Star Q
ii. Stay Safe, Kids
All too soon, the extended Lunar New Year holidays will be over! What should have been a week holiday, actually feels like a two-day holiday. I tend to minus the two Saturdays and Sundays because I feel that they should not be regarded as part of the holidays. Even without Lunar New Year, you still get the Saturday (if you are lucky enough to have a boss who allows you to take the Saturday off as an off day!) and Sunday off.
One thing for sure, the roads will be busy again with parents sending their children to school. Not forgetting the school buses, unchartered vans and the military trucks that hawk the roads. Plus the congestion they cause when it rains especially over-doting parents who wish that they can drive their cars right to the front of the classroom doors!
Apart from that, there are other schedules to meet like sending children for tuition (sometimes two or three times a week), extra curricular activities, games, competitions and what-have-you! And there is the multitude of behaviors (and misbehavior!) that cause parents (and teachers alike!) to swallow more than one or two headache pills!
The only consolation about the whole thing is that homemakers can concentrate on doing the house work without having to tend to their children's temper tantrums, horrible noise and unpleasant behaviors like they did during the holidays! Parents can in fact be thankful that, for at least eight hours of the day, that responsibility will be taken over by the teachers!
Yipes! If they, as parents, have difficulty in controlling their own children, I can imagine the distress teachers must feel when school re-opens! If parents can take comfort in controlling their own children (about four or five children per household!), a teacher has no safe zone to run to when he has to face other people's children (about forty per class!) and all from different gene pools!
Help! When is the next holidays?
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