Assignment 3

For this assignment, I decided to go to the Glasgow rally. Thousands of teachers, parents and lecturers from across Scotland were marching in Glasgow on Saturday 6Th March in a protest against cuts to education budgets.

I didn't really know anything about this or even heard of it before until I was telling my mum about this project. My mum is a teacher and there was a bus running from her school to Glasgow on the Saturday morning, It turns out there was plenty spaces left on the bus so me, my sister, my mum and her friend all went, Although I wasn't too keen on get tin up so early on a Saturday morning. We wern't actually taking part in the march we were just going to see what it was like.

Whilst on the bus I didn't quite know what to expect. I didn't really understand what was actually happening, whether it was a parade like thing or if it was just a large group of people standing and protesting or if they were walking around Glasgow? I then found out that the March started at Kelvingrove Park and they were walking all the way to the SECC.

When we got to Glasgow I noticed large amounts of people everywhere. I also noticed that they all came prepared for the typical Scottish weather, as they were all wrapped up with jackets, hats, scarfs and gloves on, umbrellas and also everyone I looked at was wearing comfortable shoes. I recon if I was taking part in this experience then I would be wearing exactly the same, all wrapped up to walk the streets. Coming into Glasgow I actually felt a bit nervous, As I didn't really no what to expect, I had this vision of all these angry people standing shouting in rage waving banners about, I was right to a certain extent but it wasn't as bad as what i thought it would of been.

I found it really interesting to watch, although I was only watching for about 20 minutes to half an hour as they all passed on the road and I was amazed at how many people had turned up. Its not something that I would really take interest to and go and see because I wanted too but after reading some of the banners that were on display It changed my mind a wee bit. The campaign was entitled "Why must our children pay?"

There was people who felt very strongly against cuts to education budgets and were very loud but there was also people who not so loud and just walked holding up there banner but I don't think this meant they didn't feel as strong about it, maybe they were just generally quite people or tired from walking?

There was a mixture of males and female taking part in the rally I wouldn't say that there was more than one sex than than the other as It looked pretty even. This didn't really surprise me at all, I wasn't expecting to see more of one sex than the other.

Overall I enjoyed my day out to watch and observe the Glasgow rally and the people taking part in it. I was very interested to see how different people were reacting in different ways and it also made me more aware of the situation and the damage that cuts to education budgets could cause.