Too much of school!
When my mother finally decided to take that plum posting as a Divisional Head, I knew changes were a foot.
Her office hours stretched way beyond my school hours. And anyway, I was privy to the many discussions my parents had about 'Honey, what do we do with the kids?' Well, finally they struck gold - an educational after school Class. Won't that be just grand? Kids are learning new things while parents are happily minting in the money!
And so, we went directly to another class after our school. The brochure said that they would be 'using fun activities and innovative teaching 
methods to fill the gap in your child's understanding'. To us it ment lot's of toys!,learning toys, eductional toy's, games, girls toys, Boys Toys, painting, crafts and more toys! well, we were soon to find out, not the case here, our dreams were shattered!
I suppose what they meant was that the teacher would write down the homework and we were to copy it. At least, this is what happened most of the time. Of course, we didn't tell our parents. How would that help? They'd simply get smart and shift us to a class that would actually make us solve our homework.
I hated the classes. Mostly, I was bored to tears or falling asleep. After so many hours at school who'd want to spend the entire afternoon with the same books? But, as a child, one had little choice in these matters. Especially when one's parents were cleverly telling one that mothers salary will help get us that spanking new TV or that video game or the newest toy. Win some, lose some!
Then, one day, my sister decided to rock the proverbial boat. She decided she had enough of studying and refused to go to the After School Class. That's when my parents began to smell something stale. Shortly after that, they put us in a better After School Care (oh yes, another educational one). However this was bigger, brighter and somehow more fun. We had some interesting games,learning toys, educational toys, girls toys, boys
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toys, and a COMPUTER too. Each of us got a chance to do something on the PC(this, when PCs were just beginning to make their presence felt). Wesomehow managed to blaze through our homework, most of which had to be done by us. Then it was time to have fun. We had a little bit of everything. We played with all the toys, then we had Acting classes, speech, games and of course painting. Those hours we spent splashing color on pages and laughing at silly jokes were really the highlight of an otherwise boring day. Ironically, I began looking forward to my After School Class.
Now, so many years afterward, when I need to take up a job and leave my own child alone till I get back, I know how important these After School Classes have become. Talk about history repeating itself! I just hope I get my chrildren into a good one, and yes, it's going to be an educational After School Class too.
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