Small scholastic crisis!
Episode 1. Catrin comes home from school at lunchtime saying that her English teacher has said that she is very cross with her, that nobody is pleased with her, that she is not making progress and that she will never learn to speak French. (Remember we only have Catrin's report of this!)
Episode 2. Lunchtime spent explaining to Catrin that this is a tactic some teachers use to encourage you to prove them wrong - and also spent encouraging her to face the teacher when she has English again that same afternoon.
Episode 3. Pat delivers Catrin and Gwilym to school after lunch and the headmistress tells Pat that we need to meet up to discuss Catrin. She'll arrange an appointment.
Episode 4. Catrin comes home explaining that she didn't go to English this afternoon because nobody came to collect her.
It's funny - it's only a blip, and writing about it helps you to see that, but it's these things that make you lose sleep as you ponder the misery of boarding schools, the option of the international schools or of home education - or of ploughing on, knowing that the teacher isn't right in what she says. Catrin will learn. She's not been here 3 months yet. We don't know yet what the headmistress will say, of course.
Episode 2. Lunchtime spent explaining to Catrin that this is a tactic some teachers use to encourage you to prove them wrong - and also spent encouraging her to face the teacher when she has English again that same afternoon.
Episode 3. Pat delivers Catrin and Gwilym to school after lunch and the headmistress tells Pat that we need to meet up to discuss Catrin. She'll arrange an appointment.
Episode 4. Catrin comes home explaining that she didn't go to English this afternoon because nobody came to collect her.
It's funny - it's only a blip, and writing about it helps you to see that, but it's these things that make you lose sleep as you ponder the misery of boarding schools, the option of the international schools or of home education - or of ploughing on, knowing that the teacher isn't right in what she says. Catrin will learn. She's not been here 3 months yet. We don't know yet what the headmistress will say, of course.
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