Myleene Klass receives strongly-worded newsletter from daughter's school headteacher: 'If you can't tweet anything nice...'
The musician sparked outrage after tweeting emails sent by mothers at her daughter's school demanding birthday money donations
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Your support makes all the difference.Myleene Klass’ call to mothers at her daughter’s private £5,000-a-term school to stop asking for birthday donations was met with a frosty reception in the playground on Friday.
“How many times this week have I been asked to comment/act/intervene/reprimand/ … do something! Mutual respect and tolerance. FBV. We actively promote them – do you?”
It continues: “I needed to get that off my chest. Now, on with the week's round up of [school] news. No more parking on zig zags. No more blocking in the neighbours. No more unicorns. And as my granny would've said, if you can't tweet anything nice, don't tweet anything at all.”
The birthday furore first started when Klass decided to share an email she received from two parents at the school last week. However, it has since been claimed that original email was over a year old.
The message asked mothers to give £10 to go towards a joint class gift of a “kindle and a desk” for their children.
She posted a screengrab of the emails alongside her own joke response.
It read: “Dear all
For Ava's birthday, she has requested a real, live Unicorn.
I will be collecting Unicorn money via her book bag, in the playground or at www.getwhatyouregivenandendthismadness.com.
(Additionally I’d like a Ferrari and Leonardo DiCaprio, so by all means, do feel obligated to contribute to this too).
If you don’t wish to, please don’t feel any pressure from the countless emails I intend to follow this up with and clog your inbox.
Love and thanks!!”
She has since admitted there were a “few hard feelings” at the school gates last week.
“My intention was to stop all these serious, money-focused exchanges and remind parents, all of us under pressure to do the very best for our children, of what birthdays should be about,” she told the Telegraph.
“Though they were old exchanges, I've received countless emails like this since.”
Klass, who launches her new lingerie line for Littlewoods this week, has since been accused of using the emails as an ill-fitting “publicity stunt”.
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