Article: Always on a Friday. (Ryan).(Friday Night School socializing immigrant children, Australia)

SHORTLY AFTER 5 p.m. one recent Friday, I drove into the yard behind a large Melbourne near-city church. This might have come as a shock to my weather-beaten old utility, more accustomed at that hour to visiting the parking lot attached to the local pub; but the car was hardly more surprised than its owner.

There, at an hour when you might have expected most children to be at home getting ready for their tea, a hundred or more of them appeared to be just settling down in class. No, they were not the naughty ones "kept in" for discipline. They were the brightest, liveliest, happiest lot you ever saw, bursting with exuberance yet settling seriously down to work. ...

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