Day 80 - 2:35pm, 21 March 2019
I have taken the day off work to go on youngest's school trip. It is a trip to Dynamic Earth, which I have been to many times, and includes a weather workshop that I did with my eldest when he was at this stage of schooling. I think I know, therefore, what I am letting myself in for.
Turns out I don't. There are three parent helpers and we each have a group of children assigned to us to be responsible for throughout the day. We are staying as one big group, so in theory it should be simple, a case of counting heads every so often. Instead, I feel like I am a bouncer on high alert. Just a small group of boys make things difficult, but they are so very good at it. It is utterly exhausting, and they aren't even in my group.
Then I see what one of them has for his lunch, a family-sized bag of Doritos, and suddenly it is clear, it is not just their fault. There are wider social issues at play, which we as a society must tackle, rather than blame the individuals, who are as much victims as the rest of the class are.
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