Old School
Imagine getting the chance to run a school, just for one day! Well, I'm to get that chance in a few weeks when I swap jobs with the head teacher at Elgin High School in Moray, which is ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland's SoundTown school.
Then, later in the year, the headmaster gets the chance to run Radio Scotland for a day.
Well, I don't suppose they'll really let me run riot and do all the things I dreamt about when I was a pupil. You know...abolishing P.E., extended holidays, field trips to the chip shop...but I might get an inkling of what life is like in a modern Scottish school.
As a parent, I see it from the other side and worry about the amount of homework our two children have to do at evenings and weekends...and why there seems to be endless fund-raising activities for the PTA.
Yet it makes me nostalgic for my own schooldays. Sadly, all three of the schools I attended in Easterhouse have now been demolished. I managed to grab this photograph of my first primary school just before the bulldozers moved in, but not before the vandals had made their own mark on the place.
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