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  • Parents – anyone else got tears tonight?…
  • the-muffin-man
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    Big day tomorrow – my daughters last day at Primary School. Only her and 1 other girl are going to the same ‘big school’ next year, so it really is a parting of the ways.

    The head mistress of 25+ years is also leaving, and so is her right-hand woman (and my daughters year 4 to 6 teacher), who’s been at the school almost as long.

    It’s the end of an era for our small primary school.

    And it’s going to be a bit dusty at 3.30pm tomorrow!

    Drac
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    Nope had my kids up the valley today playing in the river with the dingy, building dams and swimming before calling in for an ice cream on the way home. Very happy kids and dog tonight.

    rewski
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    Yep, gonna be emotional. They’ve done a homage to the pharrel Williams happy track to show at the leavers assembly. My boy is ready to move on so a bittersweet experience, roll on summer hols. 😀

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    MoreCashThanDash
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    Slightly different scenario to the op, so this is not a dig at you!

    Eldest leaves primary as well tomorrow. Special service at church in the morning. Lots of highly emotional parents already talking about tears. Various feuding Facebook parent groups have arranged different meals/events for their stuck up and pretentious off spring.

    Ffs, they are all going to the same secondary in September. They will all be playing together over the summer nearly every day. We are pariahs for refusing to stump another 20 quid so he can be limo-ed to a laser quest tomorrow night. It’s the parents with issues, not the kids!

    Legoman
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    Was last Friday for us. Barely a dry eye in the house.
    My lad had been pretty laid back about it all week, then the whole class got up on stage and sang Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know – the gravity of it seemed to hit him halfway through & he was in floods of tears (along with most of the other kids)..

    Of all the school plays, assemblies etc we’ve attended over the last 7 years, I wouldn’t have missed this one for the world.

    Did get a bit dusty in there, I must admit!

    eddiebaby
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    WTF is wrong with you lot?
    Kids leave school and go to new school. So what? Why aren’t they going the same school as their mates? Is it down to your choices?
    Jesus. It gets more like some teen US movie everyday on here.

    chewkw
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    eddiebaby – Member

    WTF is wrong with you lot?
    Kids leave school and go to new school. So what? Why aren’t they going the same school as their mates? Is it down to your choices?
    Jesus. It gets more like some teen US movie everyday on here.

    Ya, are we in US type reality telly now?

    FFS! Get a grip of yourself. Slap! Slap! (long queue of people waiting to slap OP’s face Airplane style)

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0GW0Vnr9Yc[/video]

    bonchance
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    yeah – what were these posters thinking – a pleasant thread ffs!

    glad you stomped on it dude! I was worried for a few seconds..

    johnj2000
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    They do seem to play music to evoke emotion at everything these days. There will come a time when you reach for the last beer in the fridge and ‘that’ Elbow track will automatically play and bring you to tears.

    Legoman
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    WTF is wrong with you lot?
    Kids leave school and go to new school. So what? Why aren’t they going the same school as their mates? Is it down to your choices?
    Jesus. It gets more like some teen US movie everyday on here.

    Way to suck to joy out of a thread about people discussing a milestone in their kid’s lives.
    Well done you.

    MoreCashThanDash
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    I have some sympathy with parents being emotional – the OPs situation is a bit different to just the kids going up to secondary – but we never gave leaving primary a second thought, it was about moving on and we never even thought to look back and think about being emotional, and my parents were the same. Mind you, we never had a “prom” when we left secondary either, just a disco 👿

    Interestingly just had a chat with a mate who’s daughter has refused to go to any of the cliquey girls meals out tomorrow night that she was invited to as she is so sick of the bitching and back biting. I think he should be proud of the way he has raised her!

    MoreCashThanDash
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    Legoman – it is a milestone. But no one has died. Some parents need a little perspective. Or less guilt about whatever it is that is driving their behaviour.

    wrightyson
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    My son is over the moon as tomorrow will be his last day of year 4 with the useless woman that has been his teacher for the year, well I say the year, she’s had more time off than anyone else I know in a full time job, and even missed his class photo. This ain’t a general teacher bash either, as up till now they’ve been excellent. Roll on next year…

    freeagent
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    I’m sure when the time comes i’ll be the same, we’re 3 years into what will be an 11 year relationship with our village primary school (by the time our youngest has passed through) so will have spent a lot of time there.

    Enjoy these milestones, and shed a tear if it makes you feel better.

    rewski
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    Eddiebaby, your entire sentence and forum name is like something out of a teen US movie. I’d start watching decent films if I were you.

    Legoman
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    MoreCashThanDash – Member
    Legoman – it is a milestone. But no one has died. Some parents need a little perspective. Or less guilt about whatever it is that is driving their behaviour.

    Yeah of course it needs to be kept in perspective but I’m not commenting on ‘some parents’, just my own recent experience: small village school, no prom, no parents meals, just a bunch of like-minded people enjoying seeing their kids say goodbye to somewhere they’ve spent the most important 7 years of their lives.

    If that resembles a US teen movie, it must be one I haven’t seen!

    johndoh
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    End of their first year for my two today.

    It’ll be moments before we’ll be saying goodbye to their last day at primary school.

    MoreCashThanDash
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    Actually, you can all ignore everything I’ve written.

    Just been told by my mum that she will not be attending her grandsons leavers service – where he will be performing a solo on the flute, apparently 🙄 – because they have an urgent appointment to get a new hose for their Dyson.

    It appears my insensitivity is hereditary!

    DezB
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    My boy seems to be taking it in his stride. His best mate goes to a different school, but I’m pretty sure they aren’t the emotional kind! Got some great photos of my lad going to his final school disco in the anti-limo – plastic electric pink car! He was the star of the night!!

    the-muffin-man
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    Legoman – it is a milestone. But no one has died. Some parents need a little perspective. Or less guilt about whatever it is that is driving their behaviour.

    WTF are you on about!!!

    Not that you’re interested – but my daughters school is a small school. She’s been there 7 years, and with a lot of the kids from mother and toddler.

    There’s always been a really good atmosphere at the school, and most of the parents socialise together.

    In reference to tears I was referring to our children, not really the parents. But hey, some will cry because that’s what people do.

    Re going to different schools – it’s the way of the modern world today – I don’t agree with it, but that’s a topic for another thread.

    FWIW our daughter is going to the local High School that kids from her primary school have gone to for decades, and she can catch the bus from the bottom of our road. It’s the other parents who feel the need to cart their kids half way around the county to the ‘best’ school.

    MoreCashThanDash
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    muffin-man – a couple of times I have stressed your story is different with the teachers moving on as well, I wasn’t trying to drag you in with the idiots at our place.

    barkm
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    yeh there was a bit of this when my two lads went through the schools, but only for a minority, it does seem more common now. Not my cup of tea personally, but I kind of get it, in these modern touchy feely days it’s a lot more acceptable to let go of ones emotions, I don’t think that’s a bad thing, but it’s definitely a new thing in some situations.
    Wait till someone tells them they probably have to sit in an office for the rest of their useful lives, proper tears then 😆

    the-muffin-man
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    Apologies to MoreCashThanDash – my response was a bit aggressive last night. I’d missed some of what you had said and focussed on the negative bits!

    Soz!!

    martinhutch
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    My two left primary school yesterday – certainly plenty of tears for one of them, even the teachers were blubbing a bit.

    I was feeling sad too – picking them up after school has been a nice part of my daily ritual for several years, and I won’t be doing that at secondary school.

    “You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.”

    ir_bandito
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    Funny, I don’t remember anyone ever crying when I finished at any school. Maybe I’m an emotionless b’stard.

    grievoustim
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    It’s definitely a change. No tears when primary school finished for me and my peers – just excitement

    But for both my daughters there seemed to be an expectation that there would be tears at the end of primary

    I don’t see anything wrong with genuine emotion – but it did all feel a little forced to me

    aracer
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    I had to restrain myself from laughing at the leavers service yesterday when one of the kids at the front cracked up during the last song – I figured it wasn’t the done thing and it might just be me finding it amusing. Was actually in the school working on IT for most of yesterday and an admirable lack of overdone emotion it seemed (even though it is standard for kids to go to 3 different high schools from here – all roughly equidistant, ironically almost nobody goes to the nearest as it has a different catchment). Though a hugely excessive amount of food brought in for the Y6 picnic lunch, which we got to pick from afterwards – it seems most of them had brought in enough to feed the whole class!

    brassneck
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    Bit dusty at my youngest moving on from nursery to ‘real’ school – mainly because he’s ‘the last one’ and partially because being the 3rd of 3, reading his EoT book, made me realise I’d missed rather a lot through being blase.

    Will be putting in some more time with him. Although it will probably be time consisting of him repeatedly punching me in the goolies, his favourite hobby 😯

    BoardinBob
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    Leavers’ service? Limos to laser quest? Pharrell’s “Happy” butchered by pre-pubescent vagabonds?

    New age hippy nonsense. None of this clap trap in my day. Just the fear of the older kids at the new school balanced by the fact you could now cross the playing fields and terrorise the primary school kids as you were now a “Granger” and you could righfully challenge the best fighter.

    vinnyeh
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    wtf, thought I, when wife showed me facebook pic of a friends 4 year old in a mortar board.
    Thought it was some kind of posed photo she’d set up for relatives, she has form for that sort of thing
    But no, seems like grad ceremonies for 4 year olds are the Next Big Thing.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28399266

    Hopefully my two will be gone from primary before the idea makes it’s way up.
    I have enough problems coping with the idea of leavers hoodies.

    twinw4ll
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    Where’s the button that blows up the world?

    Nobeerinthefridge
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    Christ, must be a slow news day….

    eddiebaby
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    Sorry about yesterday. Had a bad day and wasn;t in the mood for owt.

    PimpmasterJazz
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    As long as no-one’s ordered a stretch Hummer or spent £1000 on a prom dress, I have no personal objection to this thread.

    If you have done the above, any chance you can lend me a tenner?

    rewski
    Free Member

    @eddiebaby – I’m feeling so emotional I’m willing to except your apology 🙂 I was OK until they did the slideshow then my hay fever really kicked in.

    edlong
    Free Member

    There was an article I read a while ago, must have been in the grauniad, about how leaving primary is a bigger wrench for mums than kids – for lots of mums when their lifestyles changed post kiddies arriving, the playground network becomes central socially. Even if the kids are all going to secondary together, the parents aren’t hanging around the playground twice a day any more so that all stops.

    Mixed blessing imo: Our eldest seemed to be in a group with kids who’s parents were reasonable and there’s some enduring relationships. The parents of our youngest’s year group are a right bunch of bitchy sods and best avoided.

    tenfoot
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    I went to my son’s leavers assembly today. There were a lot of emotional people – children, teachers and parents.

    For my boy and his peers, it’s an end of an era, a sign that they’re all growing up and moving on in life. For me that’s a reason to be happy and also a little sad as he’s leaving behind a community which has helped shape the person he has become, so far. He didn’t seem phased at all, though, but he is a very level headed boy.

    MoreCashThanDash
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    tenfoot – pretty much describes how our service went, the kids see it as a big change and challenge, excitement overcoming apprehension.

    At least we found out why we had to send in a photo of him when he started school – big video montage showing photos of them aged 4 or 5, and photos taken the last couple of months. They really do grow up quick! 😥

    Nobeerinthefridge
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    I cried when the summer hols ended, not when they started!. 😀

    botanybay
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    Pharell **** Williams! Hahahahhahahahahh!

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