Tag: education
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Senior Underachiever
Every so often my wonderful work wife Trisha drags me out to some social function or other, like I’m a pet project and she’s studying the effects of enforced recreation on misanthropes. Last night that was to an event for the Junior Achievement organization. I put together some online training for them a while back, so figured this was some kind of thank you for the volunteers, and figured I deserved a free drink as much as the next person, so against my natural tendencies, agreed to go. And on a school night, too! But instead of the quiet round… Read more
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All good character-building stuff
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about where I am in life (probably a mid-life crisis thing) and about my schooldays (probably because I’ve been in touch with a few of my old ‘schoolchums’, recently), but mainly about the correlation between the two. I’ve aways credited my school – the Duke of York’s Royal Military School – with helping me get to where I am, but the more I think about it, maybe I should credit my school with hampering me from getting to where I could have been. It could have all turned out so differently, if only I’d had a… Read more
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World class what, now?
So, my kids’ school is closing down. I don’t want to get all concerned-parent-launches-Save-Our-Schools-campaign, but there are certain aspects to this that really burn my ass. The school (The British Primary School, in Vossem (near Brussels) in Belgium) has been running for thirty years. Last year the original (and now aged) founders decided that it was about time they retired, and sold it to an ‘educational company’ called WCLS (World Class Learning Schools and Systems). The announcement of the closure was made by Charlie Freer, the US-based Finance Director of WCLS, who flew over especially so he could tell us… Read more