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February 05, 2006
Still Standing… just…
At the beginning of the week there was a fight NOT even outside the school gates but outside the classroom door and no this wasn’t a bunch of ten year olds getting all uptight about a football match, this was a couple of mothers arguing over 50 quid. They knocked each other to the floor and one father had to step in and stop a buggy being tipped over, shielding the kid’s eyes from what her mother was up to.
Naturally by 3.15 the arch enemies were best mates again but unfortunately it was all not so easily forgotten by my daughter, as soon as she got home two of her Sylvanian Families mummies started beating each other up and the baby rabbit had to call the police. There went another small fragment of innocence.
On Thursday we got a letter sent home informing us that the morning before a couple of blokes had tried to snatch some kids from outside the school gates, fortunately the girls knew exactly what to do and ran in to tell a teacher by which time the men had disappeared.
We now have police presence at the school gates, morning and evening. Thankfully Littleone is still innocent enough to think that this is quite cool.
To top it all off, on Monday three kids in the Reception class were sent home with chicken pox by Thursday twenty-six kids in Year one were absent with a stomach bug from hell.
Littleone is lucky enough to have escaped with just a snotty nose. Please let it stay this way.
And there was I thinking that I didn’t have enough patience for home schooling.
Posted by purple elephant at February 5, 2006 08:21 AM