OUR VIEW: Monday Classes on Tuesday?
Presidents Day is Monday, and with it will come a switch in classes. It seems harmless at arm’s length. Class schedules won’t conflict; students just pretend Tuesday is Monday.
For some reason, though, people in the college world have it in their minds that students have nothing else going on in their lives but school. In an ideal situation, that would be the case. School would get first and foremost attention and studying would have No. 1 priority.
Unfortunately for most students, this isn’t the case. Besides classes, schedules are crammed with jobs, family and other responsibilities. Many students work a set schedule, which under regular circumstances doesn’t conflict with classes.
When Monday’s schedule is put onto Tuesday, it affects other aspects of the day, like work shifts, caring for children or extra curricular activities.
Changing the schedule seems like a more complicated answer to something that really isn’t that big of a problem. Missing one more Monday, Wednesday and Friday class than a Tuesday class is not worth forcing people to completely rearrange their schedules.