Last night I found out something interesting about the two high school students (equivalent to grade 10 students in Canada) I teach on Friday. I'm not talking about how I managed to keep them relatively awake through class either (typically they're dead tired and on the verge of falling asleep). It's that they were born two weeks apart. One's birthday is January 28th and the others birthday is on February 11th. I suppose they're aware of that as they've been attending classes together at our English school for at least 5 years.
As for their level of fatigue late on a Friday evening: that's to be expected. From what I understand they're going to school virtually every day of the week. Not only do they go in to attend classes but they also go in on weekends for a handful of other activities. For example, one of my students showed up early for the class I teach, which starts at 7:45pm, because club activities wound up early. I believe they usually come in after a whole day of classes and club activities. I suspect they don't get home for dinner because they usually show up wearing their school uniforms and carrying their school work. The junior high school students I taught (I no longer teach them on account of a change to my schedule) were roughly in the same boat. One kid was always on the verge of falling asleep one me. One night I just let him pass out.
Oh yeah...my secret weapon for keeping the high school kids awake: Take no Ko no Sato chocolates. (^_^)
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