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Nicola jones Post 1

• 26 February 2021, 11:19 PM

Feeling excluded

Feeling excluded has no particular place, time, age, gender or creed. I first felt excluded in  my Sunday School Class. Most of the children were from upper-middle class households with a good command of the Jamaican Standard English which they used fluently to communi ation  with each other. They all had monies to drop into the collection plates during  offering time. I on the other hand didnt meet any of those criteria for inclusion. I spent the coin i got on sweets while walking to church. The Sunday School teacher was a beautiful soul. She knew what to do but didnt know how



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Rose Nyambura Post 2 in reply to 1

• 2 March 2021, 3:41 PM

FEELING EXCLUDED

Nicola, I thought  I am the only one who immediately remembered being excluded as a child. I grew up in the 70's when single motherhood was unacceptable in majority of  African set ups and children from single mothers were segregated in schools. I vividly remember we were registering for our national primary school examination and this teacher asked for my father's name and i proudly gave my grandpa's name (the only adult male i knew and who was taking care of us). The teacher shouted back at me that 'That is not your father, you have no father! I wished the ground would have opened up and swallowed me. I now know that this was exclusion, I never recovered and have never had guts to use a man's name to date! Anyone with such an experience? How do we treat children from various family backgrounds who land in our classes today? Do we still exclude them? Do we have any idea the kind of damage we cause these innocent children?