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In reply to the discussion: This short video might inspire you, and it will certainly inform. Also, goodbye and good luck. [View all]Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)sooo easy to protest in Spain and France!! Even I've been involved. I joined a group of teachers (of which I was a private one, but I still wanted to help the public school teachers), in a protest in Madrid. I lived in Mostoles, a town 45 kms outside of Madrid. That day I walked to the fast train, got to Madrid in no time, took the Metro, which is super speedy, and before I knew it, I was at the protest, and it was wonderfully and beautifully huge.
At the time I worked at a newly-opened private school started by a Spanish teacher in a blue-collar worker section of Getafe. The school would have an emphasis on English, so the kids could become fluent. Since it had just been opened a few days, it felt like a risk for me to be absent!!! Coming from the U.S., I have that built-in terror of losing a job that everyone has here. But I needn't have worried at all. I asked my boss, who owned the recently-opened private school at the last minute, if I could be absent. He said it was fine for me to go join the public school teachers in the protest, because he believed in teachers - he was one himself. That day, kids showed up in my classroom and just did homework for the other classes (they were well behaved) while the secretary for the school sat in the classroom with them.
I had told my boss that that same Saturday I'd open up the classroom for the kids to come at their respective hours to do the classes, and I'd have snacks for them. The kids actually preferred that because it was a different experience. So I did that. My hubby and I brought ensaladilla rusa, galletas and CocaCola, and the kids and I had an all-day learning Saturday experience, while my hubby sat in the back and provided extra tutoring. lol There was only one student who couldn't come, and I gave her a catch-up session one afternoon. The parents were very cool with it all despite the school being brand new because, being blue collar workers, they were VERY lib!!! SUCH A PLEASURE!
Can't do any of that here.