Five-day week needs review

Five-day week needs review

From Media Indonesia

The government's plan for a five-day school week needs to be reconsidered. Ours is a tropical country where one gets tired easily at work and in school. Hence will the school children be able to absorb all their lessons from morning and now, until the evening?

Moreover, how many children who still live in poverty will have to endure more time living and studying in cramped, small houses with their families?

I am not an educated man but I really do not understand the purpose of the plan nor can I grasp the explanation given by educators and intellectuals. However, I learned from the newspapers that it has already been implemented in certain regions.

I think we should test the plan beforehand as they do in advanced countries.

M.S. WIBOWO

Jakarta