I would have to disagree with Ms Rankine’s comments on how whole school assemblies have a positive effect on the pupils that attend. Firstly, it seems to drone on forever! This makes students very uninterested. As well as the drabness, they also miss out on a lot of class time. They have these whole school assemblies about twice every term and they go for about two lessons!! So students are potentially missing out on 16 lessons of schoolwork, every year! That is two whole days of school they miss out on every year! Do they really want students missing out on that amount of schoolwork?
Another reason on this topic is how much pressure is placed on to those unfortunate