A French Education
This week I felt the full force of the French educational system. Olivia had some homework about the origins of the French flag, Marianne and other French national symbols.
If I had been a contestant on ‘Who wants to be a millionaire’ I would have been disqualified. Not only did I have to phone a friend, I had to look online (for hours), ask my husband and look in an encyclopedia. And even after all that we apparently got some of it wrong.
On the way home from school last night Olivia was telling me about some things they had learnt at school about our village. I added some knowledge of my own.
“Mummy,” she said looking at me with a mixture of impatience and pity. “I really don’t think you know more than my teacher. He is a teacher after all.”
Does he knw that pink is the new black? That Laura Mercier has just launched a new water soluble all-in-one cleanser and toner? I don’t think so.
This is a man who told them last week that Father Christmas doesn’t exist. Clearly he knows nothing at all.
Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2008
16 Feb 2008 helena
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Hi Miranda
No, I didn’t know, how horrible. I will see if I can get it taken off. Thanks.
Hx
What does this teacher know? I am 57 and still harbor hope for Father Christmas. He’ll never leave that luxury European Tour if you don’t believe in him!
Of course Father Christmas exists! I shall see that a copy of Miracle on 34th Street is under your Christmas tree this year.
I am an atheist but I believe in Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy and family Sunday dinners and singing carols at Christmas and the Easter bunny because I believe in the family and the human spirit and one way of keeping all of that going is to bide by tradition. That is my religion. I would have lynched the teacher how dare he, quel con! Excuse my French!
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