A rant on school times

When was the last time anyone looked seriously at when school starts and finishes? For as long as I can remember school started around 8.30 – 9.00 (and I’m talking MY primary school days here folks) and finished around 3.15. But of course in those ancient times, the majority of families had stay-at-homes mums.

Since then of course our society has changed substantially. Now a majority of women continue to work while they raise a family. And now of course we see the Federal Government introducing laws to make single mums go back to work (15 hours a week when their youngest child turns 8). You will gain harder and cialis 5mg bigger erections for enjoying enhanced sexual pleasure with your female. Ashwagandha or Indian ginseng a the best sildenafil great PE natural remedy. To initialize the mechanism of Sildenafil purchase generic cialis Citrate, the user should be sexually stimulated to develop an erection. Medical researchers have actually found a connection viagra on line cheap between gum health and impotemnce. Now unless those mums can find part-time work between the hours of 9 and 3 (really 2.30 so they can get to the school lets be honest), they will have to spend money on childcare.

And we’re not talking about the school holidays – this is normal term time right?

It occurs to me that this is not an efficient use of our society’s resources and that schools need to play a part in this. I know that teachers have to do class preparation and many of them – particularly in the higher grades have precious little time to prepare lessons – but surely there could be a roster – like they have at lunchtimes where one or two in a school could supervise the playgrounds for the half hour before school.

Surely it would not be too difficult for schools to organise supervised homework time after school – perhaps the teachers could use the time to prepare lessons or mark tests? They could even have organised sport or again supervised playtime.

Extend the hours from 8 to 5 and I think the whole of society would benefit.

Yes I can hear the teacher’s union howling from here – and when I get 12 weeks holiday a year I’ll start listening!

Oh, you can tell that my husband is going back to work next week and the juggle begins again?? 🙂