Babies are cute and stuff, but when them grow up, all hell breaks loose, without exception.
Case in point: The kids we took to the visit last week. On the micro we hired, they fought, teased all the passer-bies, tried spitting into the cars behind us, and threw shoes at each other--all from inside the jeep. Thankfully, their teacher reprimanded hem, and they were relatively docile after that. At the Patan museum, the caretaker even told us they were the one of the least-rowdy school kids they had come across.
Anyways, MIE is almost coming to end (Finally?) and I am glad too many bad things did not happen to us. The teachers were really helpful, the kids were (generally) cooperative inside the school, they had fun and so did most of the volunteers.
Oh, and about the problem I was worried about: it seems my worries were unjustified. The big kids did not create too much problems once we started treating them as our helpers instead of like students. It was interesting to see the classmates divided into 'semi-teacher' and 'students' but we had no other problems and things worked out pretty well.