School bans children from calling their classmates “Best Friend”

Parents are outraged after a preschool in Massachusetts banned children from using the term “best friend.”  Mum Christine Hartwell told Boston 25 News that her four-year-old daughter Julia came home upset after her teacher at Pentucket Workshop Preschool in Georgetown, Massachusetts told her she

couldn’t refer to any of her classmates as her “best friends.” “When I asked her what was wrong she said she was really sad about what her teacher did that day,” her mum recalled. According to Hartwell, Julia said her teacher had told her she couldn’t call someone her best friend – and now Julia was afraid to call anyone her best friend.  READ MORE