![]() ![]() Fascinating, now boredom is being seen as a positive thing in children’s lives because they have to search for and discover their own creative ways of alleviating it. Stories of several head teachers of high achieving (and thus high demanding) schools giving parents advice to let the children engage for less time on school-work and to learn life skills and be creative instead. It all sounds very refreshing and appropriate to me. ![]() Reports of children beginning to work at their own pace with the lessons online, of children feeling less stressed without the demands made upon them at school. Many parents, according to the media, are commenting on the way that their children have changed whilst out of the conventional schooling system that they are all so accustomed to. ![]() Surely such recognition encourages us to look upon situations afresh and re-evaluate systems and principles which we have, at times, followed blindly for lack of an alternative. Things about our lives, about ourselves, things about our friends and families too. ![]() I would rather Summerhill produced a happy street sweeper than a neurotic Prime Minister” A S Neill, pioneering funder of Summerhill SchoolĪ lot of things are emerging during this lock-down period that people had not really noticed before. ![]()
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