Yet again my 11 year old has come home in tears because she's not been picked for an important role at school. Every year they choose children for various jobs - pupil council, eco representative, sports representative, and then there's the various poetry competitions, art competitions, music competitions. This year she;s in her final year, so there's the added positions of House Captain and Assistant Captain. Every year she slogs her little guts out writing essays or preparing speeches as her "application" for these positions, gets her hopes up and then gets knocked back flat. Every year we have the tears and snotters and every year she picks herself up and tries again.
I don't believe in the "everyone's a winner" mentality but some of the kids who have been given positions as house captains were sports reps last year, and on the pupil council the year before that. This isn't really about academic or sporting excellence, it's about the teachers not having the common sense to keep a wee list as the class progresses through the school saying who's had a shot and who hasn't.
She is so, so disappointed and I can completely get where she's coming from.
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Bit of a wee rant about kids who never get picked
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LunaLoveg00d · 22/08/2016 16:54
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