Sign Of The Week (11)

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The daily task of getting your children ready for school can be stress-inducing at the best of times, but occasionally there will come that awful realisation that little Jimmy or Jemima will miss the cut and will receive a telling off for missing the start of school. You start to hatch dastardly plans to claw back some of those vital seconds that could make all the difference.

It is good to know that these feelings are universal. A novel approach to the problem of tardiness has been adopted by some of the parents whose little darlings attend the Trillade Primary School in Avignon. When they see the sands of time inexorably slipping way, they have taken to throwing their children over a 1.8 metre fence into the school grounds.

So concerned has the school’s head teacher, Sanaa Meziane, become that she has resorted to posting signs on the fence asking parents to desist and return with their children either at 10am or 3 pm when the gates are unlocked.

Best to nip these things in the bud.