It’s been a wet one today. Torrents of rain. Definitely a two coat day. Great rhubarb weather.
It’s been torrent of school emails as well. One instructing parents about what happens if a child is late to school. Another email confirming that non uniform days had been cancelled due to inappropriate behaviour. Then an email instructing pupils that no jewellery (except an ear stud) is appropriate in a school setting. That’s on top of emails earlier about the length of skirts and inappropriate gym kit. Then I hear someone from the Government talk about the need for longer school hours and greater discipline.
Some parents may love the sound of this. This parent is shaking his head.
With all that’s gone on in the world over the last couple of years, with the current dreadful news, aren’t our youngsters already having to cope with more than enough stress. Let’s not have school add to that….
A Dad trying to cope with the loss of his Partner and becoming a single parent. 
Wow. That is a lot of rain-and quite a bombardment from the school. Obviously, we must be rules, but this seems excessive and poorly timed considering all the stress kids have faced.
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Yes to rules but not too many at the wrong time. 🙏
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I think it’s about time there was a torrent of good news! Removing some of the stress.
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Good news on stream would do us all so much good
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What are they doing in that Government? It never seems to get better. The same day the Government praised the Russian people for protesting Putin, they tried to get a bill through that would mean people in the UK, couldn’t protest! The Trump Government were just horrible, the Australia Government are all wannabes and the UK Tories, are really confusing, lol
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We are rapidly becoming a failing state.
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This reads like a third world country!
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It so does
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😱
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Rain here too. All day yesterday. This morning I thought I heard something just outside the back door and it was rain on the lean-to.
As for school, I totally agree: Let’s not have what the school says add to the torrents of stress of what the world says. I want to keep my head, while all around…
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if—
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I was reading that poem yesterday. Time to remember to let children have a childhood
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Completely agree. My son just left a bad school with a massive focus on ‘discipline’, and shouty teachers, and joined a school where staff and pupils behave with mutual respect. Huge difference.
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I’m so pleased he found that
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I’m not allowed to comment about school🤐
SoCal is expecting rain on Thor’sDay or FriedDay. Makes sense since it was humidity in the teens and temperatures in the 80s (28-29 C) on MoonDay & Toad’sDay🙄🤦🏼♀️ Wren’sDay was Transition day🤪
It’s no wonder I’ve gone slightly madder with the yo-yo weather 🤪
💌💌💌💌
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Just sayimg, I thought that was Freya’s day.
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Quiet possible! By the end of the week my brain is so Fried I don’t know what year it is🤪😂
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Lol.
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Why not. You let rip…..
That weather is mad ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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I though this was 2022, not 1722.
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Going back in time
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Totally agree!
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Thank you
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I have said it before and I will most likely say it again until Hawklad is done with the system; your school system is broken. Broken. I am not sure what uniforms and skirt lengths have to do with children learning but I am sure that there is some great strategy at work here that I just am unable to see. Break free from the school and let Hawklad soar in the areas he is able to while studying what he has to. I know easier said than done. Hugs to you both. 🙂
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Hugs to you my friend. 😊 if we could navigate the exam problem, then letting him be free of school wou,d be perfect.
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🤗😊
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I agree. The timing is poor. I was in boarding school in England during the Cuban missile crisis and I remember the anxiety. Current situation is similar. Why pile on more stress?
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Seems to be a push to make adults of our children
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Common sense is dead hon.
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The return to Victorian times…
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OMG, I thought the same: Does the world have no other problems?
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Apparently not enough…
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🙏
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That’s slot of rain. Not good. Mud is just at nasty this time a year.
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It’s not much fun.
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I can understand. Well I hope you stay safe if it keeps hsppening❤️
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What a shame. I’m all for expectations; however, this is excessive. What about communication from the school sharing the praise and good news? May the sun shine soon and your hope grow with better weather. ❤️💛💚🙏🏻
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They just seem to have forgotten that side of things. ❤️❤️
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