The Happiest Days of our Lives?
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The Happiest Days of our Lives?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... llies.html
The received wisdom is that one should choose a school where DC will be happy (happiness then being in the eye of the beholder).
Article from the Daily Mail (no I don't read it , honest ) suggests that three quarters of people would disagree with the notion that school represents the best days of our lives. PE lessons and bullying were the main bugbears.
A particularly good teacher was the most common happy memory.
Given that they won't be particularly happy anyhow, is that not an argument for choosing the best academic school one can find for DC and letting them get on with it?
The received wisdom is that one should choose a school where DC will be happy (happiness then being in the eye of the beholder).
Article from the Daily Mail (no I don't read it , honest ) suggests that three quarters of people would disagree with the notion that school represents the best days of our lives. PE lessons and bullying were the main bugbears.
A particularly good teacher was the most common happy memory.
Given that they won't be particularly happy anyhow, is that not an argument for choosing the best academic school one can find for DC and letting them get on with it?
Exams are formidable for the best prepared. The greatest fool may ask what the wisest man cannot answer.
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Still have nighmares now about PE lessons and the dreaded words '800 metres' I have never been sporty and my PE teacher could make no allowances for this at all and was a complete harridan who terrorised those of us who were not 100% commited to sport. I just prefer not to think about these lessons when I reflect on my schooldays.
Anyone remember being 'picked' for p.e? And I say picked very loosely as I was one of the ones left until last. Then it was much more a case of "um...I suppose I'll have you then."
School was a cool place to be if you were sporty. I was not. You were seriously uncool if you were musical/intelligent.
GS was much better. Intelligence was okay there - but by that time I was distinctly average amongst all the other bright girls. I suppose I never did have my chance to be cool!
School was a cool place to be if you were sporty. I was not. You were seriously uncool if you were musical/intelligent.
GS was much better. Intelligence was okay there - but by that time I was distinctly average amongst all the other bright girls. I suppose I never did have my chance to be cool!
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The two local comps set for P.E. The head said that it was specifically to avoid putting people off exercise for life by bad experience in P.E lessons.
Whoever coined the "schooldays are the best days" phrase I think was probably referring to childhood really, which if from a happy home, is a time of relative lack of responsibilities.
Adulthood certainly has an excess of responsibilities!
Whoever coined the "schooldays are the best days" phrase I think was probably referring to childhood really, which if from a happy home, is a time of relative lack of responsibilities.
Adulthood certainly has an excess of responsibilities!