Thursday, 13 December 2012

education system really needs to re assess start times.


                When you think about it, 8 am isn't that early. All through elementary and High School, we've always started around 8 am. Why is it suddenly people lose their minds when they have 8 am classes? Why is it suddenly so much earlier? 8 am has been not a minute earlier or later since man first inventing them concept of time. Don’t get me wrong, I think 8 am is extremely early. Thus going to what this whole blog will be about: Changing the time classes start. Surely not much gets done at 8 am. I know personally the class I have this semester at 8 am I really get nothing doesn't except Facebook. 
Even then, there’s nothing exciting since it barely changed from the night before. 
The people who decide these things, do they not think before the plan schedules?  At least in High School and Elementary school you usually lived down the street and were done at 3 pm tops.
 In post-secondary, some people travel up to a couple of hours to get to school; I have a friend that commutes to Waterloo every day. Not only that, but classes can end really late sometimes. Also while in post-secondary, the need to have a part-time job is almost necessity. Not to mention all the late hours doing homework. Is there any wonder so many students suffer depression and have health issues and are always falling asleep in class? Even pushing the earliest class to 10 would make the world of difference. I believe there was a study that showed the brain doesn't properly work till after 10 am, though that’s subjective to your sleep pattern in general.  Granted changing the start time would also make the last class end later and that could also cause a problem when it comes to travelling home late and students trying to maintain a part time job. All in all, the school schedules really shoot themselves in the foot. I don’t know if there really is any real solution, nor do I have nay power to change it. All I have to do is just bite the bullet and go to class…At least most of the time

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