Victoria White: Dreading saying that final goodbye to the sisterhood of the school gate [Herald.ie]
- Published: 09 June 2011
We're into the last three weeks of the primary school term and all the bets are off. The kids are driven mad by the endless daylight. They really can't hack school anymore.
They can smell the summer and they want it bad.
But there's a group of mothers in my school who are very quiet. They're about to lose the structure of their days and a lot of their social life because their last kid is leaving national school.
GRACE
I have a child who's leaving too, but I have two more to go so I have a few years' grace. But many of the sixth class mothers are into their last three weeks of gossip at the school gate.
"I just can't deal with it," said one friend. Forget the past pupils' union, she's planning get-togethers and social activities in the school for the ex-mammies.
"The kids go on to other schools and they'll probably forget all about their national school. We won't," she says.
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