I am sitting in school on a Friday afternoon during the second week of the school holidays. Why? Waiting for students to hand in their files and books. Will they turn up? I don't think so. Why do I wait? In the wild hope that some of them will remember. I have been asking for the books and files for the past two weeks. And yet some of them when asked today tell me they will give it to me on Monday. I do not understand how this can happen. I really don't.
Some of them are still having fun thinking there is still time. You keep telling them to wake up their ideas but they do not. What they do not realise is that if they start their revision too late, they will not have the energy to study for long periods. Just like a body needs conditioning to get fit, the brain needs to get used to increased activity. You cannot cram a lot of information into the brain and think that is will be able to process all that information quickly. The brain will break down, headaches appear and the body shuts down. And what if this happens during the o levels? Welll I can watch as a bystander because at some point enough is enough. I cannot keep nagging at them.