A proposal to introduce a duvet days for universities
My investigation showed that half of my groupmates have sleep deprivation
problem, that’s why they ,apparently, attend third of our classes and miss loads of important basics ,without which they won’t be able to perform well in coming exams. There are two obvious ways to deal with this problem. First one is to move our lectures later in the day, but we already start from 1 pm to 2 pm, so I won’t consider this as a solution. Second way of dealing with sleep deprivation is to implement so called “duvet days”, basically this is the day you can stay at home, do your own things and do not attend lectures, the main difference from vacations is that it’s only for small group of people (from 4 to 6 in my opinion), during this days students ,who missed their sleep could return it back and then come back fresh and ready for the studying process. Of course, you could argue that some unscrupulous students are going to use it just to skip classes, but we are not in the kindergarten, if they don’t want to attend university – they wouldn’t, so I don’t see other cons of trying duvet days, for a start.