father’s Day. It’s about remembering a lost parent, spreading love to caregivers, and helping a child make a gift because they are too young to make their grandparent guardian breakfast in bed. Mother’s and Father’s Day is an opportunity to heal families, to recognize that moms and dads aren’t’ perfect but we love them anyway. The power of children is their healing love and they’re trying to take that out of schools. You shame us all, SD 91.
How heartless have you become to think that you made the world a better place by canceling Mother’s and Father’s Day? That one moment of love between a mother or father and their child is worth more to our society than all your virtue signaling woke lectures on “honouring diversity”. Since when did we stop honouring mothers and fathers and start honouring ideologies?
We can’t let them cancel Mother’s and Father’s Day. Mothers and fathers are the foundation of our society and deserve to be celebrated, flaws and all. I for one won’t remain silent. The School District thinks I’m in the minority so we need your voices to stop this. Tell School District 91 to bring back Mother’s Day and Father’s Day! Sign the petition at https://www.change.org/SaveMothersDay.
Dan Brooks
Vanderhoof
