Extending School Hours

There is no reason why schools shouldn’t extend the school day. The obvious solution to these problems is just to extend the school day and turn it into the four day week. Changing this can help the students now and the soon to be students by giving them a better learning experience and end up doing better in life in general. The extended school day has been used in some schools across the U.S. and has proven to work just as or better than the normal day. The extended school day will not only affect the lives of the students helping them to succeed it will also better our society if the next generation of workers are well educated and

Have you ever had those thoughts where they were too scary, but they were very possible? The reasons why we should not have 90 more minutes in our day is because people have plans, it can be expensive, and because it won’t fix our problems. We shouldn't have school for a longer period because other people may have plans afterwards. Some people may have a doctor's appointment right after their last class. Some may have a sport to practice for that can't be too late in the day. Some may even have to leave early for whatever reason, and they could be missing an extra class they have to attend.

In conclusion, high schools should keep the time to start and end school the way it is. It is not worth it if students comes back from school later in the afternoon and doesn’t know what to do before dark comes. Even if they do know what they’re gonna do like probably go to work, do after school activities, and activities outside from home. The whole school gets affected because for teachers who have a young child they won’t be able to do anything they want before their child comes home from school. So if everyone get’s a negative affect by this then it’s truly not worth the money to change the

Many parents and students believe that school starts too early,I agree with them school hours should be pushed back.But some may argue why would this be necessary,or what can this change affect them. This change is beneficial for the students,in many ways such as conduct,grades,and tardies that is why pushing back school one hour will help and I will tell you how.

School days should start later in the day because there are many benefits to doing so. Such as improved grades, Test scores, and safer roads because teens won’t be as drowsy if they sleep 8 plus hours.

As a senior in high school, I go to school from 8am to 3 p.m. every weekday, then go to work from 4p.m. to 9 or 10 p.m. most nights. Then I’m expected to come home and do two to three hours of homework and get enough sleep to to do it all over again? With school pushed back an hour or more, it would provide more sleep time and allow more time to do homework before school.

So first the reason would be affected because after school activities would be moved later, but if school ends at five then do you want your kid to be at school till six or seven if not then this would not help. For example, census.gov says, 57% of kids participate in activities after school that means over half of the school will be there till 7:00 or 6:00 and if there are 79,423. Now is that fair to teachers and staff because they stay a little later to finish up anyways and how little they are paid is just not fair for them to not see their family. So again, I take into consideration my life and others my mom is a teacher so I would never see her and other families would care about this reason just as much as anything

If we were able to get out of school four days earlier, then they would not pay for school lunches. School lunches are very expensive. They can work on saving money by school funding. They can buy more food and put it in the storage. They wouldn’t have to pay for the lunch ladies. That is why school lunches can save us money.

Some people might say teachers having a longer school day could give teachers more time on harder subjects but, teachers have less time to prepare. Teachers need this planning for quality learning. Also Dennis Hamel says,”Teachers worry they don't have time to work with students who are falling behind.” His article also says,”But extending a school day will not alone guarantee positive results. Other ways to help students, teachers, and families are needed.” This will not improve test scores alone because students need quality time instead of

Parents argue that later school times can disrupt their schedules, and cause them to go into work later than usual. This is not the case however, according to the Titus Sharpie, a research scientist of Human Habits and Behaviors at the University of California, Berkeley “the average person working in the US gets to work at 9:00am...and starts work by 9:20am.”(Sharpie). If school times really did start at 8:30, parents could drop their kids off at school and head straight to work. Not to mention, the public transportation such as buses can pick up kids up to 20 minutes before school starts and take them to school on time. Also, parents will end work just as school ends, and be able to pick them up. Buses and after school programs are also available in schools to care for children if parents can’t pick them up in time. School time’s starting later can be a huge improvement to a child’s education while at the same time not disrupting day to day

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.

I am strongly opposed with the Dickenson County school boards plans to extend our school day an extra hour and a half. I do not feel that this extension would help the students in our schools. Our school days are all ready seven hours a day so in addition to this seven hours of school would make it eight and a half hours. Adding this extension would kill us. We would not have near enough time for anything after school. We would have to just focus on our school work and nothing else because we would also be under a lot of stress. That is my reason why that this is a bad idea.

Extending learning time is not a new idea, however, as indicated in the introduction, a school cannot simply add an extra half-an-hour to the day and call that a timetable improvement. This is a tempting option because educational institutions and the Government spend significant portions of their budget on outside of school hours’ care, and expanded school day (days that start before 8:30 or finish after 3:30) or extension classes and specialist study programs appear to use otherwise empty time. In the Australian context, more than 40 weeks and 6 - 7 hours per day (including breaks) would constitute an extended program.

Aside from the difficulty of finding a place within a school, many children are also expected to work and to help provide for their families, as many parents cannot find a job. Many go to school all day, and then work night shifts at restaurants or factories. Many children are often exposed to extremely long working hours, dangerous types of work and many are exposed to illegal activities.