Change

I overheard some of my year 7s in the back row discussing my shortcomings while I was trying to load a video from youtube. One student said to the other that the internet was not invented when I was at school. This hurt!
It got me thinking, though, about how different school is from when my peers and me were at school. I think what has changed are the huge pressures that everyone has to deal with from all sorts of areas. For children as well as staff, whilst there are massive benefits in embracing new and various ideas; being able to absorb change and being comfortable with it, I suppose what that may have done is to make people a little self-centred perhaps. There are increasingly questions of ‘what am I getting out of this?’ and almost as if it is an assessment of energy versus reward. However, questioning oneself is definitely no bad thing and makes things much more dynamic.