After school clubs

The strange after school ballet is well sychronised now.  Outside the local gymnasium or music school there is a constant coming and going of cars, as parents shuttle their children from judo to trumpet classes and other such activities.  In France music and art are not part of the primary school curriculum.  I remember having pottery and music classes at school.  Here parents are forced to register their children in after -school classes if they want them to partake in these activities.  It is this that gives rise to the late afternoon circus of cars rushing back and forth.  Part of the fault for this lies with the four -day week, there is no time to include art subjects in four days.  Wednesday is perhaps the busiest day of the week for parents.  Many mothers don't work Wednesdays as they have to ferry their kids about.  There is talk of school on Wednesdays but so far the teaching unions are  holding out.  So if your planning to bring up children in France steel yourself to become a taxi driver for your children and their friends.