School on Saturdays !!!

Today I happen to pass thru my old School, Don Bosco, Perambur (where I did my primary) and was shocked to see students at the School ! Shocked because while I used to study there we never had schools on Saturdays . Infact I used to love the fact that I did not have schools on Saturdays when almost all my friends from other Schools had to go to School !

When I changed Schools in my 6th standard to CTTE I had to undergo the pain of going to school on Saturdays , which did not make any sense to me. I never appreciated Schools on a Saturday , bcos they used to have just half a day which essentially meant some 4 periods, which put together would agregate some 3.5 hrs ... but bcos of this 3.5 hours at school, you end up waking up early (never a tough thing for me though !!) travel to your School, come back during the hot afternoon , these things drain your energy and you have little left for anything for the day.

But there were some good things as well , one we got to play cricket matches right after school till the evening (that is If we were lucky enough to get a place in the Ground ) , two some of our friends who had GFs would have had some more time to spend with them (unfortunately I never had any luck on this regard while at School ..... wait a minute .... even at College .. What a pity ? ) and three, some of our friends even dared to go to Movies after the half-a-day school (I have to accept that I never had the courage for that while at School ... infact I wanted to break that so badly, that I went for a movie on the very first Saturday after joining college :) )

But essentially I am against having Schools on a Saturday, bcos I think that children need more free time to be more creative and ofcourse they need the extra time for involving in activities other than studies ... Also I don't know what the School would achieve in that half a day of School when they have five full days with them !!!

And ofcourse one more good thing about having a School on a Saturday was Students were allowed to wear Color Dresses (yeah thats what we used to call any other dress other than the School uniforms !! ) ... But .. But .. But my School did not allow this either !!! so I had to wear black & white dress even on Saturdays !!!