Oduok:

Sending kids to holiday lessons makes no sense.

Most of you will make your kids go to school till they become useless. You took them to school at age 3 and abandon them there. During long vacation you still send them to school. To do what?

Can't you spend time to bond with your kids? What exactly are they going to achieve in school during vacation? Vacation lesson only favour school owners, not you. Allow kids rest for God's sake.

If you should engage kids during long vacation then teach them skills. Enrol your kids in centres that they can learn practical computer usage, coding, programming, painting and decoration, catering, musical instruments. Let them learn martial art, how to shot guns, how to wrestle. Teach them something beyond pure academics.

If a school should organize long vacation class then it should gear towards extra curricula activities - debate, modelling, music concert, science fair, mini project. How would you call kids back to school during holiday to learn Math, English, Chemistry, Social studies, accounting, by same teachers that taught them during school period. What is the difference? If these teachers knew what to teach why didn't they do it during normal school session.

Education is beyond memorizing facts. Give your kids opportunity to develop and be better prepare for life.

Agreed!

Most schools would mandate the kids to come back for the extra murals, which of course leaves the parents no choice

sniperr007:


The idea of holiday lesson for parents is another way to ship their children out of the house

My opinion is rather than send to holiday lesson, send them to learn a skill, musical instruments, etiquette or go camping.

No be everything be academics

skills are far more expensive, maybe that is why parent dont do that.

We wastes too much time going to school to learn uselessx things that doesn't help us in the real world. Mshewwswwww

You mean that the people who designed the academic calender are stupid. The children need rest as well as the teachers. Overloading their little brain is not right. During our own time, long vacation was used to travel to the city for holidays for those in the rural areas and for those in the cities, it is time for them to travel to their villages for holiday as well. It is also time to help the parents at home and do some other extra curricular activities. During our time we never had holiday lessons neither did we have after school lessons yet many excelled in their chosen field, so what had changed? Even after school lesson is not necessary if the teachers know what they are doing. They use the school official hours to do their private business and charge students fees for after school lessons to teach what they should have taught them during school hours. Teachers please allow the students breath!!!!

Jewessgratitud3:
Now I know where the problem is coming from. Parents!!!!!... Allow us breath!!!!

You claim summer lessons are not important or beneficial now but tomorrow you'll go and start complaining to the schools that your wards are not doing well in their studies and threaten to withdraw them meanwhile you're here discouraging what will help the school to help your wards excel academically

If a child cannot read and understand basic English, how will he thrive in other extra curricular activities?
If he can't solve maths, how will he be able to do quick mental calculations during the so called activities? I don't get it!

Little wonder why we teach from morning till noon still nothing sticks and they can't retain much in their memory because all you parents do is let them play throughout after school and on weekends and they come the following day/week with empty brains. Please!!!


Your wards need this lessons so they don't forget the little they were able to gain before they vacated and all the money you spent the previous term doesn't go to waste. Now, you coming here to discourage this simply means you don't care about their academics which is the leverage and foundation any child needs to climb the ladder of success in a system that works.

I'm shocked to say the least. To think this is coming from 21century parents who know very well that the moral standards of the society has dropped so badly that children no longer have interest in school and all they want to do is play and do social media. Na wa o.

You can use weekends to send them for creative activities not this long summer Biko. Before one pikin go come dey tell me, Miss, I'm in number A.

Oduok:

Sending kids to holiday lessons makes no sense.

Most of you will make your kids go to school till they become useless. You took them to school at age 3 and abandon them there. During long vacation you still send them to school. To do what?

Can't you spend time to bond with your kids? What exactly are they going to achieve in school during vacation? Vacation lesson only favour school owners, not you. Allow kids rest for God's sake.

If you should engage kids during long vacation then teach them skills. Enrol your kids in centres that they can learn practical computer usage, coding, programming, painting and decoration, catering, musical instruments. Let them learn martial art, how to shot guns, how to wrestle. Teach them something beyond pure academics.

If a school should organize long vacation class then it should gear towards extra curricula activities - debate, modelling, music concert, science fair, mini project. How would you call kids back to school during holiday to learn Math, English, Chemistry, Social studies, accounting, by same teachers that taught them during school period. What is the difference? If these teachers knew what to teach why didn't they do it during normal school session.

Education is beyond memorizing facts. Give your kids opportunity to develop and be better prepare for life.

I can tell you that some new generation schools have some of the programs you mentioned in the holiday lesson.

lexy2014:


But 20th century parents didn't necessarily send their kids to holiday lesson before they could read and write

Says who? Were you there with them?

ChiefOloye:
Anyone who doesn't agree with this no get sense

We or those children will see

SoftP:
Send them to farm during holidays….

Many parents have no farm and live only as tenants in crowded yards where kids fight and bring them trouble when they leave them at home and go for work.

The first week he stayed at home, he played football with other kids in the street and came home with 3 leg injuries. Holiday classes works for us now. Just 3hrs in the day is not much.

This makes a lot of sense, couldn't agree with you more. I've make this argument many times in the past.

We travel to enjoy our holidays with our grandparents during our own time and we still earn excellent grades in school.

Oduok:

Sending kids to holiday lessons makes no sense.

Most of you will make your kids go to school till they become useless. You took them to school at age 3 and abandon them there. During long vacation you still send them to school. To do what?

Can't you spend time to bond with your kids? What exactly are they going to achieve in school during vacation? Vacation lesson only favour school owners, not you. Allow kids rest for God's sake.

If you should engage kids during long vacation then teach them skills. Enrol your kids in centres that they can learn practical computer usage, coding, programming, painting and decoration, catering, musical instruments. Let them learn martial art, how to shot guns, how to wrestle. Teach them something beyond pure academics.

If a school should organize long vacation class then it should gear towards extra curricula activities - debate, modelling, music concert, science fair, mini project. How would you call kids back to school during holiday to learn Math, English, Chemistry, Social studies, accounting, by same teachers that taught them during school period. What is the difference? If these teachers knew what to teach why didn't they do it during normal school session.

Education is beyond memorizing facts. Give your kids opportunity to develop and be better prepare for life.

Aghaclem67:
You mean that the people who designed the academic calender are stupid. The children need rest as well as the teachers. Overloading their little brain is not right. During our own time, long vacation was used to travel to the city for holidays for those in the rural areas and for those in the cities, it is time for them to travel to their villages for holiday as well. It is also time to help the parents at home and do some other extra curricular activities. During our time we never had holiday lessons neither did we have after school lessons yet many excelled in their chosen field, so what had changed? Even after school lesson is not necessary if the teachers know what they are doing. They use the school official hours to do their private business and charge students fees for after school lessons to teach what they should have taught them during school hours. Teachers please allow the students breath!!!!

Already ,teaching in private schools is a misfortune.
I cant bear it again.

The poser even mentioned teach the children to shoot guns for what say na america we dey?to join cultism or armed robberies?

Solsix:

When you born, you can decide on how to train them. Allow people who wants to send thiers for holiday lessons do.

You are right.Most of these bloggers have never cleaned a kids diaper let alone knowing what raising a kid means in a very corrupt digital world.

Solsix:

When you born, you can decide on how to train them. Allow people who wants to send thiers for holiday lessons do.

1. And how do you know he hasn't "born"?

2. He is not stopping any parent from sending their children to "summer lessons" but only airing his view which the bulk of respondents on this thread totally agree with him. Why take it personal?

3. It is called HOLIDAYS for a reason!

Let our kids breathe abeg! This ia why education in the developed world is way ahead of ours because a 5 year old in Nigeria is been forced to know the multiplication table while the 5 year old daughter of a family friend that moved to canada last year went back to coloring and painting. The difference is this, our education fosters ROTE LEAENING while the other engenders CREATIVITY!

The world needs CREATIVE THINKERS not ROBOTS!

Dem go Bleep children come earth because everybody dey do am. Time to play the role dem go dey complain dey duck.

BOSSkesh:
Children need time to develop, holidays are meant for children to refresh and play out their hearts
A child spends 3months or so for an academic term and is given like 3weeks+ for holiday,you’ll see Mumu parents still take that child that is worn out already looking for extra tutors
What will a child learn in 3 weeks that he didn’t learn in. 3 months
8 year olds are already in secondary school… doing what??
Na millennia parents sha

Leaving ur kids at home is even d worst.Remember we are in d era where every one is carrying big smart phone with all sorts of naughty stuff in it.Kids can fall prey to all sorts of abuse especially from today's teenagers with raging hormone.Cases of teenagers showing kids porn videos are rampant esp when their parents leave them at home and leave for work .
Except u take them to ur place of work, It's safer leaving kids to stay with fellow kids under the care of
a trained teacher than leaving them at the mercy of neighbours or to be wandering from one part of d streets to another during d holidays.
My dear. today's parenting is not easy.
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Like I told my students that I don't see reasons why some of them are coming for summer lesson as they didn't have challenges with their academics from previous session.

I only expect students that have challenges with their academics to come

Op.calm down and stop dabbling into What u know nothing about. First, holiday coaching is to prepare the children for the forthcoming academic session. Holiday lesson is for a.month so the first four topics of the new session is taught to the children so that when they resume it's easy to take off. Also, the holiday coaching is cheap and the parents see it as a way of getting the children occupied instead of disturbing the peace of the neighbourhood. Holiday lessons go as low as 1,000 for a month. Which skill acquisition centre will charge as low as that? Which instrument learning centre will charge u as low as that? Which tailor or hairdresser will collect a ridiculous amount of money from u to allow your child learn for a month? What you don't know is beyond you. Though you have some points but let's learn to be calming down. I come in peace.

Always on my mind.
Follow follow and copy copy wan kill some of us.
Neighbors no go let person rest.
They would make it look like the child is behind.


Hmmmmmmm!
OP you just spoke my mind to me openly as if Dem send you.


Let the kids bweet!

Furthermore, the holiday lesson is structured and flexible in some schools. Monday's to Thursdays. 9am till 1pm and there is room for practical activities on Wednesdays. That's in my own school though.

Exactly my thought before I saw this headline.

OP oil dey your head.

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Holiday lessons na rụbbish

My own is children need to learn how to swim. It is such an underated life skill.

They also need to learn how to make things with their hands

Jewessgratitud3:


Says who? Were you there with them?

No I wasn't. I was with them in the 22nd century.

Were you there with them?

Seniormanfeyi06:
Op.calm down and stop dabbling into What u know nothing about. First, holiday coaching is to prepare the children for the forthcoming academic session. Holiday lesson is for a.month so the first four topics of the new session is taught to the children so that when they resume it's easy to take off. Also, the holiday coaching is cheap and the parents see it as a way of getting the children occupied instead of disturbing the peace of the neighbourhood. Holiday lessons go as low as 1,000 for a month. Which skill acquisition centre will charge as low as that? Which instrument learning centre will charge u as low as that? Which tailor or hairdresser will collect a ridiculous amount of money from u to allow your child learn for a month? What you don't know is beyond you. Though you have some points but let's learn to be calming down. I come in peace.

What makes you think he knows nothing about the subject matter?

Jewessgratitud3:
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Just say u r protecting Ur interests, instead of this epistle 😏

Oduok:

Sending kids to holiday lessons makes no sense.

Most of you will make your kids go to school till they become useless. You took them to school at age 3 and abandon them there. During long vacation you still send them to school. To do what?

Can't you spend time to bond with your kids? What exactly are they going to achieve in school during vacation? Vacation lesson only favour school owners, not you. Allow kids rest for God's sake.

If you should engage kids during long vacation then teach them skills. Enrol your kids in centres that they can learn practical computer usage, coding, programming, painting and decoration, catering, musical instruments. Let them learn martial art, how to shot guns, how to wrestle. Teach them something beyond pure academics.

If a school should organize long vacation class then it should gear towards extra curricula activities - debate, modelling, music concert, science fair, mini project. How would you call kids back to school during holiday to learn Math, English, Chemistry, Social studies, accounting, by same teachers that taught them during school period. What is the difference? If these teachers knew what to teach why didn't they do it during normal school session.

Education is beyond memorizing facts. Give your kids opportunity to develop and be better prepare for life.

God bless you real good for this.

Tegc23t:
:

If I slap you.

Thief!

Oduok:

Sending kids to holiday lessons makes no sense.

Most of you will make your kids go to school till they become useless. You took them to school at age 3 and abandon them there. During long vacation you still send them to school. To do what?

Can't you spend time to bond with your kids? What exactly are they going to achieve in school during vacation? Vacation lesson only favour school owners, not you. Allow kids rest for God's sake.

If you should engage kids during long vacation then teach them skills. Enrol your kids in centres that they can learn practical computer usage, coding, programming, painting and decoration, catering, musical instruments. Let them learn martial art, how to shot guns, how to wrestle. Teach them something beyond pure academics.

If a school should organize long vacation class then it should gear towards extra curricula activities - debate, modelling, music concert, science fair, mini project. How would you call kids back to school during holiday to learn Math, English, Chemistry, Social studies, accounting, by same teachers that taught them during school period. What is the difference? If these teachers knew what to teach why didn't they do it during normal school session.

Education is beyond memorizing facts. Give your kids opportunity to develop and be better prepare for life.

best post I e read this year, OP shares same thought with me, even the normal evening lesson that schools conduct after 2pm normal closing time, my children won't smell it. If a child stays in class from 8am to 2pm, whatever you're teaching the child beyond that time is just a waste of time cos the brain needs to hybernate and start again. I will register them to learn skills and afford them opportunities to enhance and discover talent