Do you also feel nauseated when hearing the word ‘Syria’ and ‘chemical attacks’? A nausea that comes, not only from feeling appalled by what is happening, but from the fact that it is happening again and again and again? Do you also think: “but what can I do about?”. When I have heard about Syria, I’ve experienced a ‘silence’ within me, like there is nothing left to say, because this is yet another war, another tragedy on top of many others that I have read about in history b

Today I’ve heard on separate occasions from a parent and a teacher respectively sharing their perspective from within their own current situation regarding the state of the education system and themselves in it. Both were tragic tales but from opposite sides of the education continuum. The parent felt that her child since starting school had become withdrawn and competitive and even that the child had lost confidence in himself. She explained how through the eyes of the ch