“Instead of homework, he brought a glass jar”

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Every parent has it once in a while: one of those pleasantly absent-minded moments when one child goes out with the other’s homework or you promptly blame the wrong teacher.

Deborah (47), mother of Job (16), Luuk (14) and Ciske (11):

“With three children at different schools, it is always a juggle to get every child to appear on time in the right clothes and with the necessary materials.

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Once that went horribly wrong and I mixed up all the tasks. For example, child 1 brought the glass jar from child 2’s assignment, child 2 brought the sock that was needed for child 3’s craft assignment, and child 3 brought child 1’s homework. So Ciske could not make a hand puppet without a sock. Instead, his brother’s math was in his high school bag, which was 15 minutes away by bike.

Luuk was in an annex building and was given a sock, but he just needed a glass jar to make a lamp. And when Job was asked where his homework was, he replied in astonishment: ‘I don’t know sir, but I do have a glass jar in my backpack!’ The teacher laughed out loud. ah, story of my life. I’m on my own and there’s a real lava flow of emails about study days and free hours every day.

“I am on my own and there is a real lava flow of emails coming in every day”

I also sometimes e-mailed the mathematics teacher in a huff, because he had indicated an ‘absent’ in Magister as unauthorized, while I had duly signed out my son. Turns out I had emailed my other son’s teacher. Different school, same last name. My response was: ‘I don’t teach math at all, ma’am.’”

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