[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Maybe they were shown pictures and they just never told me, although I think my daughter probably would have Maybe it is just different over there, I don't think I've ever met any of the teachers OHs at school functions either. One of my brothers is a teacher actually and his wife was hired by his school to teach a drama class, there was fierce whisperings and questions being asked by the students to know if my sister in law was his wife

...yeah it’s different types of schools and areas I think as well, some of our local schools are very ‘family’ and staff and parents can know each other socially...others are not so much, but we’ve always had partners involved in most school social things and children will always just come right out and ask......I know one friend/colleague in particular a few years ago and it was particularly noticeable as well because there were 3 staff weddings close together that summer ...but his was the only one that wasn’t a heterosexual wedding ...and he wasn’t allowed to show his photographs to his class...he just isn’t the sort of person who would ever raise it as ‘an issue’ either...but it obviously did it upset him...