Directions for brainstorming:
- Stakeholders
- Long-term/short-term
- Mental health
- Physical health
- Nature of education
- Vicious cycle
- Side effects
- Alternative measures
- Cost-effectiveness
- Assumption/prerequisite (前設/先決條件)
- Ripple effect (漣漪效應)
Measure/policy: School hours delayed to 10am-5pm
Purpose: To make sure students can concentrate on lessons (the human brain does
not fully function in early morning)
Against:
1. Students’ cooperation (students, assumption, policy exploited): If our
school hours are changed, students will go to bed late since they don't need
to wake up early for school. They might still wake up immediately/shortly
before school starts. As a result, they will fail to concentrate during lessons
since their brains are not warmed up yet.
2. Delay in rest (students, health, vicious cycle, ripple effect): students will
arrive home late, have dinner and finish homework at a later time than
before. Their bedtime will be pushed back due to the new schedule.
3. Compressed time for extracurricular activities (students, all-rounded
development, mental health)
4. Parents' working schedule (parents, students): difficulty in
synchronising/catering for parents' working schedule - parents cannot bring
their children to school or help them get prepared for school.
5. Students are faced with traffic congestion during rush hour as they start
and end the school day (students, worsens delay in arriving home)
- Research has found that/shown that the human brain does not work to its
full extent/fully function in the morning.
- This has led to worries/concerns about the concentration of students during
lessons/students not being able to concentrate well during lessons, and this
may last up to several hours.
- 10am to 5pm so that students can concentrate well(result).
- Disagree with the current proposed policy, the main point/argument being
(signposting)that students might exploit the policy and (how?) wake up just a
bit earlier than the new starting hour of school.
First and foremost,if school hours are delayed from 10a.m. to 5p.m. students will
probably delay their sleeping schedule since they won’t change the times they
spend on sleeping. It is a bad idea to sleep too late since it will have detrimental
effects on our physical health. Delayed sleeping schedule may interfere with our
memory and our focus.In addiction, students might have failure to concentrate on
lessons.
Good morning principal, teachers and fellow students. Ever since our school was
established twenty years ago, our school hours have been from half past eight to
half past three in the afternoon.
- However, research has found that the human brain does not fully function
early in the morning, and this may last up to several hours. (problem of
current policy)
- In response to this, Should our school hours be changed to 10:00a.m to
5:00p.m., in order to make sure students can concentrate on lessons? (policy
-> result)
- I, as do my teammates, disagree with this policy. If school is to start later in
the morning, it may cause/lead to multiple issues for students, such as
__________________________. In order to not put/induce stress on them, the
starting hour should stay the same.
One of the biggest concerns about changing the school starting time is parents’
work schedules. When school starts at 8:00in the morning, most parents can see
their teens off to school before going to work. If school districts change start
times ,parents will not be able to drive their kids to school and still get to work
on time. This is a problem especially for parents of young children, as young kids
need supervision while getting ready for school and waiting for the school bus.
For teens, later school start times may lead to increased responsibility, as
parents may have to go to work before school starts. This means teens will have
to get themselves up, prepare breakfast and head to school on their own.
