School re-opens today after the Easter vacation

TODAY,  it’s back to the grind again of rising early in the morning and to motorists, maxi-taxi drivers and pedestrians alike - it’s the start of the new school term, which signals absolute chaos on the nation’s roadways, not to mention thoroughfares.

For the last two weeks, roadusers have been breathing a sigh of relief as they no longer had to get up at the crack of dawn to get transportation, or ensure that they got to the workplace on time due to horrendous traffic pile-ups. Today, you  no longer have the luxury of waking up a half hour later, as rush hour traffic will once again resume between 6 and 8.30 am, and from 2 and 5 pm. However, following the recently concluded Easter vacation students are back in full force. This term runs for the next ten and a half weeks (only two and a half months)." Hopefully, secondary school students will be focussing their energies on studying for both the Ordinary and Advanced Level Examinations in May, June and July and will have little time for liming.

One can hope that our malls and pavements will not be over-run by uniformed soldiers seeking an appropriate spot, with law enforcement officers being forced to play double duty, by “shovelling” school children into maxi-taxis at the respective stands to get to school. Video game arcades will experience “get rich quick” schemes off your children as sales will increase, as they look for things to keep them occupied (they might want to visit the new Library on Abercromby and St Vincent Streets). School repairs should have been completed by now, with all holes in fences being mended over the vacation, and nightclubs will experience a decline in sales as teenagers return to the learning institutions for another phase of their educational enlightenment.