The new school year
A young mum was telling me of her two children's first-day experience last year…
Her 8-year-old daughter had gone to school on the first day where her teacher gave her the instructions, "I will be sending home a class newsletter each week and I want you to read ‘everything on the page'. Her thoughts were, ' I cannot read, I had better not come back tomorrow".
Her 10-year-old brother was told that he had to 'write everything in neat handwriting from day one, and was not to make any spelling