Evaluation… who needs it?
I found this article on Yahoo News today. I subscribe to a Youth Specialties update, which includes links to interesting internet articles that deal with the lives and spirituality of teenagers.
It produces some pretty compelling information on how teenagers don’t function at their best early in the morning.
Shock! Gasp! Horror!
Intrigued? First time you ever heard something like this? It shouldn’t take a scientific study to prove that. We already know it. However, let’s look at when schools start, and when high school students need to catch the bus. Here in Baton Rouge, many are on the bus before 6:30. No, that’s not a typo. I said before 6:30. AM. They are sharing buses with elementarly schools, and need to finish in time to pick up elementary kids, who would actually function well at those early hours.
So, I read this, asking why we don’t evaluate this stuff more often? Why don’t we look at what it would take to be more effective, rather than just do things they way we’ve always done them? Baton Rouge public school scores are rather low, which I believe is due to many factors, but starting so stinking definately isn’t helping anybody.
We constantly need to be evaluating why we do things the way we do. Sometimes the situations change, and other times the original plan wasn’t very thought-out in the first place.
And ending on another “evaluation” note-
Why do we plan our weekly worship service at 8:15 AM?!!!