By Kehinde Oluwatayo

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Parents have been advised to allow their children to relax, enjoy their holiday and prepare against the next session instead of pushing them to holiday lesson.
Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools in Ondo State, Comrade Tajudeen Balogun who gave the advice during an interview with The Hope said the holiday is too short to overload children’s brain.
Balogun said their brain is too tender to be overloaded adding that overloading of the brain can result in brain tumor.
He said most parents that encourage schools to organise holidays are only looking for where to keep their children while searching for money.
He added that most private schools organise holiday lessons to rake in more fund and use the avenue to snatch students from other schools who may come for lesson in their school.
“The best thing that parents can do now is to allow children to relax. If they have access to the list of books for the next academic session, let them buy so that the children can go through some of them in preparation for the real work when they resume.
“I am an apostle of let children enjoy their holiday. For me when the holiday was even a normal one, I allow my children to travel, visit people, in fact, I would personally take them there and by the time they would return, they would have learned new things.
“The bottom line is that government is now trying to bridge the gap between the state academic calendar and that of some states and even that of federal government who cancelled the third term, so that it can return to normal school calendar that was altered as a result of COVID 19.
“By the time we resume for second term in the next session, our calendar would have matched that of others. So parents should allow their children to relax and enjoy the holiday”, he said.