Who says kids are apathetic these days? They’re obviously being taught some damn good civic values in Tassie’s schools!
It warms the cockles of my heart to hear this mob cheer, and to see how well my boss revs them up! [And, by the way, as a former school teacher, Christine was careful to make sure that the kids were there on their lunch-break, not wagging!]
Please pass this around to anyone you think might be getting disheartened about the Pulp Mill. If anyone can stop it, these kids can.
Hi Christine,
“They’re obviously being taught some damn good civic values in Tassie’s schools!”
hmm are they? or is it just a really nice chance to get out and vent some frustration at adults in authority in general. Probably a good bit of that would be my guess. How i wonder by example - not! School is one place our kids (and their parents before them) have noticed an a complete absence of democracy ( public/private, primary/highschool) and even worse a lot of lip service in the form of hamstrung and inneffectual student councils. Why else are they all still in uniform and learning math when the majority would rather not be!?
But anyway yes it is nice to see them having a good yell even though they’ll be taken about as seriously as a student council. In the long term I believe you’ll win through attrition - the “green” message is strong in education whatever the govt :)
PS. I should have said I think the civic values you would find on closer inspection come from the home, not school and import it to the school. but then I could be utterly wrong :) Now how should we test this? Would you care to ask a sampling of the kids what awakes a civic consciousness then pop a poll from a focus group up on the blog somewhere?