Re:I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper
by arrowsmith on Monday December 16, 2024 @06:54AM
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I don't think it's "better" to make kids check a multitude of ever-changing apps and screens just to find out their timetable for the day.
What on earth is the point? When I was a kid we just had the same timetable repeating every week. It changed once a year, at the beginning of the academic year, meaning that within a few weeks I knew it from memory and didn't need to keep looking it up.
In the extremely rare event that things deviated from the timetable, the school found a way to tell us. It's not hard to convey a message to a group of students when you know exactly which room they'll physically be in at any given moment; another advantage of a fixed timetable.
If the school can't accomplish such basic tasks as scheduling a simple timetable, that's the adults' problem, not the children's.
What on earth is the point? When I was a kid we just had the same timetable repeating every week. It changed once a year, at the beginning of the academic year, meaning that within a few weeks I knew it from memory and didn't need to keep looking it up.
In the extremely rare event that things deviated from the timetable, the school found a way to tell us. It's not hard to convey a message to a group of students when you know exactly which room they'll physically be in at any given moment; another advantage of a fixed timetable.
If the school can't accomplish such basic tasks as scheduling a simple timetable, that's the adults' problem, not the children's.