A litle vent & a question
Ok, First of all my vent in lead up to my question.
Last friday our school had their athletics carnival (well it was Thursday & friday but only kindy's took part on friday).
The day was horrible as far as the weather was concerned. It was cold, drizzly wet & windy.
Now when I say cold, I mean no more then say 5 MAYBE 7 degree, we live up in the mountains.
BUT instead of cancelling, they held the track events in this weather meaning the kids (as in the whole school (that turned up, say about 70 out of 110) had to sit out in the middle of an oval on tarp that was on the grass in this cold, wet, drizzly weather!
Come lunch time I took Evan home, he had done his 2 events fairly early in the day so was basically running around in the cold & wet while other kids did their events. Once I found out he was finished I said ok, well I am taking him home to get warm.
Come Monday at least half the school was off sick! No bloody wonder! Evan kinda class is made up of about 14 kids, Monday, tuesday & wednesday their were between 6 & 8 kids that attended, yesterday I thick there were 5. His teacher mentioned how she can't really do anything with the class when so many are off sick because then those off miss out if she moves on to the next topic.
One of the afternoons I was standing up at the gates waiting for Evan, talking with another Mum & the principal of the school. She was saying how it was lucky the managed to get it done, agreed the weather was horrible, so I piped in & said yes you got it done but now half the school is off sick. She kinda of just laughed it off & said "Oh I know! hahaha" I just stood there thinking, I'm not f**king laughing women! But didn't say anything as their was kids all lined up for the bus.
So now for my question. It concerns me that Evan will miss out on things, maybe be a little behind because the school is so small & when kids are sick class work comes to a halt. Just now I pulled out 5 sheets of paper from his bag with scribble & drawings on them, which makes me wonder, did he just spend the day doing this?
Im not prepared to move him to a bigger school as I do like the school but I am just having some doubts about the size.
Am I crazy for thinking it may impact his learning? I mean come high school will he be as far ahead as other kids from other schools entering yr 7?
Should I mention that I am not happy about the carnival going ahead in such bad weather? They had to do it then apparently as the small schools carnival was held yesterday (& today I think) so those who came first & second last week move on to the next round.
But seriously shouldn't the health of the school overall be more important then making it to small schools?