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Kindergarteners and Kassams in Sderot

[Jerusalem Post] Noam Bedein - At a Sderot nursery school, Debbie, one of the teachers, details how they had just managed to go to their security room with 15 children aged 3-5, in 15 seconds. She describes how the children walk quickly, in a way which has already become routine, stay quiet, and wait to hear the explosion of the rocket. The children are not able to play outside in the school playground. When they go home, Debbie says she reminds the children not to go to any playground and to run home as fast as they can. On Fridays, the children have a "wishing day," where they can ask for anything, Debbie explains. The only wish, she says, is for the Arabs to stop firing missiles at us. At another nursery school, Ofra the teacher is talking about snails, and asks the children: "Why does the snail have a shell?" The children answer in chorus: "So it can be protected from the Kassams." Ofra mentions that the children have building and puzzle pieces made from Kassam rocket fragments, as if they were a new form of Lego, and that they all say they want to be soldiers when they grow up, to "fight those Arabs who fire Kassams on us."
2006-11-24 01:00:00
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