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Maypole
By ella | August 6, 2007
After weeks (months?) of rain, flooding and feeling like it was mid-winter the weather finally looked kindly upon us for our midsummer village celebrations.
I so wanted my children to be part of this but they were “weren’t allowed to” because they don’t attend school here. It’s just another childhood tradition my children won’t get to experience because they are not at school.
Never mind that my son said “I’m not doing that, it’s dancing round a pole holding girls’ ribbons”. He has much more sense than me.
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I have to go with your son on this one…It looks pretty girly, even for me. Even so, doesn’t seem right to exclude anyone from a town celebration if they reside in that town, regardless of where they go to school.
I agree but they practiced it at school. Village children who are privately educated were excluded too so we weren’t being picked on.