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To: TobagoJack who wrote (17409)	4/17/2007 10:50:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220300

TJ, be wary of British "care"-giving "teachers" of very young children. I'm sure some of them are not psycho, but I would not gamble on that too carelessly. The English have a special talent for producing psychopaths who prey on children and I think it stems from the way children are maltreated in infancy, with a strong attachment to discipline and less emphasis on love and happiness. A stiff upper lip is the primary requirement. I am not submitting that theory for a Nobel Prize as it's in first processing. During our time in London with 4 youngsters, the youngest just turning 3 not long before heading for Belgium, we gained some experience of life for littlies. I took our youngest, who is due to have her second child in July, to kindergarten. Time flies. It was not a "parents hang around" place, but being first time for her, and cautious about maniacs with my children, I sat in the car for a while, then went back in having left Melissa apparently settled enough, to find she had been crying for half an hour, or maybe it was nearly an hour. My wife had gone back to NZ to be with her dying father, leaving me for 5 weeks with the children. I enquired about the problem and the teacher blithely said "Oh, she's just getting used to it. Some children cry for weeks. We had one who cried for 3 months". Or words to that effect. It was separation anxiety, perhaps exacerbated by some unnoticed event among littlies. It was no problem as far as the teacher was concerned. A morning of wailing was par for their course. BP would have paid for expensive private schooling for the older ones, but after visiting various schools to see what they were like, we decided to bung them in with the mob at the free local state school, Sythwood [in Woking]. It was a good choice from a social point of view, which to me was the main requirement in the younger ages. They experienced the dreaded "dinner ladies" and absurd school rules such as no "Bullrush", "Ball tiggy", wrestlemania, going on the grass and other normal child behaviour and fun. But school hours were reasonably short and they had good mates. Education in RRR was gradual [to be kindly]. Fortunately, it was for only one year. The enjoyed Sythwood. The private schools would no doubt have been much better in a RRR sense, but their emphasis, which they were proud of, was "discipline", which to me looked more Dickensian than disciplinarian. Our offspring were going to do okay educationally anyway, so it's not as though RRR mattered much. The moral of the story is to beware of stern "disciplinarian" English teachers. Which is not to say I am anything but a regular Captain Bligh as far as misbehaviour is concerned, but it has to actually be harmful in some way, not rules for the sake of having rules over trivial matters. Falling over could hurt one's arm, for example. So no running. First comes lots of fun, daring and adventure. Hopefully, Ms Beverly is just what your little darling needs. No more play-way Miss Precious Ai Li. It's time to get serious. Very serious it seems. Mqurice PS: After English state school, the American-style Antwerp International School was a different and wonderful world. ais-antwerp.be Lucky escape.