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Teachers! Leave Those Kids Alone!
From being a pupil, to wanting to be a teacher and then not
I have called myself a ‘rock chick’ many times, since songs by Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Queen, Guns ’n Roses, and other rock bands always get me singing along, and feel on top of the world.
The song ‘Another Brick In The Wall’ inspired this post.
My own school days
When we came to the Netherlands and my children went to school, I had to adjust to how different their school days were from mine when I was a kid.
They went to school five days a week, as did I, but there the similarities stopped. Their school days started at 8.30 am and ended at 3.45 pm, whereas mine started at 7 am and ended at 2 pm. They had the afternoon off on Wednesday, which I never had. They had no extracurricular sport in the afternoons, while I did.
Except for 1.5 years in my high school career when we lived close enough to school for me to cycle there, either my mother or father always brought us to school by car. Here in the Netherlands, my children went to school either by public transport or on the bicycle.
Something I also had to get used to was that the teachers over here were called by their first…
