February 5, 201016 yr School bans 'slovenly' mothers from wearing pyjamas when they drop their children off By Laura Clark Last updated at 3:39 PM on 05th February 2010 Schools are following Tesco's example and taking a stand against parents who turn up at the gates wearing pyjamas. They are chastising parents for dropping children off - and collecting them in the afternoon - without first changing out of their nightwear and slippers. One head has written to parents warning that their failure to get dressed for the school run is 'slovenly and rude'. Parents are being urged to dress appropriately when dropping their children off at school (file photo) He took action after up to 50 mothers a day began arriving in the mornings wearing pyjamas and slippers. The moves comes after a Tesco store in Cardiff took the unprecedented step of banning customers from shopping in their nightwear. Staff at the branch imposed a dress code after noticing that large numbers of women were walking down the aisles in dressing gowns, pyjamas and slippers. A notice at the entrance to the store now reads: 'To avoid causing offence or embarrassment to others we ask that our customers are appropriately dressed when visiting our store (footwear must be worn at all times and no nightwear is permitted.' Mother-of-two Elaine Carmody, 24, was one of the first to be marched out of Tesco by a security guard for wearing her pyjamas in store. She said: 'I just don't understand it. I go in other shops in my pyjamas and they don't say anything. Unwelcome: Elaine Carmody was asked to leave a Tesco store in Cardiff because she was wearing pyjamas Now it has emerged that many teachers are behind the store's stance. Head teacher Joe McGuinness became so fed up with PJ-clad mothers turning up at his primary school he sent a special bulletin home with the children. Wearing pyjamas and slippers when dropping off their children at school was 'slovenly and rude', he said. He wrote: 'Over recent months the number of adults leaving children at school or collecting children from school dressed in pyjamas has risen considerably. 'While it is not my position to insist on what people wear, or don't, I feel that arriving at the school in pyjamas is disrespectful to the school and a bad example to set to children.' Defending his stance, he said: 'There used to be about 15 to 20 pyjama-wearing parents, but there is anything up to 50 now. 'People don't go to see a solicitor, bank manager or doctor dressed in pyjamas, so why do they think it's okay to drop their children off at school dressed like that?' Mr McGuinness said EU law prevented him from banning mothers from wearing pyjamas to his school, St Matthew's Primary in Belfast. But he said there had been no complaints since he sent the letters home several months ago. Most teachers who contributed to an online discussion about nightwear on the school run were strongly in favour of a tougher line against PJ-wearing parents. 'They are indecent slobs with no respect for themselves or others. It should be illegal to dress that way,' one wrote on the Times Educational Supplement online forum (pls keep). Another said: 'I wonder what those slobs in pyjamas would say if they were to enter the classroom only to find their children's teachers there, dressed in their pyjamas.' One said parents who wore nightwear to school marked themselves out as 'Jeremy Kyle' watchers. The teacher commented: 'I don't find it particularly offensive to see parents at the school gate in PJs, and we have plenty of them where I work. 'I do admit that I mentally categorise the repeat offenders as Jeremy Kyle-watching sofa-hoggers, but at least they have bothered to bring their children to school/collect them on time.' Five per cent of parents have driven their children to school wearing pyjamas at least once, according to a survey by Vauxhall cars. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248800/School-bans-slovenly-mothers-dropping-children-dressed-pyjamas.html#ixzz0ehhIcta3
February 6, 201016 yr The teacher commented: 'I don't find it particularly offensive to see parents at the school gate in PJs, and we have plenty of them where I work. 'I do admit that I mentally categorise the repeat offenders as Jeremy Kyle-watching sofa-hoggers, but at least they have bothered to bring their children to school/collect them on time.' This is the only tolerable one I could not mentally scorn at.
February 6, 201016 yr How does this justify a :D next to the thread name? O_o edit: I love how they didn't even edit out the little (pls keep) somebody attached to this article... oh the Daily Mail <3
February 6, 201016 yr How does this justify a :D next to the thread name? O_o edit: I love how they didn't even edit out the little (pls keep) somebody attached to this article... oh the Daily Mail <3 Mark's typical response to this is that all newspapers make mistakes, which isn't true, and also doesn't make it OK anyway.
February 6, 201016 yr The best I can do? What do you mean by that? I've never seen such a blatant attempt to stir trouble. So now you want me to start being abusive and argumentative? It was simply the truth, what I wrote is what you post every time someone criticises the Daily Mail.
February 6, 201016 yr Author The best I can do? What do you mean by that? I've never seen such a blatant attempt to stir trouble. So now you want me to start being abusive and argumentative? It was simply the truth, what I wrote is what you post every time someone criticises the Daily Mail. Incorrect, but has nothing to do with the topic anyway.:rolleyes:
February 6, 201016 yr Incorrect http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3919159&postcount=5 http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3913350&postcount=18 Aaand so forth..
February 6, 201016 yr Author http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3919159&postcount=5 http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showpost.php?p=3913350&postcount=18 Aaand so forth.. That is by no means every time (therefore what you said is totally inaccurate), and i'm right anyway.;) And it still has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic.:smug:
February 6, 201016 yr Even if you were right (By the way you can't just write "I'm right" without any reason) you seem to think it's acceptable. I don't see typos in the Telegraph, the Guardian or the Business Post. The best I can do? What do you mean by that? I've never seen such a blatant attempt to stir trouble. So now you want me to start being abusive and argumentative? You do realise that people can see you ignoring points?
February 6, 201016 yr I've seen two typos in the Wall Street Journal and I've been reading at least parts of it on a pretty regular basis for five years.
February 7, 201016 yr Author Even if you were right (By the way you can't just write "I'm right" without any reason) you seem to think it's acceptable. I don't see typos in the Telegraph, the Guardian or the Business Post. I'm sure you haven't read every copy ever printed from cover-to-cover, though, so you couldn't possibly know.:rolleyes:
February 7, 201016 yr I'm sure you haven't read every copy ever printed from cover-to-cover Well I have, so fuck you.
February 7, 201016 yr Author Yes. Fuck you. At least that explains all the "porkies", then.:rolleyes:
February 8, 201016 yr At least that explains all the "porkies", then.:rolleyes: You probably would believe I'm actually Tony Blair in disguise.
February 8, 201016 yr Author You probably would believe I'm actually Tony Blair in disguise. Stranger things have been known.:rolleyes: So how's Cherie?
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