Don’t change school day
From: Lorna Macdonald, Holmfirth.
I AM in complete agreement with Gillian Anderson (The Yorkshire Post, February 28). Do young people think that future employers will do the same and say “If you are feeling tired you can start work an hour later dear?”
I don’t think so! Why on earth do the Government and the powers-that-be want to change or alter things that have worked perfectly well for hundreds of years? I passed exams for grammar school, but didn’t choose to go.
When I was 12, my dancing teacher arranged an audition for me to be one of the babes in the Babes in the Wood pantomime.
Sadly Dad thought I was too young to be away from home for such a long time (20 weeks or so).
However I knew I would have the opportunity again at 14, and I did. We were still treated as children, we stayed in digs together with a matron to care for us.
We walked to the theatre, had three weeks of rehearsal from 9am until 4pm, then a long run of doing two shows a day.
We were still up in the morning by 8am and it was 10.30pm before we left the theatre to walk home, but I don’t ever remember feeling or saying we were tired.
Sundays we spent outdoors, weather permitting, usually exploring Glasgow and its lovely Kelvin Park. Of course we weren’t sitting in front of a TV or computer screen until all hours.