How much is too much?

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A couple of weeks ago while I was dropping the girls off at school, one of the other mum’s was having problems with her daughter. Her daughter was clinging to her leg sobbing, saying she didn’t want her mum to leave her and wanted her to stay at school with her. Usually this little girl (she’s only 5 or 6) is outgoing and perky and it’s unusual to see her quite that upset. This went on for almost the whole week and her mother couldn’t get her daughter to explain what the sudden problem was.

Last week, her daughter finally confided in her mother, telling her that one of the boys in her class kept telling her she had “no boobs” (boobs being the word I’m using and not the word the boy was using) and that she was flat chested and was constantly being mean to her. Since these kid are only 6 and under – the school is only small and doesn’t have any classes above that age group) we were surprised that this kind of thing was being said. When her mother spoke to the teacher, the excuse for the boys behaviour was that he was a Special Needs child and didn’t interact or socialise well with other childen.

Now, I’ve got nothing against kids mingling together, no matter what, but surely there are occasions when a child should not be mixing with children who don’t have special needs? At such a young age, I would think he would be better off in a school that is actually trained to deal with children with special needs or circumstances – in my view that’s better for the child and the school.

The same boy told the same girl to F-off the next morning in the playground and her mother spoke to the school once again. She was told this time that the boy didn’t understand that swearing wasn’t right and that he didn’t cope well in exchanges with other children. . .

One has to ask, with all the PC rubbish going to such extremes, are children who need special attention being put into mainstream schools in the fear of the local council/school etc being accused of discriminating? The children at the school are 6 and under (as I’ve stated) at a point in life where they are easily swayed by the actions of others and, while I guess this child’s parents want him to be in a mainstream school, surely the children already there deserve the opportunity to go to school and not be abused by a child who “knows no better”. Wouldn’t it make more sense for this child to be given the education he needs by people trained specifically for the task instead of normal teachers muddling through and other children’s school experience being marred?

Or maybe that’s just me . . .