27 September 2009
A week ago I had to rush my 9-year-old son to hospital... Accident & Emergency. He'd been running in the playground, tripped, and split his head open on a wall.There was lots of blood. Almost immediately his shirt was crimson with it.
But I never saw that. By the time my wife and I got there his teachers had bandaged his head and changed him into his PE shirt. Our job was to get him to hospital fast.
So I never saw the blood, and I never saw the crimson shirt. I never saw it because that night his teacher took it home and washed it.
Let me say that again. She took his shirt home and washed it!
I find that extraordinary. I find that inspiring. I find myself thinking (not for the first time) how much better we could and should treat these extraordinary people.
Footnote: My boy is fine. They literally glued him back together!
Posted by Nick Warren at 6:43 PM
2 Comments:
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mark.persad said...
Here...here
11:51 AM -
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One reason that springs to mind is that should the parent actually see the t-shirt covered in blood, many would naturally get defensive about their child and make the situation worse by finger pointing? An element of me thinks the teacher did this to avoid any potential confrontations with the parents. Not all parents are as easy going as you seem to be!
If this was CSI the teacher would be arrested for contamination of the evidence! But we don't live on channel 5, we live in the real world where these little things make a massive difference to both the development of the child and the teacher parent relationship.
3:16 PM