A Darlington headteacher recently asked parents on the school run to stop turning up in their pyjamas – but others argue that sleepwear is the height of fashionViv Groskop,comedian No. It’s not OK to wear pyjamas in public. The headteacher of a primary school in Darlington wrote to parents last week saying that she had noticed “an increasing tendency to escort children to and from school while still wearing their pyjamas and, on occasion, and even slippers”. Since then,at least one mother at the school has defied the ban, in a bobbly scarlet flannelette pair total with matching red Uggs. “I am running late. I even forgot to do my untrue teeth in.” Hmm. This lady was suspiciously co-ordinated (and wearing earrings) for the waiting photographers at the school gate. Even whether she did keep her mouth closed for the pictures.
We’ve all been late for school and we’ve all left the house looking a mess. But whether you wouldn’t let your children proceed to school in their pyjamas, or why would you let them see you doing it? I don’t care what anyone else thinks of me on the school run,but I carry out care what I think of myself. Leaving the house in still-warm pyjamas is a sign that something isn’t right.
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Source: theguardian.com