Tag - education
In case anyone’s interested, I’ll be going to Saint Gabriel’s Secondary School for my Practicum and and Saint Andrew’s Junior College for my Final Posting.
ADDENDUM (Wed, 11 Mar 2009)
For some reason, this post has been under constant attack from comment spammers, so am turning off comments on this post.
As far as I know, that discussion never went anywhere. Parents and teachers said a lot about it; a few doctors chirped up about the importance of adequate rest; some principals were interviewed for their opinions; and a few eccentric people even talked about the necessity of the hardship of getting up early as an essential character-building tool. But in the end most primary schools continued to start at the traditional time 7:30 am.Back to the future. Recently my wife and I attended the orientation programme of my son’s primary school (he begins Primary One next year). We learned that while the school officially started at 7:30 am, all the kids were to be in school by 7:10 am sharp.
— Mr Wang Says So, The Little Kiddies and their Beauty Sleep.
Personally, I believe school should start later, and my belief is backed up by scientific evidence:
- Start school later in the morning, say sleepy teens.
- Schools Waking Up to Teens’ Unique Sleep Needs.
However, this whole debacle about school start times can be (again) effectively eradicated if the idea I proposed yesterday kicks off.