Back to school day, Charlie was more anxious than the children.
Yesterday Charlie started telling the children that they didn’t need to go in on the first day and that they weren’t ready. I didn’t want to re-enforce this bizarre thought line so I stayed out of it and it’s not clear what the issue was. I think some of the children’s supplies needed naming, but that’s not really reason to keep them off school for the day. To avoid getting sucked into it, I said that I would go into the office to work. That meant Charlie would have to look after the children herself if she kept them home. Sure enough later on in the evening she seemed to have changed her tune and was prepared to take them, but she still told the children they could decide whether to go in.
So there was some confusion by the children this morning when they woke and got told they had to go to school like every other child. We eventually got them to school but after the school bell so they were late to class on their first day back. I wasn’t impressed, it’s not hard to get children to school on time.
Charlie also has this thing about Ollie being in the wrong year. I don’t understand the rational for it, he’s in the right one for his age group and is doing well. Charlie’s fixation with this issue dates back four years to a change of class when Ollie was in prep. So on the way to school, Ollie who has 2 years left is being told by Charlie that he has ‘just one more year to go’. It’s just annoying hearing this false nonsense being dished out onto the children that conflicts with what everybody else is telling them. I can’t see how it will help anyone in the future.