[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Go England?

[Mary Jennings]

David reasoned:

>It's the second half of summer term, SATs and other exams are over,
>and a teacher's mind turns desperately to ways of filling in the time
>before the summer hols...
>
>Seriously, how much of the morning is eaten into by this?  If they
>manage to register in half-time and scrap assembly, won't it be half
>an hour at most?

I know it won't bite into much school time; it's the principle of it all 
that I have a problem with.  The school accommodating the game within school 
time (as you say, it's for less than an hour in school time) is fine, but 
it's the fact that the school has had to do this so that dozens of students 
aren't off for the day.  Heck, Beth is in reception class and is nowhere 
near sitting exams yet! :)  I just think that in the day and age of video 
recorders that the score can be announced in class at the end of the game, 
and the kids can go home after school and watch it on video.  Or on a late 
edition of Match of the Day or whatever the ITV one is called.  Goodness 
knows there's enough footie on the Idiot Box these days, no? ;)

The kids get to choose whether they watch the game or do an activity in 
class.  I have no idea what Beth will do...it will depend on what her 
friends want to do.  She's like me; she can take sport or leave it.  She'll 
cheer along with everybody else, but probably won't know why.  Ah, the 
innocence of a 5-year-old.

>I think James' secondary school is opening the breakfast bar early so
>they can watch the whole match.

This is a good idea.  Unfortunately our school doesn't have a breakfast 
club, so students can only be dropped off from 8:30 am onwards.

>In 1974, we were allowed to cut lessons to watch general election
>results coming in - but then, our teachers may have been under the
>illusion that that was an educational exercise rather than the
>sportive one it truly was.

Can I be really crass and ask what grade you were in?  I'm curious as to 
whether it was primary or secondary school.  Now, how many of you actually 
*did* watch the election results...and was there cricket on at the same 
time, by chance? ;)  Come to think of it, why were the results coming in 
during school time rather than in the evening?  And did Peter Snow have his 
blessed Swing-o-metre back then already?

Mary Ann
(who's glad she helps out in Beth's class on Thursdays!)

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