aaaarrrggghhh!

I need to vent. And it would be wrong to go bitching in the school playground, so you get it instead, soz.

Yes it's the flaming primary school. So here's the thing, Twins had been coming home from school saying that their PE bags (the same ones they've had for the past three years, proper school PE bags bought from Clarkes along with their sensible school shoes) are no longer allowed. Because they're pink. I fail to see how having a bag in school colours is likely to make my children run faster, jump higher or be better at catching a ball, but after a heated discussion with the Head on the subject, I wound my neck back in, apologised in writing, and went out to buy two new PE bags - mainly because I didn't want the girls to get hassle from their class teachers.

After buying said PE bags today, I went to pick the girls up from school. Twin 2 was in her PE kit. Our conversation went something like this:

Me: Oh, you've just had PE - how was it?
Her: Not good. The PE teacher didn't know I had a disability.
Me: Oh dear.
Her: I told him and he said we'd go somewhere else to talk about it, but we didn't.

Call me an oversensitive, pushy middle-class parent (go on, I bet all the teachers at the school do), but to me a school that prioritises the colour of PE bags above the actual well-being of a physically disabled pupil in a PE class has its priorities somewhat out of whack.

Yes, I'm livid.

On the plus side, I'm so angry that I just went for the fastest run I've done in weeks, and I did sixty seven sit ups and thirty three press ups afterwards.