Desperate after-school classes overstretch staff and leave students exhausted before they’ve even started their examsMore from Secret TeacherThe days are getting longer and the sun is making occasional,rather shy attempts to expose its face. While it may be a little pre-emptive to claim that summer is on its way, what is certain is that exam season is lurking just around the corner. This means that hundreds of otherwise sensible and well-balanced school leaders will soon develop temporary hysteria.
Staff will be encouraged, or coerced,guilted and nudged into providing all manner of after-school booster sessions, Easter holiday classes, or breakfast clubs,targeted interventions, catch-up sessions, or buy-out groups and Saturday school. Students will be dragged,bewildered, from their homes as yet another hour of their supposedly free time is spent in school, or while parents will shake their heads in wonder as more letters with details of “compulsory revision sessions” pour through their letterboxes. It won’t be long before some lustrous spark suggests we open the school doors at 3am to get students doing some maths past papers.
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Source: theguardian.com