yep welcome spit and any other bodily fluids to be rubbed on own kids face but Heaven forbid their hands be decorated with art which represents cultural diversity then be easily be cleaned off by toothpaste..
The issue was that it wasn't easily cleaned off.....but I know you haven't been paying any attention whatsoever, you just want to come here and defend the practice of henna tattoos even though that's entirely irrelevant to this conversation.
So your assumption is that everyone would know how to take that nonsense off? You should probably consider that maybe you have more experience with trying to remove semi-permanent ink doodles than the average person. Also, while you might like the doodles, others might be annoyed by them. A child writing on walls with crayons probably thinks it looks awesome too, doesn't mean that it won't annoy adults. This is really no different.
Again....you don't think that having to do that is something that would piss off a parent? I mean maybe not a parent that is used to semi-permanent doodles, but it's going to annoy a parent that hasn't had to deal with henna doodles before. A simple permission slip, exactly like the one I posted earlier would have prevented this entire problem. Unfortunately the school was incompetent and so you have this mess.
Also, if you paid any attention to the complaints, she was mad that she was struggling to remove the stains, if it was an easily removable ink that just looked like the semi-permanent henna dye, odds are no one would care. It's a whole different story when you have a hard time removing the doodles.
what mess? floral design in someone's hands which can easily be removed by toothpaste which everyone has at their homes?
The mess being the pissed off parent. I know to you the semi-permanent doodles might be considered easily removable but the complaint was that it wasn't coming off. I know your only interest in this conversation is defending the doodles, but it's not necessary. No one is bashing your doodles, they are fine, but they should have used a proper permission slip explaining what they were going to do and requiring a parental signature before they started staining people's skin. Again, for the thousandth time, there's nothing wrong with your doodles. This isn't anything related to that.
They should stop teaching kids culture in school - ban all art and paints and anything that might offend super PC moms as we dont want to make parents look uptight!!! How parents look is by far the most important thing afterall
I'm missing the point of all this as well. I read thru the first 4 pages and still don't understand the point.
Oh master yoda, you have missed that I am responding to comments about making parents uncomfortable by portraying them as uptight - please understand context master or you look like a padiwan. Seriously - I can understand how the mom would be upset her kid had markings on her child when she got home from school. But. 1. It's a parents responsibility to stay involved and read the freaking emails a school sends out. If she didn't know what henna was, take the effing 15 seconds to google it. That's why they send an email. Should the school explain what henna is because they should just assume that most parents are cultural neantherals? Probably. But at the end of the day, oh rightegous conservative, it is the parents responsibility to know what is happening in their child's life, or does that just apply to poor black people? 2. Her going to the media with such ignorance is just really really sad. If you are going to complain, at least get your facts right. The whole point of multiculturalism is to prevent the kind of narrowmindedness this women is demonstrating beautifully. The irony.
People need to just agree to disagree at this point. There seem to be some fundamental differences of thought here and neither side is getting through to the other. Bottom line. Parents have the right to be concerned about their child, their world revolves around them...but this lady was being an attention whoring **** that was trying to instigate something and playing into the whole mythical "war on christmas/christianity" people try to play up. Im sure she cares for her daughter, but she could have handled it so many other ways, as fchowd and others have pointed out.
So you are saying eggs are religious? You know what else is used in many Hindu ceremonies? Milk. Does that mean Milk should be taken out of schools along with Eggs? It's the same with Henna/Mehndi. It's just a form of body art for the hands and feet - nothing more. The fact it is used to dress up brides is the same as putting on make-up. Please stop trying to do whatever it is you are doing.
I know you flunked out of ChemE but seriously let me say it again. NEVER put baking soda and lemon in your skin. It is really bad mmkay? I don't GAF what Pinterest and Facebook says. Especially on a little kid.
Why do you keep assuming what the email said? If I received an email stating my kid would be involved in a multicultural day that would involve the use of henna, I wouldn't think much about it. If the email stated they would be applying henna ink to my kids skin, I would be much more concerned. I personally would not have made this a news worthy issue or bring up religious concerns, but I would address the incompetence of any teacher thinking it is ok to apply anything to my kids skin that is not immediately removable with a little soap and water.
