Sometimes the kids at my school are a delight. Other times they are… like they were today.
Every spring we take the kids onto the field for a bit of a run. It’s not a common thing – we don’t do it as much as football and rugby – we just try to encourage cross-country as another method of keeping fit. Anyway, we get out there today and everybody starts running and it’s all going well.
Suddenly, one of the lads pulls out with a limp. He won’t let me touch him (the law is the law) so all I can do is leave him to it as I’m on my own. This is a difficult quandary when you’re teaching on your own – do you sacrifice the class for one child? There’s no real protocol for it that I know of.
We do another lap, and I return to the lad. He’s still down, but he won’t go back to the locker room to do homework or anything, so again I have to leave him. He was only a small thing, and looked a lot like me at his age. He’s not particularly studious, and isn’t top of the class when it comes to sport either. If I’m honest, I felt a little bit sorry for him.
One more lap and I return to him. Still not getting up. So by now I gather the class around and we start warming down. That is, of course, until the bell rings. At which point the entire class – including the injured boy – run back to the classroom! Bloody hell!
Nothing I can do really! Rest assured though, tonight I will be staying in for a few beers and a few games of online roulette. And I’ll have a drink on the kid with the ‘damaged leg’ – he certainly got me!
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