I run a Beaver Scout group and often joke about my regular Tuesday evening headache.
As Scouts we do try to work around a curriculum but much of our time has been eaten up by ‘crowd control’. The group is very diverse, we now seem to attract more than our fair share of children with additional needs, and now we’ve decided not to fight but embrace the cacophony: a ‘rope-adope’ approach!
Our Beavers can’t possibly be like this at school, they just wouldn’t survive, so we’ve understood that having sat still from 9am, and then ploughed through the obligatory ton of homework, by 6pm they just can’t cope any more!
We do FUN. Active, sometimes focussed, fun. My Tuesday evening headache is in fact a service to these kids, their parents and their schools. It’s a rod for my back but fuck it. 🤪
Good work! I do wonder what’s behind it. Are kids, particularly boys, just deprived of the opportunity to run around, get physical, find some space for themselves? Is it a lack of structure, meaning or authority? I know there’s more to additional/special needs, but it’s a cultural trend in my view far more than a ‘real’ one.
I run a Beaver Scout group and often joke about my regular Tuesday evening headache.
As Scouts we do try to work around a curriculum but much of our time has been eaten up by ‘crowd control’. The group is very diverse, we now seem to attract more than our fair share of children with additional needs, and now we’ve decided not to fight but embrace the cacophony: a ‘rope-adope’ approach!
Our Beavers can’t possibly be like this at school, they just wouldn’t survive, so we’ve understood that having sat still from 9am, and then ploughed through the obligatory ton of homework, by 6pm they just can’t cope any more!
We do FUN. Active, sometimes focussed, fun. My Tuesday evening headache is in fact a service to these kids, their parents and their schools. It’s a rod for my back but fuck it. 🤪
Good work! I do wonder what’s behind it. Are kids, particularly boys, just deprived of the opportunity to run around, get physical, find some space for themselves? Is it a lack of structure, meaning or authority? I know there’s more to additional/special needs, but it’s a cultural trend in my view far more than a ‘real’ one.