I am concerned about the mental health of people who think that this outrageous statement is a reality. Children should not have to spend their birthday at school doing schoolwork, when they could be spending time with their whanau who have come from far away to spend time with their relatives on their birthday. Some children think that their birthday is a special occasion, and they want to spend it at home, instead of at school. If we follow this statement to the word, then we would have kids who have birthdays in the holidays and on weekends going to school when no one is there.
Children might like to spend their birthday with family.
Children my age often have families that live far away that come to see them on their birthday. If your child is at school on their birthday, then they might miss out on seeing their family that has come to see them. Some children (like myself) have parents that like to take their children out to lunch on their birthday, so how are they supposed to take their kid to lunch when they’re at school. In your lifetime, you spend 13 years at school, which is 2600 days at school. If you take 13 days off of that total, you are left with 2587, which is still plenty of time for you to learn.
Some children believe a birthday is a special event.
If you are spending 13 years of your childhood at school, you only get 13 birthdays in that very long amount of time, only 13! Any child would think that this is outrageous and should have their birthday celebrated at home. Children may only get to see their relatives on their birthdays and Christmas, which would be horrible in my opinion. In your childhood, you only get about 13 birthdays where you get stuff that you want. After that it’s just stuff that you need, not want.
If your birthday is on a weekend or holiday, you can’t go to school
If your birthday is in the holidays then you are going to have to go to school, when nobody is there, and that’s pointless. It’s not fair, having to go to school in the holidays and on the weekend, when we could be playing instead of going to school.
Blake