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Today the school lunch was the weirdest one yet. Some kind of weak soup with carrots, potatoes and onion, sultana roll, mandarin and this weird kind of deep fried something with chicken. They have all these weird vegies here that I have never seen at home and consequently always forget the name of . Anyway, it was one such vegie with the chicken, all covered in satay-like sauce which was bright orange. It didn't really seem to go together, like soup with sweet bread? What's with that? I reckon they must have been scraping the barrel when they came up with that one. The kids were equally unimpressed, especially when I couldn't say what the orange stuff was called in English!

After lunch everyday we have 10 minutes of school cleaning and the year 5s clean the English room. At the moment the naughty kid is assigned to my room. So he comes in and waves the broom at people, trying to take their noses off, runs the little carpet broom over the floor and tries to roll the string from the venetian blinds up inside it so he can have an excuse to sit down for 5 minutes and unravel it. At the end of the time he opens up the bottom of the thing and empties all the dust and shit he collected all over the floor next to the bin and buggers off to terrorise his next class. I do not know this kids name, but he is followed constantly by a "keeper". This teacher (I just assume he is a teacher, I don't know what his real qualifications are) just has to trail around behind this rowdy kid all day and make sure he doesnt kill anyone or interrupt too many lessons. He rarely comes to my classes, and when he does he gets bored is taken out halfway through because he is distracting the other kids. It's nice that htey have the funding to give kids like that individual care, but they are kind of just making him worse I think. He gets so much special treatment that he sees no reason to modify his behvaiour. He never has to attend class if he doesn't feel like it, he gets away with saying whatever he wants to whoever he wants and never uses his manners like the other kids have to. He just wanders in and out of the staffroom as though it were his loungeroom - if any other kids do that they get screamed at and told to go back and start again, saying "excuse me" and all that. So while it appears that they are doing something for him, they have actually just given up on him completely. Of course it is good that he doesn't disturb his classmates, but he himself is getting no help whatsoever. When he goes to middle school he won't be able to continue as he is now, but will have no concept of functioning as a normal student and will just get left behind again until he can leave school and the teachers can be rid of him. It's a bit sad really because he is a bright kid, he just has never been disciplined.