Why Slash Classes on Saturdays: A Perspective

When most of the Civil Servants were exempted from going to office on Saturdays, hands were raised in agreement. Now, with talks of doing away with classes on Saturdays around eyebrows were raised by most people on social medias except by those in schools.
To keep the skepticism at bay here are some logical explanations on why Saturdays should be Sunday for schools.

1. Relaxation from Academic Fatigue
Academic fatigue for both teachers and students as a result of engaging in teaching-learning from Monday till Saturday seriously injure the achievement and enthuasim. Considerable weight of job-hatred is also induced by academic fatigue. It will be sound policy to have enough leisure time.

2. Learning is not only schooling business
Our intuitions are wrongly framed to associate all learning to schooling. This association should be wiped off by the fact that learning is also a business beyond schooling. Learning is Jigsaw puzzle and there are missing links because we compel students to spend too much time in school. Family values, community wisdom and social experiences are few missing links from the Jigsaw puzzle. To find those missing links in their learning, it will be wise move to allow students to explore life beyond schooling. Doing away with classes on Saturdays may suffice this purpose.

3. Learning is not limited to curricular lessons and academic matter
Learning is wholesome. Curricular lessons and academic matters are few methods to learning. Fumming oneself with books from dawn till dusk from Monday till Saturday does not replicate to wholesome attainment of learning. The fixed teaching schedules from Monday till Saturday dominanted by classroom-based seatwork should gradually give way to open and flexible learning beyond the walls of books. Few means to such openiess of education is cultural trips and field excursions and Saturdays can be booked for such edutainments.

4. Less is More
'Less is more' aphorism is popularly used to describe best education systems, Finnish Education System to name one. Spending more time in school and classrooms does not translate to better learning. In most of the Western countries where education is considered best by current standard schools have relatively and comparatively less instructional hours. This means teacher's workload will be reduced.  Plans, instructions and lessons delivery will get more focus and improvement.
With less instructional hours curriculum developers must cut the craps. The rubbish information in curriculum will shed off either at local or national level. The relevancy of curriculum will be naturally validated by need of time. This means students will have less academic burden baggage to bear. Students will be academically and psychologically sound.

5. Engaging and Research Based Learning
Inquiry learning and learning through research is slowly taking root in our education system. By doing away normal classes on Saturdays, students can engage in research and self regulated works. Students must be exposed to taste of greener grass on other side of classroom to have fair share of experience and wisdom that is not taugt in classrooms. Teachers will have time for research, reading, and professional development sessions.

6. Welfare of Teachers
Obligation to fulfill targets of Individual Work Plan (IWP) turned us to workaholic zombies. This obligation has made teachers work beyond the limit that may or may not have helped the organization. We have turned ourselves to workaholic zombies and we are no more human being. We are "human doing."   This unscrupulous  act of human doing resulted to negligence of another work plan. FWP. (FWP) is Family Work Plan, an integral aspect of humanity. Don't be surprised, most teachers reach home late on working days that shorten family time. It will be nothing short of fairness to slash Saturdays to give some break to teachers to dedicate time for family affairs.
There is yet another unplanned obligation of life; The Health. Teachers normally visit hospitals by availing casual leave and because we have to book ten days of casual leaves for many functions, visiting hospital must first pass the benchmark of number of casual days left. We have summer and winter holidays to visit hospitals, but that does not guarantee good health during academic year. Slashing Saturdays could thus save teachers.

If you're not convinced yet, it's just the matter of how we look at it.