Why I Despise Michael Gove's Education Policies

Over the last week I have viewed a series of interviews and read various articles which all associate to Michael Gove ambitions to refine the standard of state schools. He has claimed that the private schools in England currently have to offer are the best independant schools in the world, yet why shouldn't our state schools be just as good? One of the articles by the daily mirror mentioned Michael Gove believes that children should be having detentions, (as if we don't already!) and teachers should be more stern with their students.Although there have been many surveys providing the statistics/evidence that private schools tend to do better at GCSE than public, I think its highly unreasonable to make children from the age of 11 arrive at school for 7 am-5pm(10 hours!-Times 5 is fifty hours a week, almost equvalent of a lawyers timetable!) From my own experience, even waking up at 7 is a struggle; Its praticaly still night time during winter and the moon is still shining through my bedroom blinds. So arriving at school in the dark would be an awful lifestyle for me, and the same opinion would probably apply to the vast majority of my public schools, as well as my own.

This goes to all students, or anyone who works in the early hours of the day: Do you ever find yourself  knackered and exhausted by the time you arrive at school/work? This is the result of lack of sleep, which if this new policy ever did arise to attend school so early, growing children would no longer have sufficent sleep. Scientific studies reccomend children to get at least ten hours sleep a day, but if you have to wake up af 5-6am you would have to go to bed at 8! You may think 3 hours free time is adequate, but if you take into account extra ciricular activities (for example: sewing, sports etc) and PARTICULARLY homework; consequently you will find youself having hardly any free time to embrace-nothing to LIVE for exept a weekend here and there. Futhermore, Michael Gove seems to have no knowledge of the current presence of after school clubs in STATE schools, so that establishes my point about how he should find some facts before expecting more from teenagers/children! Then on, its the same struggle everyday, stress and hard work, and a little sleep if your lucky. Its totally disrespectful for Michael Gove to not take into account how this will take such a huge impact on young students lives. Many students theese days seem to be very tired in the morning already, due to lack of sleep. Therefore, the few extra hours in the morning would in No WAY shape or form make a diffrence, It will just ware the teachers and children out.

I have a numerous amount of friends who went to private schools, aswell as myself. Yes, the education was obviously better, however alot of private schools theese days have reputations of ruining peoples outside lives. I found myself and from other peoples experiences getting incredibly hung up on work, homework etc. Its not a way of living for children, doing more hours than the average working hours of an adult is completely preposterous. 

Another thing, If i had the opertunity to speak to this selfish man I would yell him down to quit assuming that teachers haven't been giving out detentions, before deciding for teachers to be more strict and increase working hours. Think about your peoples LIFES rather than what people are going to think of England's reputation.