Schools - 6 Days of Doing Nothing

Where I catch the bus from, there is a school opposite it. Doesn't matter what time of day it is, kids are always in the playground, and also coming and going from the school. At lunch time, kids were even being picked up by parents. Kids also go for a half day of school on Saturday. Just makes me wonder if they ever learn anything. Catch a bus any time of day and school kids are on it.

The other day they must have been having a fund raiser. The school is on a busy Boulevard with a set of traffic lights out the front. When ever the lights went red, they were running in between cars seeing if they wanted to buy stuff. There wasn't a teacher in sight. Such a contrast to when the NSW state government was freaking out to adults collecting for the Salvation Army at traffic lights.

I think things are a little more lax here. We have a couple of teenagers getting killed in car accidents and there is debate about over hauling the laws relating to young people getting licenses. From what I can gather, here the road death toll is what is it, and that is the way of things.

Also, from what Rob has been telling me, kids when they get to about the age of 14/15 can get a type of license for motor scooters. So you see young kids, even with passengers on the back, weaving in and out of traffic, no helmets on etc. I was beginning to wonder what the parents would think, but they are probably blairze about it all.