Extending School Days

I strongly disagree with the Dickenson County School Board extending each school day by one and a half hours. I feel an extension will not benefit students and staff. The school days are long enough as it is. Students and staff may not have enough time to do other activities after school hours. Adding more and more hours to school will result in an abundance of stress on everyone involved. The school board needs to take into consideration all of the negative impact this extension will have on our schools.

Some people say that extending school hour's is a bad thing for multiple reason's.I strongly disagree because their are many benefit's to extending school hour's to start at a later time.For example, if state's moved schools hour's to a later time their would be increased performance and reduced absences.There would also be a reduced number of student's falling asleep in class's and much more.

Did you know the school board is thinking about making school longer? However, kids already stay in school for 8 hours a day. Therefore, they do not need to stay in school for any longer. Mostly every student and teacher thinks that 8 hours is enough. The school board should not extend the school days because it may cause students to be mentally exhausted, extracurricular activities will be in the morning or people can not do them, and it may cause parents who drive their children to be late to work or students who have jobs after school.

The school board is considering adding an hour and a half to the school day. The extra hour and a half will cause scheduling problems. This would also cause teachers and students to become more tired. Also, this would cause conflicts with family and activities outside of school. For these reasons, the school board should not be extended the school day by one and a half hours for various reasons.

The Massachusetts experiment proves that the extension can produce more money for schools. Even though some might think the extension brings in more money, the reality is extending the school schedule cost millions and not many states have the resources to fund it. In fact in the article “Schools Give Extended Class Time a Longer Look” Ledyard King states, “Lack of money was largely the reason Florida abandoned its experiment with a longer school day years ago” (King). King’s statement proves that extensions are sometimes too costly to go into action. Furthermore, many states are not financially inclined to provide their schools with the resources needed for the extension.

Most students despise the thought of more school hours. I disagree with the majority, I think that there are great benefits to extending school hours. I have three reasons to support my opinion. Students could get more work done, preparing them better for a higher college education. Stay safer, and not face the dangers of the streets. Students could take more classes, which could give them more high school credits to possibly graduate quicker. I think these are crucial reasons to consider when the debate of extending school comes up.

As a student at Granite Ridge Intermediate, I am naturally not a fan of school (no offence to Granite Ridge). I would probably be even less of a fan of school if the school days were longer because it is such a bad idea. Some schools in the U.S have already extended their school days. The people who did this believe that extending the school day is actually going to have a positive impact on the students and teachers. I’m here to give you three reasons why these people made a horrible mistake. The problem is not that the school day isn’t long enough for teachers to get their message across, it’s that the teachers aren’t doing their job most of the time, there is no correlation between longer school days and better test scores, and finally, it costs way too much to extend school days.

Many educators have been thinking about making school hours longer.The school board plans to add one extra hour and a half to school. Many people have their different opinions on this idea. With school already being eight hours long the additional hour will make it nine and a half. There are plenty of reasons why this is not a good idea. I am strongly against adding additional hours to school because; some students gets grouchy, the teachers are tired, and schedules may be changed. That is a big change for a lot of people.

The government should not extend school hours.it is not healthy for the kids.it can cause depression. It can also cause long term brain damage.it very unhealthy it will cause their center focus to be on school only not on their family or their friends. The consequences can be back problems because the more school they get the more subjects they the more homework they have. If you or if the government encourages or extends school hours the students will surely overload and they will surely have depression low self esteem and all these kind of stuff.

I believe that the state should not extend the school time. If the state extends the school time it would leave students less time to attend to their after school activities.

One reason I am against adding more hours to the school day is because students will be more tired. The school board and many parents like the idea of having

In the current schedule many parents make doctor’s appointments right after school around 3:30 or 4:00 o’clock. However, if school were to end at 4:15 many parents would have to reschedule appointments throughout the school day which would take away from learning. For athletes, a longer school day would be even more chaotic. Most practices start immediately after school from 3:30 and last until 5:30 and sometimes practice runs as late as 6:00. These athletes would not get home until 6:30 and will be starving! Most importantly, students with jobs will lose hours and money. For instance, many seniors currently work from 3:30 to 8:30 every night. They make $8 an hour which would earn them $40 a night. If they work 5 days a week that would give that senior $200. However, if the school day were to end at 4:15, instead of working 5 hours a night it would force them to only be able to work 4 hours a night. This would lead to a $40 pay cut in 1 week and $160 pay cut per month! How would you feel if you had to miss school time because of doctor’s appointments, have to practice later into the night, miss dinner, and lose out on job

Will extending the school day really help? If they do raise the time for school, that extra time should go towards our lunch.

So now schools want to keep kids even longer than the already unnecessary length. Or at least unnecessary length of each individual class. The schools have gone too far this time, planning to add over an hour to the school day. Its already long enough as it is, but now they are going to drag it out even longer. Students are human beings, and like every person they can only handle so much in one day. But doing it everyday is even more far fetched.

The school board plans to add one and a half hours to school each day. We are at school for seven hours already. Our school hours are from 8:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Most schools get out at 3:15 instead of 3:30. I agree with adding a hour and a half to our school days because I could get more work done, in classes we could go over more subjects, and my grades would improve since we could review more topics and take more time on everything.