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Its not often I use my blog to rant but I feel I’m justified on this occasion. Most parents of school age children will recognise this scenario… You are standing on the playground waiting for school to kick out (invariably it is raining as it always seem to do at 3.20PM but that’s a different story). Out comes your child with a huge grin waiving an inanimate object in your face. Huge delight ahead, we have the school frickin bear! Who on earth decided that taking a manky, dirt ridden, germ infested, piece of tat home for the night was a good idea and in the slightest bit educational? Let me tell you teachers, its not educational in the slightest. There’s not a parent alive that relishes writing a diary about what your sodding bear has done over the weekend. Let’s be honest, its normally 8PM on Sunday night when we remember to read out what our little one needs to write in the diary. Some things to remember about the school bear … Teachers,  you may think you are being helpful suggesting we might like to add photos or drawings of Bear’s activities into the diary but we truly more »