No longer say "
Mother's Day
" or "
Father's Day
", but "
Parents' Day
", or even "
Day of the people we love
".
The traditional celebrations, which take place this year on May 29 and June 18 respectively, are increasingly being replaced by alternative holidays more suitable, say the teachers concerned, for children who have no father or mother.
The initiative does not come from the National Education, it is at the discretion of the classes or schools which choose which festival to observe.
Lucile Estrade, who has been teaching for five years in Corbeil-Essonnes (91), decided during her first year of work to replace Father's Day with
"the day of the people we love"
after the death of a student's father, five days before the event.
“
It was unimaginable to make a gift for fathers next to this newly orphaned little boy.
So I looked for an alternative,”
she says.
Even if it means choosing a date
“between the two traditional festivals”
and making…
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