Schools.....

Each Friday I go to the school to help Kailyn's teacher make copies. I do this because I know how difficult it is to keep up with just two children, let alone 24. And if I have time I like to eat lunch with Kailyn while I am there. Emily enjoys it as well and it gives me a chance to look around and see what is going on at the school.

Well I have began to notice a lot of things that have changed since I was in school. When I was in school the teachers sat with their class during lunch, right at the top of the table and supervised their own class. Now the teachers take off to their own little lunch area and the lunch room is supervised by two women. And unlike when I was in school, the children are supposed to sit down, eat their food, be quiet, be still, it is like being in a monostary or something. No wonder my daughter started getting stomach aches and not wanting to go to school! And these women....they remind me very much of the wicked stepmother from Cinderella. Now, don't get me wrong, they may be very nice people outside of this environment. But in the lunch room they are always yelling, and screaming, and telling these children that they are not allowed to speak. As if it isn't bad enough that the children must remain silent in their classrooms all morning long, which is needed for learning and completely understandable...now they have to be silent during lunch as well?
What has happened to the schools?!?!?!