ABSTRACT
Teachers and students report schools as being highly stressful places. In any one school day hundreds of different interactions are taking place, some of which may be unresolved, leaving the participants in an emotional and stressed state. Teachers on inservice courses describe being ‘drained’ physically and emotionally at the end of a school day. A reasonable assumption would be that students share this feeling too. As parents we have noticed that our own children want to do little but watch television at the end of the school day and are virtually incommunicado while children’s programmes are on. This is a not uncommon phenomenon and we believe one that provides an opportunity for children to withdraw into themselves after the stress of a school day.
