Cram School During Vacation

We are in the middle of the summer vacation now.

There will be no classes until September 3rd.

By the way, a third year student is going to participate in an English speech contest after the summer vacation, so the ALT and I are helping him compose a speech and practicing his pronunciation.

I asked the student about his schedule after the practice in the morning, and he said that he will go to a cram school from 3 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Although he is going back home to have dinner for short time, I was really surprised with the long hours of studying.

I wonder if he can really focus on his study that long.

The ALT said “this is not a vacation.”

We, teachers, need to make our classes more meaningful so they don't have to spend a lot of time studying outside of school.