As a student, exercise is part of their daily life activity. Through the exercise, they can learn how to communicate properly with their teammates, or train themselves into a healthier body...etc. They are lots of benefits for a student doing exercise, just like what Cheshire Academy does to their students. At Cheshire Academy, students are required to participate in three season afternoon activities. From the schools point of view, they say it is good for students because this not only force students to get out from their electronic products, but also improve their social skill that might use for the future. Such as leadership, teamwork, responsibility...etc. However, not all the students agree with the school. They think there should not be afternoon activities. Instead of wasting time on the turf, they would like to do their homework and enjoy the rest of the day. I agree with both sides opinion, so I combine both of them and come up with a conclusion. Students at Cheshire Academy should participate in three seasons of afternoon activities, but they should have the flexibility to decide the time for exercise each day. If they have a specific reason to be excused, so they could have more balance time between their school works and sports.
Some students might think “What is the reason for us to stay under the sun and do something that will make them sweat all their body?” According to the students I interview from Vdp, most of them would like to spend their afternoon inside the building but not going outside for exercise.(Vdp interview) I used to have the same opinion with them, then I realize exercise is very important for a teenager. From the Kidshealth.org, they mention that "teenager could be consider as the most important period of time for one person to growth."(Kidshealth.org) This mean if teenagers can get enough exercise during their growth period, it will help themselves to have a healthier life and stronger body. Beside getting a stronger and healthy body, they also can learn some social skills that might be helpful during their college years or when they go to work. People always think they will only learn these skills from their parents, but sometimes we can learn from our teachers or coaches too. Such as learning teamwork and communicate when I play soccer with other players. In a conclude, exercise is very important for students to have a healthy body and to learn social skill for the life.
Although exercise is a very important part for one student at their teenager period, but the class work are also important for them. If they only focus on sports and didn't take school works seriously, they might get a bad score on it; it will cause some negative effects when they apply colleges or job hunting. That is why I suggest students should have the flexibility to decide their practice time each day. For example, if one students having over five essays for homework tonight, they can ask their coach to have a day off to finish their homework instead of stay up until three o’clock in the morning. It is very reasonable for students and coaches, because there are many situations where students asking to have less practices time due to the homework they have. However, most of the time the coach don't accept this kind of excuse, and this always end up with those students are force to stay up late to finish their homeworks and nod during the class next day. If students can decide the practice time they day, these kind of stay up late problems will be reduce in certain amount of number.
One problems that might occur if we publish this policy is students might skip the practice just because they don’t want to get out and do their activity. That is why there are some rules for students need to follow in order to excuse their afternoon activities. For students, they will be required to fill out a form on internet and turn it in before 24 hours, which mean a day before the practice. It include what is the activity he/she do, reason, how long should the practice time be on that day. After they done with it, the excuse will need to be approve by a teacher in the community life office. They will go on your portal and check the homeworks you have, then decide whether you could excuse the activity or not. This will make sure students will not excuse their activities with no reason and no one notice about it. To make this policy success, school should keep an eye on all students requests, so there won't be anyone skip their activity with no proper reason.
There are lots of benefits for students having the flexibility to change their practice time each day. Not only to having balance time between the school works and sport, but also learning self management on their own free time. If they know themselves can not able to finish their homework before lights out, the form will be their best friends so they would able to spend more time on their works instead of sport. While everything looks perfect, but this policy still need to get more support from the students and coaches. All of these changes is to make students having less pressure on their school work, in the same time, can have the chance to enjoy the afternoon activities that school provide.
1. Vdp interview, 30/3/2015
2. Kidshealth.org, exercise for teenager, 31/3/2015
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