Earlier this week I read with interest an article on the SchoolGate blog by Sarah Ebner.
I don’t want to re-hash the article here, but by way of giving a little background – the article detailed the experiences of another parent, Joanne Mallon who has a son who is small for his age.
She recalls a situation her son experienced at school. The class were playing a game whereby they had to describe a fellow classmate without describing them physically. One child blurted out “He’s small”. As Joanne recalls it: “The teacher came down on this like a ton of bricks, because it was outside the rules of the game…”
The article generated a number of comments and got me thinking.