It's saddening how much the people in charge of education in our governments actually know or care about what goes in inside and around our schools.
The British Columbia Minister of Education, Christie Clarke, has recently been pushing forward an idea to create a "shared lunch period" for highschool students. Thanks Christie, but no thanks. With the recent joined graduation of gr.10 and gr.9 students from middleschool, our highschools are already packed. This year, the gr.9's at my school was allocated the same C block lunch to make the transition from middle school to highschool "easier". To put it politely, it was hell -- the bored teens left the hallways cluttered and noisy, the cafeteria an ant-hill, and our heads aching. And this is on a nice sunny day when there are MOBS of gr.9's hanging around outside the building. Now you want all twenty-one hundred students out AT ONCE? You can take that idea and shove it I say.
Oh, did I mention that she wants to make PE madetory for gr.11 and gr.12 students as well?
I am for physical fitness as much as the next guy, but trying selling that idea to students who are already going from 8am to 4pm WITHOUT an "actual" lunch block trying to get as far as they can to lighten the load on their last year, or even just trying to take enough courses to qualify for a certain department at university while still doing the things they enjoy, like music.
Speaking of music, our beloved Minister of Education was reported to have abruptly walked out of a recent concert that was performed specifically for the head figures of our school district, in the middle of a song. :blink: Guess students taking many hours of valuable time out of their schedule that could have been spent resting or studying wasn't enough interest to her. Well, fair trade I guess: us students aren't interested in her ideas either. <_<
The British Columbia Minister of Education, Christie Clarke, has recently been pushing forward an idea to create a "shared lunch period" for highschool students. Thanks Christie, but no thanks. With the recent joined graduation of gr.10 and gr.9 students from middleschool, our highschools are already packed. This year, the gr.9's at my school was allocated the same C block lunch to make the transition from middle school to highschool "easier". To put it politely, it was hell -- the bored teens left the hallways cluttered and noisy, the cafeteria an ant-hill, and our heads aching. And this is on a nice sunny day when there are MOBS of gr.9's hanging around outside the building. Now you want all twenty-one hundred students out AT ONCE? You can take that idea and shove it I say.
Oh, did I mention that she wants to make PE madetory for gr.11 and gr.12 students as well?
I am for physical fitness as much as the next guy, but trying selling that idea to students who are already going from 8am to 4pm WITHOUT an "actual" lunch block trying to get as far as they can to lighten the load on their last year, or even just trying to take enough courses to qualify for a certain department at university while still doing the things they enjoy, like music.
Speaking of music, our beloved Minister of Education was reported to have abruptly walked out of a recent concert that was performed specifically for the head figures of our school district, in the middle of a song. :blink: Guess students taking many hours of valuable time out of their schedule that could have been spent resting or studying wasn't enough interest to her. Well, fair trade I guess: us students aren't interested in her ideas either. <_<