This is a short one. I'm going to state the facts and the events without opinion or persomal commentary. Make up your own mind about what happened on Friday:
Friday's structure at school is "extra-curricular" activities. In the morning, the children have their "culture" lesson. After recess, the children have clubs and after lunch, they have gardening and sports.
During culture, the school is separated into "Fijian" and "Indo-Fijian" groups. The children in the "Indo-Fijian" group are of mainly Indian-Fijian decent and those who are in the "Fijian" group are all the other children who are Indigenous Fijian, Rotuman, Chinese, a fruit-salad of culture, but NOT Indo-Fijian. Those in the "Fijian" group learn about Fijian culture and those in the "Indo-Fijian" group learn about Indian-Fijian culture. So far, there has been no integration or cross-cultural learning during culture lesson times.
Last Friday, the children in the "Fijian" culture group went on an excursion to the museum. Opportunities to go on excursions are limited and so when an outing is actually organised and there are funds to venture out of school, there is much excitement and buzz about the school with regards to the upcoming excursion. An excursion is a special event in these children's school lives.
The Indo-Fijian children stayed at school while the Fijian children were given the chance to go out on an excursion to the museum. No excursion has been organised for the Indo-Fijian children at school.
I have my opinions about this situation, but will keep them to myself this time.
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