[Jan Fisher]

A Catholic school in NSW has sparked a heated debate about proposing a four-day week for senior students.

Surprisingly, parents are welcoming the proposal, that would see students in years 11 and 12 learn and work from home on Mondays.

They tried this at a school near me, and let’s just say the parents were less than pleased.
Fair enough. It was a pricey private school, and those parents deserved a good bang for the buck in my opinion.

The students’ day off was Wednesday, and I have it on good authority that turned into a hangover day as most went out partying on Tuesday night.

Probably not the productive study day the school was hoping for.

One parent of the NSW Catholic school, Tonia Pezzella Krebs, told Guardian Australia she trusted the school and did not believe some media reports of parents criticising the changes.

“I welcome any new ideas. In this world we must all evolve, yet education is often stuck in the dark ages,” she said.

“I have total faith in the school to do the right thing by my children.”

Good for her.

What do you think? Should students have a ‘study day’?

[Jacka]

I really have no idea in which direction the world is traveling these days. A four-day school week, this is really a priority for the generation that can’t add up, can’t spell, can’t read and can’t write. I’m still trying to work out which is the biggest problem, the Administrators (The various Education Departments around Australia), the semi uneducated teachers,the undisciplined children, or the parents, who can’t wait to dump their children daily into kindergarten, childcare or school. If anything children should be spending more productive time at school. I believe the various Education Departments are pushing this trend as they cannot supply teachers anymore. Who would want to be a teacher these days with the totally undisciplined children and the more undisciplined parents. JACKA.

[stevo]

Well said Jacka,
To me it appears like the teachers are indoctrinating the students more than educating them.
We should look at the education systems of countries like South Korea, they value education, something which is very much lacking here.

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