#class stuff

I made my students training logbooks to try to teach them good habits. Most of them are brand new to dog sports, with young dogs. This is a much different class to my previous one. For some of them, this is Baby's First Sport Class. So I feel like it's my responsibility to teach them the Baby Basics and set them up for success. So we'll be spending a lot more time on focus games, and teaching them the value of a good warm-up and cooldown. I don't want these baby dogs to go off to other sports, or even just stay in this one, and get injured because their owners never learned how to warm-up for activity, and how to assess their dogs for soundness.

There’s probably a number of posts to be made about what Endeavour says about the microlayers of the British (well, specifically English) class system, and one at least about how all four of Morse, Thursday, Strange, and Jakes come from a working-class background, but the stratifications meaning it’s not the same between any of the four. Thursday’s childhood (I reckon he was born in about 1910, I note) seems to have been extremely economically deprived (and Jakes’s possibly not a huge amount better, not that we know much about things for him prior to BV). Meanwhile Morse’s accent shift as a result of grammar school and then uni mean he’s very often mistaken for middle-class, which really gives an interesting lot of layers all round. And Strange, as far as we can tell, somewhere between Morse and Jakes.