There can be. I think the truth is that kids of that age are, above all, incredibly impressionable. They take their cues from those above, and those determine how they sort out peer issues. Dogs are much the same. Find a happy, well-balanced dog and you'll invariably find its owner is good people. Find a mean, spiteful brat, and you'll generally find its parents are not nice people. It's not always the case, but I bet if you did a bit of homework at that school you'd find it has a really good head, whose leadership sets the tone for the way everyone in that community behaves. When I used to write on management, they called it 'the way we do things round here'.there's a lovely innocence to children of that sort of age
You say that, but I met a girl exactly the same (well lost her arm to cancer) and I was impressed to see that sentence didn't apply apart from shoe laces, and even then she wanted shoe laces so she could try to learn! Whether it was cycling, carrying boxes for the teacher etc she wasn't going to let it stop her doing anything! I stopped trying to help her and just waited for her to ask if she did need me to do anything (shoelaces). (And her arm was simply a plastic one that she found annoying). I hear that she is doing well at her new school.We had a girl at School when we were about 13, who lost her right arm following a Cancer, and had a prosthetic limb
The Form Teacher was brilliant keeping us informed and there were no issues at all when she returned, simply an acceptance that there were some things she could not do, and would need help