I must reply to your Media Watch item on a school banning pupils giving Christmas cards (News, 22 November). A couple of years ago our pre-school looked at what cards meant both to the child and to the environment. We found that while this was a good opportunity to give and share, some children were excluded from this practice for a variety of reasons. We also discussed the implications for a child's emerging skills in sitting and writing their name or mark-making on 30 cards. We thought we were being hypocritical to promote recycling and then receive cards that wasted a lot of paper.
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