In these days of measurable targets, do schools set aims, objectives, etc for parents’ evenings? What do they hope to achieve?
I imagine - I hope - that they want the parents to leave feeling informed, reassured, possibly even inspired.
I guess they don’t want them to come away from the meeting with the image in their [...]
Archive for October, 2008
I’m afraid to go shopping nowadays.
Whenever I walk down the streets of one of East Lothian’s little towns, I find that another familiar, valued local business has disappeared. Right now they seem to be dropping like flies - it’s a bit that that story of the plague village where each day there were a couple [...]
Where do you keep your money? Maybe not the bank, in these interesting times… Where do you keep money in your house?
Yesterday, I had to lay my hands on a reasonable sum of cash for someone who would be coming to the door in a short time, and could not be put off (or paid [...]
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