Renovations and Repayments.

AlexLK

smallholdingsister wrote: »

Our school encourages students to share their aspirations. Nothing wrong with that at any age.

I shamed my mum as a 4 y.o. by responding to
"And what does your father do?" With
"He makes sugar cubes"

He is actually a computer engineer but I had been impressed with his home made bunk bed mattresses that had giant foam cubes cut out of them...

:rotfl:

I think you teach at a senior level though?

Apparently, this is an ongoing thing with the lady teacher as she's exploring 'the self and world around us' with KS1. Now it's been explained, I do understand why a little more.

smallholdingsister

I teach 11-16s but I do think its a valid question.

PrincessLou

AlexLK wrote: »

School for the initial years is about progression onto the next stage of schooling, whatever that maybe for each child. My son has only gone to the school he has because we thought he'd settle there more quickly than going somewhere else. He will be staying there for a couple of years before moving on.

Hi Alex,

Even though this is my first comment on your diary, I have been reading for the past couple of months.

However, I was just wondering, in regards to the above quote, why you have enrolled your son in a school but will move him to a different school in a couple of years? Why didn't you just enrol him in the school you intend him to go to from the start? Sorry if this has already been discussed, but I've only been reading for a couple of months

AlexLK

smallholdingsister wrote: »

I teach 11-16s but I do think its a valid question.

I don't think it's something that needs to be discussed in school. However, I know I need to stop over analysing what is taught there. Mrs K isn't happy about the letter I sent into school whilst she was away and says I need to find something else to do.

PrincessLou wrote: »

Hi Alex,

Even though this is my first comment on your diary, I have been reading for the past couple of months.

However, I was just wondering, in regards to the above quote, why you have enrolled your son in a school but will move him to a different school in a couple of years? Why didn't you just enrol him in the school you intend him to go to from the start? Sorry if this has already been discussed, but I've only been reading for a couple of months

We've sent him to the local village school for the first couple of years because he was very worried about school and it's close to our house so he can come home for lunch and hopefully make a few local friends.

He will be moved to the other school because I don't want him going to senior school aged 11 (I think it's too early) and because the other school offers a lot more in the way of subjects taught by specialists and ECs.

AlexLK

The plan was to visit Bolsover Castle today, which I was quite looking forward too. However, it seems my son has caught whatever cold / flu is going around at the moment. Mrs K has gone out shopping with one of her friends to spend some money and is going out for a meal with more friends this evening. Sometimes I really do think I'm wasting my time trying to be more sensible with money.

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Hello,

Do bear in mind that a lot has changed since you were at school. Even if bad language was never heard at your alma mater when you were there, I would lay money that it is heard on a regular basis now. In the same way that we didn't hear the f word on TV twenty years ago, whereas now we don't even notice it.

FlacosFloozie

Sorry little K's poorly, hope he feels better soon. Bolsover castle will still be there and he'll have a great day.

AlexLK

Secret_Saving_Squirrel wrote: »

Hello,

Do bear in mind that a lot has changed since you were at school. Even if bad language was never heard at your alma mater when you were there, I would lay money that it is heard on a regular basis now. In the same way that we didn't hear the f word on TV twenty years ago, whereas now we don't even notice it.

Yes, I would be very surprised to hear a child swearing at an adult there.

I'm sure I wasn't the only one taught not to use bad language in front of children, my elders and women?

FlacosFloozie wrote: »

Sorry little K's poorly, hope he feels better soon. Bolsover castle will still be there and he'll have a great day.

I hope he feels better soon, too. We've had a quiet day today, went to my cousin's for a few hours and watched a film which was a change. Had a week off the Saturday morning curriculum, as he didn't really seem in the right frame of mind for learning.

We'll still go to the castle but it'll be next weekend at the earliest as my wife wants to come as well. Fortunately, today was going to be a surprise, so he wasn't disappointed.

cazmanian_minx

Well, judging by the reports coming from my school friends, who are now of an age where they're starting to have pre-teens in boarding schools, the more you pay in school fees these days, the more sex, drugs and alcohol your child seems to be exposed to at school. I should think swearing at an adult is the least of the staff's worries in most public schools today.

AlexLK

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

Well, judging by the reports coming from my school friends, who are now of an age where they're starting to have pre-teens in boarding schools, the more you pay in school fees these days, the more sex, drugs and alcohol your child seems to be exposed to at school. I should think swearing at an adult is the least of the staff's worries in most public schools today.

Well, I remember drinking alcohol and smoking but I wasn't disrespectful to adults. A pity I cannot remember drugs or sex being freely available until university, though. Perhaps I'm looking back at school through rose-tinted spectacles and through my own experiences of not being disrespectful lest news got back to my father.

I suppose I was less bothered about what the child said and more about the fact his parents thought it was not a particularly bad thing to do.