{Please don't jump onto this with remonstrations about how we middle class parents are weak and compliant. If you've found a way to resist CBC that doesn't involve taking your child to GCSE or ACE, talk to
Anyway, the thing I want to talk about is how the people living in the market locales seem not to have been consulted about a possible
The task, if you think critically about it, is invasive and elitist. It subsumes a place is dirty and in need of outside intervention to "clean" it without any context.
For instance, why are markets dirty?
Showing offence that a bunch of snotty kids and their teachers had invaded and insulted them
CBC here put kids on an NGO mission. Mark, no kids have been tasked to clean the school itself. It is externalising "help" as a mission to an othered space. We need to question this and the sociocultural implications.
At its heart, CBC is pushing a very
This agenda is couched in the language of improvisation of tools and materials, and "authenticity". But ultimately, it is for show.
The markets being "cleaned" were dirty again by day's end, I'm sure. So what's the point?
But if on the way home they pass by those markets and see them dirty, what are they learning?
And what are we saying to the adults who live and work in these "dirty" spaces?
These are questions we must deal with.