- Father wrote letter to his daughter’s school slamming gender-based activities
- The New South Wales dad accused the school of taking pupils back to the 1960s
- Said school offered make-up sessions to girls while boys sent to hardware store
- Letter widely applauded on social media and has been liked nearly 3,000 times
A furious father has written an impassioned letter to his daughter’s school slamming the gender-based activities it offered its Year 6 students.
The concerned parent, from New South Wales, accused the school of taking pupils back to the 1960s by offering hair and make-up sessions to girls while boys were sent to a hardware store.
‘When Ruby left for school yesterday it was 2017 but when she returned home in the afternoon she was from 1968,’ he wrote in a letter to the school principal which he posted on Twitter.
‘I know this to be the case as Ruby informed me that the ”girls” in Year 6 would be attending the school library to get their hair and make-up done on Monday afternoon while the ”boys” are going to Bunnings.
The concerned parent, from New South Wales, accused the school of taking pupils back to the 1960s by offering hair and make-up sessions to girls while boys were sent to Bunnings (stock)
‘When Ruby left for school yesterday it was 2017 but when she returned home in the afternoon she was from 1968,’ he wrote in a letter to the school principal
‘Are you able to search the school buildings for a rip in the space-time continuum? Perhaps there is a faulty Flux Capacitor hidden away in the girls’ toilet block?’
He asked the school to return its student ‘to this millennium’ and to stop ‘sharply’ dividing children ‘along gender lines’.
The father’s letter was widely applauded on social media and his post has since gone viral.
‘Good on you – reminds me of my primary school in the early 70’s where the girls did embroidery while the boys did sport. At least embroidery involved a skill though,’ one wrote on Twitter.
The father asked the school to return its student ‘to this millennium’ and to stop ‘sharply’ dividing children ‘along gender lines’ (stock image)
‘I don’t wear makeup I don’t brush my hair even hardly and Bunnings is my favourite,’ a woman commented on social media (stock)
‘I’d much prefer Bunnings! I had to fight to do maths enrichment instead of grooming and deportment classes when I was at school. I was the only girl in that class,’ another said.
Yet another wrote: ‘I don’t wear makeup I don’t brush my hair even hardly and Bunnings is my favourite.
‘I hope my daughter is the same. Girls should not be shepherded away from that!’