For Crying Out Loud!!

Well! All I can say is what a load of Politically Correct rubbish! Kids need to learn about the real world and rejection is a hard fact. When we get rejected from time to time when we are kids, we quickly pick ourselves up and get on with our life. I remember being hurt when I fell in love with this girl in my class when I was about 12 years old and she didn't feel the same way and told me to get lost. Yes, I was hurt and it happened several times as I grew into adulthood. Everytime I got over it and on one occasion I tried to run away! I came back when I felt cold and hungry though, and had a good talking to about being irresponsible from my parents. My Dad sympathised, but he said it happens. Rejection is part of growing up and a learning process and has made me what I am today. Hurt! No, I'm joking. When the time was right I met my wife and settled down for life. _Derek

In our schools, the children can choose to give out Valentine's Day cards or not. However, if they choose to give them out, then they have to give them to every single child in the class and not leave anybody out. That is fair, in my opinion, because then there are no hurt feelings with one child getting more or less than another. They are not viewed as "romantic expressions of affection" but rather an expression of friendship, which is more appropriate given the ages of the children, in my opinion.

I see the scenario. Lonely people in front of computers, no cards, no emotions, no love, no Valentines, no Christmas, no Holidays, no Partners. They will buy in the future artificial love....ROXXXY...as is on the market already for $7000...(they are working on male model also) No emotional trauma, ROXXXY only knows how to do small, nice talk...and is always politically correct.

Yeah, I saw this. There's concern over here that some kids will feel left out, so the teachers (in the lower grades anyway) usually require them to bring one for everybody in the class if they're going to bring them. That's a much more sensible approach, I think.

Hello, Janey. What a load of rubbish. The reason our society is so obssessed with rights and so careless of responsibilities is because for so many years, we've been shielding people from the real world. If we don't ever learn to deal with disappointment and our path is smoothed for us, we assume the world owes us a living. When I was a teenager, I was disappointed because my best friend received two Valentine cards and I only got one. I complained to my mother, and she said, 'If you want more Valentine cards next year, make yourself more attractive to the boys. It's your own fault if nobody fancies you enough to send you a card.' These days, such a response would be seen as akin to child abuse, but it did the trick. From that day, I always made the best of myself. Now, at 57, I still get men asking for dates - and more - even though I'm spoken for. It's part of growing up to learn to deal with rejection, and to compete for what you want, and this head teacher is doing the pupils no favours.

That's just downright idiotic in my opinion Kids need to learn that during life, they will be rejected and turned away by many people. We should let them understand this rather than cotton-wrap them and make sure their feelings don't get hurt. It's a tough world sometimes, and the sooner people understand that, the better in my opinion.

First the Grinch steals Christmas, now he's after Valentine's Day? What's next? Hallowe'en? (Don't want to upset the pagans and wiccans, now do we?) I think it's time the PC Police had a good, long look in the mirror and realise by "not offending" this group or that, they're offending another group-- the people's whose customs are deemed "offensive". ... sounds like the head teacher had a massive brain fart.

hi janey well do I remember my childhood and the Valentine day thing at school, when the teacher would hand out the Valentines to us and I maybe got one or two, while the class model child,who really was a brat but sucked up to the teacher, got fifteen or more. I got to hate the whole thing and felt angry that some of us got zilch while others lorded it over us. I think the whole concept should be scrapped. people in love should damned well show their love not on just one day but all year round. here in the US its a big thing and mostly commercialized and again some are doomed to be hurt as hubbys now days specially cannot afford the expensive flowers or boxes of chocolates the media has made womanthink they must get on Valentines day irregardless of the fact hubby may be out of work and almost broke. NO Valentine's day has come to me to be something that should be phased out. too many get hurt