You might have thought that by remembering the poster board for the school project, the clean gym clothes, the musical instrument and the individually wrapped homemade bake sale goodies (free of the twelve most common allergens), you had this week covered. But no: Here comes Decade Day, Twin Day, Non-Problematic Historical Figure Day and Random Class Color Day, in which your kid gets assigned a new shade every year. (Looking at you, chartreuse.
) That’s right, it’s spirit week, and if you have multiple children in different classes or schools, you may have to petition a miracle from the Holy Spirit itself in order to make it all the way to Friday. Here, the funny parents of X (formerly Twitter) share their true feelings about these labor-intensive festivities. Advertisement Hey parents, who's up for using cancel culture to get rid of baby PJs with a million snaps and school spirit week? — Raw Motherhood (@MetteAngerhofer) January 8, 2022 My kids teacher just sent home the spirit day schedule for the LAST THREE WEEKS OF SCHOOL thoughts and prayers during this difficult time — Mommeh Dearest (@mommeh_dearest) May 20, 2024 Do you want to hear my grumpiest parent take? Instead of doing “crazy hair day” and “100th day of school” and whatever million other new “spirit days” schools have come up with, they should just let kids do pyjama day twice a month.
Kids love it, way less work for parents. — Anne Thériault (@anne_theriault) February 21, 2024 good morning.
