From the Desk of Spinchat

"In designing a structured recess, they (schools) will sacrifice the notion of recess as an unstructured but supervised break that belongs to the child; that is, a time for the child to make a personal choice between sedentary, physical, creative, or social options." (AAP) I remember my time at school. We used to start at 8 o'clock sharp and end our day at half past 2 in the afternoon. During these six and half hours, we used to have 8 periods and 2 recesses.  First recess used to be just 15 minutes, after we 3 long periods, to eat quick snacks. Students used to bring packed lunches from home or were given lunch money so that they could buy samosas, chicken burgers, rolls, biscuits, chips and drinks from a small tuck shop located inside the premises of the school. Then it used to be back to academics, lectures, assignments. After two more periods of equal length, we would get another recess, this time full 30 minutes. Those 30 minutes were what we used to go to school ...

" The students are only at the receiving end of the curriculum and have no say or authority over the pace, mode of delivery and the content." By Staff Writer; Sameera Wajid (This article was published on https://ed-reforms.blogspot.com/) Education is the wholistic development of an individual; intellectually, morally, emotionally leading to an end result where the person becomes a socially responsible compassionate functional member of a society. Education is more than what any school can provide to the child, because education does not stop once the child steps out of the boundaries of the school.  Yet, in Pakistan a peculiar and curious trend is catching up; keeping curriculum a secret from the parents/families. The teachers are given curriculum guidelines as set by Cambridge, however the parents are not allowed to review the syllabus under the pretext that sharing the curriculum feeds into the parental competition, causes unnecessary stress to the st...