You may recall me mentioning perspective in a previous post. Well, let me tell you, that perspective is now well and truly shot to shit.
Things have conspired against me. The reasons for my sullied perspective are as follows:
- My laptop is broken. One moment it was fine and then… screen smashed. That’ll make this twunting home schooling so much more fun. Not.
- My knee is broken. After eleven weeks of holding out and me feeling all young and energetic and superhuman during the daily trots with the kids, it is clicking like a bastard. It’s about to fall off. I know it.
- Little Seymour Number Two is broken. She is scared of the night time, and I am worried for her mental health.
- My children have lost the plot. They keep disappearing from “lessons”, and I realise, after ten minutes, that I have completed Boy’s spelling quiz alone, and Mini’s teacher has taught only me how to do column addition.
- Little Seymour is running out of books to read, prompting late night raids to local phone box book swap libraries (yes, there are such things), and a compulsion to check every giveaway box we come across on people’s driveways.
And now, even though shops and zoos and theme parks and golf courses and all sorts of other places are opening, and even mass protests are allowed, schools are set to remain closed FOREVER.
Don’t get me wrong. I have benefited from having the kids at home. It has been useful and interesting. I am equipped and willing. Sure, the Corona virus needed containing. But the kids need school too! It is not just the “vulnerable” ones – my own children are now vulnerable to going completely and utterly deranged through lack of social interaction.
These are unprecedented times, but as the “lockdown” appears to ease, why are we not prioritising the kids, rather than zoos and football matches? If parents want to, they can keep their kids at home without penalty, but surely, it is time to try to move forward for those that feel able. Mobile classrooms would help – surely a government that is prepared to pay the nation’s wages can afford to supply these? It would surely be cheaper in the long run, and it would provide work.
I am cross. Can you tell?
#losingperspectivewhilstappreciatingiamfortunateisuppose
(And the neighbour’s chickens ate my vegetable plot.)
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