Met my neighbour's little girl who started her new secondary school this week. I asked her was she liking it and the tears started to flow and she began to weep. What's the matter - Oh Jenny - I hate my class. Only 11 - I nearly wept with her.
I suspect that, as theyre all new to big school in her class, theyre all fighting for their positions and forming alliances and your little neighbour has probably has a run-in with a fellow pupil.
I've had an 11yo girl in my class who was so terrified on the first day at her new school that she was quite literally sick with fear (all over my new shoes!).
A week or so later she'd made new friends and was loving every bit of it.
my last day at skool was Dec 1968
and fifty y later my brother asked - did you enjoy skool ?
and I said " it was a place you went to to learn things "
and he said O god ....
I adored school - mother would say - take a day off lovey - not on your nelly ma. Think it was the heat and the school dinners. First time I tasted coconut pie and cream (can't remember the correct name)