Tomorrow is Saturday and although most of us get to sleep in, Theo has to go to School as many French teenagers. Of all the things wrong with the French education system this is probably one of the most annoying, least useful and easiest to fix. In New Zealand a company has tested the 4 day work week which resulted in a boost in productivity and happier employees. In Seattle they moved the start of the school day from 7:45 to 8:45 AM (keeping the same number of hours at school overall) teenagers got 35 minutes extra sleep and overall grades improved. It is scientific fact that teenagers who go through a lot of biological change between 13 and 18 tend to stay up late and therefore would benefit from a later start. So what do we do in France ? We have a 6 day week and school starts at 8AM! If we need proof of the insanity of administrative thinking this is it. Nobody has ever come up with a rational explanation as to why school should start at 8 or how Saturday morning classes make any sense.
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