Benefits Of Shortening The School Day

Year round education (YRE) is implemented in 436 U.S. school districts with very few complaints. In fact, school districts that have been participating in YRE and extended school days (ESD) are raving about the benefits in pupil's achievement level, their new found enthusiasm in learning, as well as the many programs that exist in the extended day promoting the decline in latch key children.

Year round education (YRE) is implemented in 436 U.S. school districts with very few complaints. In fact, school districts that have been participating in YRE and extended school days (ESD) are raving about the benefits in pupil's achievement level, their new found enthusiasm in learning, as well as the many programs that exist in the extended day promoting the decline in latch key children.

A lot of parents are shaking their heads at the consideration of a four-day school week, and a longer school day. Shorter school weeks or longer school days are reasonable solutions when there is a shortage of funding, or possible budget cuts coming to the school district. This solution has many mixed opinions from parents, teachers and school board members.

Four day or five day school week is what almost everyone is debating. I stand on the five day school week side of this argument. This editorial is going to explain why I stand on the side of the five day school week, and the pros versus the cons of the five day school week.

Year round schooling may sound scary but read this and I might change your mind. Year round school is pretty much what is sounds like, except it is the same amount of school days as a regular year, and it has more spread out breaks. Year round school would be beneficial because it consist of less review due to “summer slide”, more “family time”, and longer more spread out breaks.

The school day should start later in order improve students’ mental health. Survey results have consistently indicated that middle level and high school students who start school at 7:15 a.m. or earlier obtain less total sleep on school nights due to earlier rise times in comparison to students at later-starting schools. () This is just the beginning of the negative impacts that early start times have on students. By starting school at a later time, students’ brains will function better, their grades and learning increases, and will be more mentally stable.

Is the traditional school calendar really the best option for your local school system? Maybe, having a year-round schooling system would be best. Year-round education is when schools operate on a 180 day school calendar with frequent breaks. Year-round calendars also don’t include a long summer vacation(Melissa Kelly, February 21,2017). A traditional school in America has a 10-month school calendar, but, many are switching to the year-round calendar. Some are switching to maintain more consistent instruction. A few others are switching in order to save money(Grace Chen, July 2017, Public School Review). There are over 3,000 year-round schools in the United States today. Year-round schools first started in major cities or towns like, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Buffalo and Detroit. But, Los Angeles has the most year-round schools, over 500, in the nation. And there are only 10% of public school students who attend a year-round school. This can be beneficial for both teachers,students and even the families involved. The dropout rate is 2% lower than traditional schools( Niche ,2016). The absence rate is also lower, about 1% lower to be exact. This type of system can increase the school building capacity which means there’s no overcrowding. More education would be provided to lower income families or a child that is disabled. Studies also show that year-round schools have higher test scores than traditional schools. Changing the traditional school calendar

Should schools go to a 4 day school week instead of 5 days? This has been a hot topic especially the states that don’t have as large of an economy. A poll where 2,700 random people were polled about 67% favoured a 4 day school week(university of Scranton). The reason why school districts are going to a 4 day school week is to save money and the states that you see switching to a 4 days are states that have economic problems such as Oklahoma. You won’t have to run the electricity or pay for buses. The only question is does it hurt students education but the statistics are showing that is clearly not the case one bit. 4 day school week would be better for schools without a doubt because you save money and kids will be more refreshed and not burned out also their behavior is showed to become better.

The authors of the two texts, “High Schools Starting Later to Help Sleepy Teens” and “High School Will Keep Starting Too Early. Here's why.” has different claims regarding the school start time for teenagers, mainly high schoolers. The author of the first text advocates that later school start time is beneficial. However, the author of the second text contradicts the later school start time.

Every school district has board meetings throughout the school year. Unfortunately, many parents, community members, & school personnel do not attend such important meetings because they don’t realize or understand the importance of such board meetings or how informative they can be. According to Kankakee School District (2017), the Kankakee School District Board of Education is composed of seven elected members, who were elected by the citizens of Kankakee to serve a four-year term that do not receive no salary for they services, are committed to ensuring a quality of educational excellence that will enhance the opportunities and challenges facing today’s student and additional responsibilities that board members include are selection of the District superintendent, developing general polices according to wishes of the community and requirements of law, hiring school personnel based upon recommendation of the Superintendent and the Assistant Superintendent of Personnel, adopts salary schedules, approves funds to finance school operations, must adopt and review the annual operating budget for the District, and setting the property tax levy to produce adequate funds to meet the District’s financial needs ranks among the responsibilities of the Board of Education (Retrieved from https://www.ksd111.org/domain/68). For this paper, the Kankakee School District board meeting will be used, information learned from board meeting, use of

Following parents’ demands and school needs, some schools want a longer day. DeKalb middle school in Atlanta already offers after-school enrichment programs and wants to offer all students the extra hours of instruction. Marion Anders, executive director for DeKalb middle school, is doing some things to reform the school. He is working on educational programs, where students spend at list five hours per day in core academic subjects. Also, he asks for additional funds to pay teachers extra to tutor low-achieving students in reading and math (Madison 16). Therefore, some

Have you ever considered the benefits of going to Saturday school? Turns out most people disagree with this topic. However, if you really think about it there are a lot of benefits of attending school six days a week. In this essay you will learn about the three main benefits of going to Saturday school such as field trips, opportunities for average and advanced students, and lastly additional time in

Most people feel tired after a long day of school or work. Well, so do I, and probably most of you, too. How do teachers expect us to get through a seven hour day, with only one forty minute break? Most students suffer a long day at school. Dividing up the recess and breaks would spread the physical activity throughout the day, and would allow the brain to recover after almost every class, so students are ready to learn more. When I went to school in Germany over the summer, there were six classes in a five and a half hour day. There were breaks ranging between five and twenty minutes, depending on the schedule, between every class. Students were able to eat in the cafeteria or outside,

The diocesan curriculum coordinator recommended to Fr. Belleview, the diocesan superintendent, that he extend the length of the school day by forty minutes. Fr. Belleview should not underestimate the enormity of the decision to extend the school day by a significant amount of time. This is not a decision that he can undertake alone, nor can he make this decision in concert with one other individual. The stakeholders to this decision must be identified and they need the opportunity to study the proposal and make thoughtful contributions to the decision-making process. The stakeholders include the parents and students, who may not be able to adjust for the longer day; teachers and principals, who are now working a longer day, as are school custodians and support staff; school-bus drivers, crossing guards, after-school activity coordinators, who have to shift their work day; and any members of the community who may be economically or otherwise adversely affected by the change in schedule.

A longer school day is an educational change that has been debated for some years. Maulidi (2016) stated that full day school is a program that operate a learning process in whole day. It is started from 07.00 am until 16.00 pm. Some official argued that spending most time in a class will develop the skill of students. Moreover, Herman (1984) claimed that full day programs provide a relaxed, unhurried school day with more time for a variety of experiences, greater opportunity for screening and assesment to detect and deal with potential learning problems, and more occasions for good quality between adult and students. Actually, full day school was begin at the early 1980s in USA which have been applied in kindergarten and it was spread to higher degrees until senior high school. According Pengertian Full day School (2016), the program was appeared because the increasing of carrier woman who have children under 6 years old. Besides, the technological advance in several aspects boost the parents to expect the improvement of their children’s scores. On the other hand, many people taught that full day school is a new educational system in