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‘My son doesn’t like school, he never has – and I’ve finally accepted I can’t change that’
My son doesn’t like school. The signs came as early as his Montessori teacher saying that he mixed well, could do the work, wasn’t disruptive, but, she joked, “is too cool for school”. Then came junior infants. We’d already had a wonderfully uncomplicated experience with our daughter in the local school. Kitted out in his miniature uniform, Prince Charming hair gleaming, we assumed it would be the same for our son. It wasn’t. At the parent-teacher meeting, his teacher uttered the exact phrase we’d already heard: “too cool for school” and ordered us to cut his hair, citing that it was hindering his concentration.