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You get to your first class around 7:20. Say it?’s something like Algebra or a foreign language or something that requires you full attention. Are you thinking about your class work or are you thinking about how to not get caught catching 40 winks? Now let?’s say you are one of the chosen ones that has to eat lunch at 10:00. This has to last you until dinner. Have any of you ever sat through the lunch periods at your kid?’s school? Trust me, it?’s not something you would find conducive to a healthy lifestyle.
After school you have to go to practice for your sport. You are already tired and hungry. You practice until, say 5:00. Then you have to wait for your parent, who gets off work at 5 to come pick you up. Some of the lucky ones get picked up as early as 5:30. Some kids are industrious enough to spend this down time doing homework. Some are not. You get home around 6. Time for parent to get dinner started. Time for you to shower or work on homework or something. Dinner is at 7. You have to help clean up, look after your younger sibling, do more homework and maybe practice your instrument or whatever. Soon enough it is after 9:00. You have to find time for social activities. You have to get ready for tomorrow. You have to live your life a little. Then you look at the clock and it is after 10. You had hoped to be in bed by 9 at the latest because you?’re exhausted but too late for that.
The alarm goes off and it?’s 5 a.m. and you start all over again. Tonight you have a game. It?’s away. You have to do almost everything you did yesterday but factor in the bus ride to and from the game and you know you won?’t be home until almost 9 and you still have homework and a big test tomorrow.
OK, enough of my drama. For those of you with kids in the middle to senior high grades, you know the drill. The kids adapt and the family adapts. However, those adaptations come at a price. A price of sacrifice. What are the sacrifices? Sleep? Grades? Healthy eating?
PLSD has one of the highest extracurricular participation of students you ever heard of in spite of the exorbitant pay to play fees that the board promised (but lied) would go away after we passed the levy about 5 or 6 levies ago. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the state report cards will decline. Something has to give. Grades will slip. Healthy habits will slip. Truancy will rise as will disciplinary issues. We live in a generation of ?“super kids?”. But even Superman had a weakness.
By Central Dad
You get to your first class around 7:20. Say it?’s something like Algebra or a foreign language or something that requires you full attention. Are you thinking about your class work or are you thinking about how to not get caught catching 40 winks? Now let?’s say you are one of the chosen ones that has to eat lunch at 10:00. This has to last you until dinner. Have any of you ever sat through the lunch periods at your kid?’s school? Trust me, it?’s not something you would find conducive to a healthy lifestyle.
After school you have to go to practice for your sport. You are already tired and hungry. You practice until, say 5:00. Then you have to wait for your parent, who gets off work at 5 to come pick you up. Some of the lucky ones get picked up as early as 5:30. Some kids are industrious enough to spend this down time doing homework. Some are not. You get home around 6. Time for parent to get dinner started. Time for you to shower or work on homework or something. Dinner is at 7. You have to help clean up, look after your younger sibling, do more homework and maybe practice your instrument or whatever. Soon enough it is after 9:00. You have to find time for social activities. You have to get ready for tomorrow. You have to live your life a little. Then you look at the clock and it is after 10. You had hoped to be in bed by 9 at the latest because you?’re exhausted but too late for that.
The alarm goes off and it?’s 5 a.m. and you start all over again. Tonight you have a game. It?’s away. You have to do almost everything you did yesterday but factor in the bus ride to and from the game and you know you won?’t be home until almost 9 and you still have homework and a big test tomorrow.
OK, enough of my drama. For those of you with kids in the middle to senior high grades, you know the drill. The kids adapt and the family adapts. However, those adaptations come at a price. A price of sacrifice. What are the sacrifices? Sleep? Grades? Healthy eating?
PLSD has one of the highest extracurricular participation of students you ever heard of in spite of the exorbitant pay to play fees that the board promised (but lied) would go away after we passed the levy about 5 or 6 levies ago. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the state report cards will decline. Something has to give. Grades will slip. Healthy habits will slip. Truancy will rise as will disciplinary issues. We live in a generation of ?“super kids?”. But even Superman had a weakness.
By Central Dad
