What are we doing with our schools in the city? Leaving this heart at Jen's kids' school I feel like I'm looking at a prison. All this 8m high green fencing. Everywhere. It's so oppressive. Made worse, for sure, at night with everything also padlocked. And my kids' school is just the same. Big high fences on top of a big high brick wall.
Are we trying to keep them in or trying to keep them out?
Surely there are other ways of keeping our children safe at school?
Enjoyed talking to our wonderful social worker friends tonight. They are my heroes. They do such an amazing job with extremely challenging people and in very difficult circumstances often.
Heard from him how his work with kids in primary schools is going. Very exciting to hear that professionals from the borough's mental health team are intervening in troubled kids lives at this crucial cross over time of year 6.
We all hear on Monday what new schools our intrepid year 6s will go to. Think Jen's, like ours, is quite a safe bet - we've both chosen our nearest school. But at least with ours the catchment area is so tiny that it is possible Mr M won't get in. Tra la. Poor boy was crying tonight as he contemplated that possibility. He just can't imagine going anywhere else, mostly because he has no idea where any other school is and thinks he'll get lost on the way. Bless
Maybe a little orange heart will bring some cheer to the Monday morning school run? In preparation for the hard decisions that lie ahead for families who don't get their first choice.
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