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Extended Day, Extended Learning after School Programming to Support Positive Student Development |
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PP: 339-346 |
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Sabah Alzahrani,
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| Students should not stop learning and developing their academic, and emotional- social skills at the end of the school day. The early stages of a childs life, which are described by human development researchers as ‘Formative Years’ (Verige,2010), are particularly sensitive and can affect the rest of the childs life as we know. Therefore, if in these early stages of the childs life, the child receives adequate supports for his or her moral and socialemotional development, it will have a positive impact on the psyche and the future of the child and his or her engagement in school and the broader community. The school has the largest role because the student spends most of his or her time in the school. The student must feel safe at school and beyond.
In Saudi Arabia at the end of the school day, students are expected to go directly to their homes. Many of them, however, remain in school and teachers collect the remaining students in the school yard and they remain bored waiting for their parents. Parents may be late to come to school to take their children for several reasons, such as parental engagement in jobs ends late in the day or having important appointments in hospitals or elsewhere, or that the work of the father or mother or both in a remote area and they go a long distance to school. This forces a number of teachers and school staff to stay with the students to supervise to them, causing delays in the return of their teachers as well. Also, the older students in middle or high school may go out of school and do not go directly to their homes, and they may be unsupervised in the streets and neighborhoods until their parents return home. Some parents allow a private driver to come and take their child and are allowed to stay alone with a nanny. Unfortunately, the delay of students in school hinders them from returning to lunch in time and performing their homework. They also disrupt their teachers who have to stay with them.
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