Okay I need to have a grump here. Why? Spain's rural education system - that's why ............ The education system here in the mountains absolutely stinks. If you want to give your child a chance here to succeed and have any sense of their own brilliance, my honest view is that you need to be prepared to put a LOT of behind the scenes effort in. Sometimes I feel like opening a separate blog on the subject to offend the Powers that Be sufficiently that SOMETHING GETS DONE to support these bored out of their wits children. My own son is learning everything in a foreign language, and so for now he is hugely stretched, but it is a living tragedy that while in the UK and other parts of Europe we have the likes of Montessori and Steiner inspiration, here, we have a system staffed by gum chewing unshaven litter bugs setting the example for the next generation. Boo Hiss - watch this space as I do not intend to take it lying down!
They don't even have a system for teaching children to read like the Oxford Learning Tree - my son's first book, which his teacher suggested he chose himself, had words such as Haciendonos in it- for a 6 year old who had never read a Spanish book!! Very not funny!
However, moving onto more practical things, I have British friends here who are in the process of moving from their Masia in the Mountains - QUITE the most beautiful position - too isolated for a single Mum but an absolute Dream for an adventurous, land loving family. We spent the entire morning on All Saints Day heaving tons of gravel to finish off an outside walled garden - hence lots of blisters all round!. On a clear day, you can see the Mediterranean from their house ........... It makes me yearn for my very own home with VIEWS and a parcel of land around it. I am almost certain that I won't be buying it here as prices are British in their expensiveness - but then in fairness, Rubielos is a BREATHTAKINGLY beautiful village. Fortunately there is still a more reasonable market in the villages around Rubielos de Mora, but greed is becoming a known entity now ...
Read my Blog about my ruin in Fuentes to get an idea of the prices - oh, and the greed!
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