“I’m sure the teachers won’t like this,” Andrea said. She was speaking as part of a radio discussion on the need for shorter school holidays and she was right. Scheduling this during the midterm break is downright insensitive – surely such topics should be limited to when teachers are in school and don’t actually have time to listen.
This fact fell on deaf ears both times, as it usually does. Andrea justified her impassioned arguments for an additional two to three weeks of tuition time by the need for digital literacy and consent programmes and so on. Laura, a parenting expert, then spoke and also advocated the longer school year on the basis that the long holidays pose enormous difficulties for working parents. Most employers apparently only give 21 days annual leave, so to be fair there is a shortfall to make up. What holidays from parenting did those complaining expect, I wonder? That’s surely where the real problem lies – it’s important to fully consider the terms and conditions before taking on any job, including parenting.
Shane argued a great case for letting children just be children and have their long holidays; but the only mention from the parenting expert of children’s needs coming first was that increased tuition time wouldn’t reduce our already-worrying rates of anxiety among young people. Eliminating homework might be a way of balancing things out.
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