Spring bank holiday

 Late spring bank holiday, always a bit of funny time ever since the Labour Party added May Day to our traditional Bank Holiday calendar, wis another day off so why wouldn't you spent that time with friends doing things?

Just pack a few things and go off with your mates for a day having fun, perhaps hiking or something a bit like that in the open  countryside, seeing how many different species you can see along the way.

Weak?

The oldes trope for men and boys was the association of physical ill health with a loss of your masculine mojo which as a boy who has disabilities and who had periods of ill health growing up I am bound to say is a bit of a nonsense.

Your health depends on your physical fitness that as a boy you should be encouraged to build up and maintain but you can do little about innate health conditions only learn to master dealing with the consequences such as making up for lost time and looking after yourself through those periods.

Anyone that knows me soon realizes I've gumpton and balls.

New old you

The new but old go together with a modern bedroom with traditional wooden draws and desk to do your school homework on and space for your bags and wardrobe to keep your clothes all tidy ready for school and any social occassions you are expected to attend.

That mirrors how you dress which is less mid 2010's and more 1970's prep school avoiding that shift to long trousers all year that crept in even if you have a modern smartphone which in an age that doesn't feature the phone box as the place to ring your mates is a must and makes sending notes via text messaging a doddle.
 

School and boys

 

Around the early 1970's you tended to see a higher proportion of women teachers in school particulary Primary although when it came to Headship, Headmasters and deputies still were mainly male perhaps because of the assumption women couldn't "own" the same respect as men.

I first had a female Headmistress in my last years in high school which it had to be said felt very much a different experience not that I'm suggesting in any respect she wasn't up to it as on reflection she was excellent.

I think the problem area is when a high proportion of teaching staff are female boys feel their is no one who knows and understands what being a boy is like, what makes them "tick" and so acting up and the like increases apart from those boys who don't have good male role models at home being at risk of going down the wrong path.