Hi,
sorry about the lack of blogs from me, just don’t seem to have got round to
writing one for one reason or another.
Life
at the moment for the OSO has been hard work in lots of bad weather so she’s
not been the happiest of creatures!
Bad
weather has never been good for me, trying to drive a wheelchair through snow
has never been the easiest of tasks as you might well imagine!
I
remember one time at my school in Bakewell we got rather caught out with bad
weather, rain to be precise, lots and lots of it!
You
may remember that by this time the OSO was working at the school where I was.
At that time she had to take me to school and back because the Local Authority
wouldn’t fork up for a taxi (obviously I couldn’t get in and out of the school
bus, well you try it in a dobbing great powered wheelchair!) So Mum applied
for, and got a part time job at the school which made transporting me a lot
easier. It inevitably made it harder juggling Roger and Alistair at their
primary school, but obviously Mum and Dad were hoping that they would come onto
the same school as me.
This
was not to prove to be as straight forward as it sounds because, as you know
the school was not our catchment school and it was very popular and everyone
wanted to go there ‘cause it was so good so it was going to prove to be quite
hard to get Roger and Alistair in the school as well as me.
The
OSO, as ever, was also being rather cunning. She knew that if she had a job
there it would help in getting my bro’sinto the school, it was another box that
could be ticked on the ‘out of catchment’ application form! She’s not as dumb
as she looks.
The
year after me going Mum and Dad applied for Roger to go to the school and he
didn’t get a place, so they had to go to appeal which was very long winded and
stressful, Mum and Dad had to write to and actually go to present their case to
the appeal panel. They did eventually let him in, more fool them I say!
Roger
then had to attend a sort of trial/ look round day with the other out of
catchment kids. As ever, he was dead embarrassing, and on the tour of the
Science labs he asked the Headteacher (who was a bit of a stickler) if anyone
had managed to blow up the labs yet, the Head wasn’t dead impressed, and
mentioned this to the parents when she went to talk to them in the Library. She
mentioned that one child (naming no names) had asked this daft question.
Needless to say the OSO knew whose child the head was talking about!
However,
despite all, Roger did fine at the school and actually went on to be Head Boy,
which, even I must admit, was a fantastic achievement.
Alistair’s
progress into the school was much easier as he had two brothers attending and a
mother working there, so in all honesty, they would have had a job keeping him
out!
Well,
I’ve not done very well in telling you my story about what happened when we had
the flood at school, I sort of got onto another story! Never mind I’ll tell you
all about it in my next blog, and I promise you won’t have to wait for it as
long as you have for this one!
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