To the Editor:
A school district is preparing to add four Wellness Days to the school calendar giving students days away from academic rigor and a chance to prioritize their well-being. They feel this will reduce the stress on students in school and give them time to regroup. The school calendar already includes holidays, three vacation periods, and weeks off every summer.
Schools are supposed to help educate and prepare students for the stressful adult world which includes being part of the work force.
Grads face the adult world which includes being employed in a forty-hour week with a two-week vacation period. The work force makes demands on their employees. Employees are required to show up and put in a full working day. They are sometimes faced with: deadlines, writing reports, working short staffed and other job related requirements.
Wellness Days are not going to help them. Giving students the tools they need to help them with time management will. Introducing students to time management skills will help them not only in school but when they are faced with a full time forty-hour week position.
Wellness Days will not help our youth; they will only handicap them for the future.
Carole A. David
Northborough
