The family firm.

I think is a load of codswallop . Imagine a teacher in your average primary, standing out in the yard waiting for each and every family to arrive in order to give them his or her personal greeting/handshake/curtsy . Who’s looking after the 29 or so who arrived earlier?

Exaggeration again. Some have said children were greeted , eye contact made with the little ones, not hand shaking .

You obviously don’t make eye contact with tinies trisher you tower over them ?

Gosh gilly your schools only have one teacher to 30 small
children? The schools my children and grandchildren attended had a teacher and nursery assistant.

The greeting of little Charlotte was public to protect the child from press intrusion throughout the rest of the term.

Can't believe a thread started to say how sweet a little girl looked starting school has reached 18 pages!

Perhaps in state schools not all children are greeted personally on their first day but as has been said before, taking photos of a child of the RF starting school is a convention, if it wasn't done you could have photographers crowded around windows, invading the privacy of the other children - because photos would be taken one way or another. This way the photographers get their photos and the children and left alone.

As for the teacher's "curtsey" - doesn't everyone lean down when speaking to a small child?

Why would you curtsey to Princess Charlotte and not to Prince William?!!! There was NO curtsey ! The teacher bent her knees (which is the right way to bend!) to get down to the level of the little girl to shake her hand! She didn't have to do this when greeting her father for obvious reasons as the video makes clear!

The days of Nursey assistants of TAs in every class are long gone Anniebach The very real cuts to education spending introduced by the Tories meant that they had to go. There's not much left to cut.I've never known head teachers protest in 50 years but they did schoolcuts.org.uk/story/2000-headteachers-downing-street/
You obviously don't know much about children from deprived or troubled backgrounds Annie they find eye contact very difficult and sometimes threatening. It can take months before they are able to allow you to get close to them.

Children from differing backgrounds don’t easily make eye contact , abuse is not confined to one part of society, abuse, cruelty etc goes across the board!

Some / many

A curtsey to a little girl who is 4th in line to the throne but not to the second in line to the throne ?

Neither poverty or wealth dictates who or who won’t suffer abuse.

It may Bridgeit but the idea that there are not children who come into school from disadvantaged families where they have experienced more and consistent neglect and poor parenting is just ridiculous. Sure Start gave many of these children a boost before they started school. It's another thing that this government has cut of course.
But hey one over priveleged little girl starting school deserves more compassion and publicity than the hundreds maybe thousands starting school without breakfast and not even knowing how to shake hands.

Pinpointing one child from a family is not a direct correlation.
The disparity of peoples lives does not come down to
The Royal Family /versus everyone else
It is sad & I feel for you if your life is not as you wish but to place the blame for it on the fact that TheQueen & her Family exists is just ludicrous

I don’t believe anyone was suggesting compassion for the the little girl, just captioning an event taking place for that particular family. Also allowing photographers magazines to earn / make money from the occasion

Good posts Brigeit

trisher I have no idea whereabouts in the UK you are but at our local primary school they have an intake of 40 into reception class, which is a purpose built extra large class.

There are two full-time qualified teachers and two full time TA's.

From year One onwards the classes are approx 28, with basic streaming so children can learn at a pace suited to their ability.

It is an open plan state school.

All classes other classes have a full time TA, along with many parent/grandparent helpers for reading and arts and crafts.

One of our C when there and 2 GC one of whom started reception last week.

Nothing to do with my life Bridgeit I was brought up to believe there is more to life than thinking of myself and my family. That society matters and a social conscience is something to be admired. It is sad that some can only attribute wanting a more equal society to a desire for personal gain. I count myself incredibly lucky to have the lifestyle I have. But I am conscious that the lives of others are much more difficult and that the society I grew up in has been steadily eroded so that support for the poorest no longer exists as it once did. At the same time the media has recreated belief in the value of an inherited system of monarchy. You may not realise the two are connected but they are.
ten that toil while one reposes

Bread and Roses

As we come marching, marching, in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill-lofts gray
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing, "Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses."

As we come marching, marching, we battle, too, for men—
For they are women's children and we mother them again.
Our days shall not be sweated from birth until life closes—
Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses.

As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient song of Bread;
Small art and love and beauty their trudging spirits knew—
Yes, it is Bread we fight for—but we fight for Roses, too.

As we come marching, marching, we bring the Greater Days—
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler—ten that toil where one reposes—
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses.

— James Oppenheim, 1911.[40]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWkVcaAGCi0

wish there was a like button for that Trisher ,good post.

Returning to the topic of the thread, the press photographing
a little Windsor starting school, sells papers, you made money for taking photographs of the Windsors paddyanne, no difference

Thanks Annie,
I just don’t get how some are so unaware of their own hypocrisy .?

as I said before when I work I leave my personal feelings at the door ,its called being PROFESSIONAL , maybe thats something you dont undestand?
Where would we be if everyone who objected to someone else refused to do work for them> Patients sent home because doctors objected to their lifestyle for instance.
Of course you have your own brand of hypocrisy Annie ...lol.A SOCIALIST no less ...she says ...lol .Who is happy to see this kind of inequality .Now I really am out of this .I will do my utmost to avoid you on threads in the future ,Quite frankly your attitude to all this RF nonsense sickens me .Your not like ANY socialist I;ve ever come across .

It’s called , hypocrisy & missing the irony of one’s own actions

paddyann I don’t equal a photographer with a doctor ,you
Equal the work of Arthur the photographer for the Sun with doctors?

You were happy to make money from people you call parasites yet accuse me hypocrisy

GG13 your school is incredibly lucky. Even with the new funding announced most schools are having to cut their spending and sadly support staff are easy to lose. You can check how much your child's school is losing here schoolcuts.org.uk/schools/
My GCs school has lost £400+ per pupil
The National Education Union says
£66m for early years funding is wholly inadequate.

The Government needs to invest £300 million to restore cuts to early years provision.
There is still no money for maintained nursery schools that remain under threat of closure from next August.
Anyone with young children should be very worried about their child's education.

So she’s gone.....but surely she doesn’t believe that you can’t be a socialist and like the Queen? How does that work? All Labour voters want to get rid of the Queen?

Actually paddyann there are those who turn down work due to their principles.

DH was a builder, called to estimate turning a basement of a very large house into a "man cave". DH gave a verbal quote which was accepted. There was then further discussion about the project when the customer said he wanted to use the space to display his hunting trophies. He then showed DH some of these "trophies", animals he had shot on expeditions to Africa.

DH was passionate about animal conservation and immediately told the man he wouldn't carry out the work.