Figure 1.--The schools try to stimulte an interest in current events. Teachers will bring cuurent events into clss discussions. The children are encouraged to watch the nightly news affer dinner in the evening. And newspapers and magaines are available in the library and spots around the school. |
Teachers commonly bring current events into the classroom. The teachers may mention current events as they pertain to a subject that the children are studying. There are resulting class discussions. This is probably most common in history and gegraphy, but current events can pertain to many other sujects. Often the children will bring up current events when they ask questions in class. Some children will read magazines and newspapers in the library or commons rooms. The children do not get to watch much television at school, but often they are encouraged to watch the news in the evening after dinner. Generally speaking there is a conservative orientation at the schools. Many teachers are not nearly as affluent as the families from which the teachers come. So the schools are really right-wing bastions in the same way that some state schools are left-wing bastions. Good teachers will attempt to bring out the various views on an issue.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Poll tax would go;
Living standards going up,
Inflation would be low.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Maggie would resign;
And if I could take over,
That would be fine.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Pollution would go:
No more aerosols,
Mr Ozone having no foe.
Paul Orchard, Junior Wyvern (Queen's College Junior School), 1989-90.
In Christian aid Week we had a starvation lunch and a disco. P.S. We sent a cheque to Christian aid for £45.36. - Editor
Gavin Walker, 11.8, The Bramcote Magazine, Autumn 1978
Starving, lying in their beds. A cramped hospital. People awaiting examination. In a ward, children crying through pain, discomfort, anxiety and starvation.
Outside, the sun blazing down. Its rays gleeming onto the crumb;y earth, turned to a sandy colour because of the heat. A child, outside her hut, with her bowl, waiting for scraps. The flies buzzing round her, infecting her wounds. Deep gashes, grazes, bruises, cuts, bullet holes on her body. The red flesh, with her brown skin surrounding it.
As the civil war goes on, the bombing and explosions pierce your ears. Their loud noises ringing through the meek little villages. Children crying from pain and sorrow. Women carrying pots on their heads, full of food for the hospital. How glad I am that I do not live there.
Susy McDougall, 11 years, 10 months, Surge (Beeston Hall), Autumn 1988.
Starving little children
Sitting in the dirt
No one to look after them
Unhappy, unalert.
They eat the stale rice
Which is given once a day,
Drink the stagnant water
Nothing but dismay.
A little boy all alone
Left there just to cry
Everyone ignoring him,
He has nothing to do but die.
Beaudesert Park Magazine, Autumn 1978.
