Half-Hours In School

Yet still, parents and students are pushing for later start times in schools to accommodate to the natural schedule. Starting school at 9-10am rather 6-8am would drastically increase a student’s performance in school and would allow for more productivity and higher grades. Proper cognitive function would allow for happier and healthier students and could allow for a more positive social environment in

Both longer school days and regular (6.5 - 7 hour) school days have benefits and disadvantages. The Readworks article “Time To Think” discusses both pro’s and con’s about both sides of the argument. Such as, longer school days can cut into after school activities like sports and family time. With regular school days teachers might argue they don’t have enough time to teach students the lesson. While comparing both sides of the argument it appeared that longer school days and regular school days both have the kids’ interests in mind and either way the students will still have a good education.

Having a later school start time can increase a student’s academic grades and awareness. Thirty-three percent of teens say that they fell asleep in class. Even though this is a small portion of teens, falling asleep in class shouldn’t even happen once. Also, this means they are getting less than what they need,(eight to nine hours of sleep a night). A school needs to pack as much teaching time as they can in a day, but if that means waking up a student at a time so early, then there's no point.When a student doesn’t sleep as much, students are not aware as they would be if they had a good night’s rest. If students had this sleep, the would pay more attention in class. Therefor, a student would have better grades.

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.

A disadvantage that would be made is, if the end of the school day is 3:00pm for middle schoolers and it takes 30 minutes for the hallways to clear out, then there wouldn’t be enough time if everyone in the school is supposed to be out of the school by 4:00pm. Which would leave less than half an hour for the students to do whatever they need to. As well as if the student is in a sport and they only practice after school and they have an important game coming up, the students would be at a higher risk of losing during that competition since they don’t have as much time to practice after school. In addition to this, if there are more people staying after school, they would need to hire more bus drivers which would mean an increase in money that is being used every day or even every school

With that being said, if students had enough sleep, they would be school ready and their attendance and participation in class would improve. This means that the students will be able to focus and is more likely to stay awake if they arrive rested. This shows that changing the school start time would make the students more

School hours can last up to seven hours and more but, adding more hours to school isn't the best idea. I highly think that adding more hours isn't the best idea to do. To begin with, some students need more time to themself or just to relax. Also, a lot of kids these days don't want more hours to be added to school time. Finally, some kids need time to bond with their family members because family is a very important aspect of life to many people.

First of all, one third of a school usually plays sports, and those sports are after school. So if the school board adds more time to the school day then sports will be pushed back. If they are not pushed back then they are in the morning, and if they are in the morning then they mess up their whole sleep schedule. Plays, extracurricular activities, and everything else taking place after school will also be effected if they increase the length of the school day. If students participate in plays and other activities in the morning then that may have an effect on their sleep schedule, and it may cause their brain to not be able to process as much so they will not remember.

One big plus to the extended school day is that with more time in school it will allow teachers to teach their subject with a much deeper broader knowledge of the subject area. With more time in the school day students will have more time with all their teachers enabling the teachers to be less rushed and able to help students allowing them to get higher test scores and then overall grades. More time in school will also give students more time to work on and really understand projects and assignments, and also allowing them to get more help as needed. “U.S.

Transportation to school would become more difficult of the mornings because of bus scheduling issues between elementary, middle, and high school. Also, it would be hard for parents to take their children to school because of work times. However, parents could get together and create school carpools for their children to make things easier. People would also think it would interfere with extracurricular activities. When students participate in extracurricular activities during a certain point in the year their games and practices would be after dark. Also, Parents may say that there would be no time for their children to do homework or to study for test after practice. If students were very committed to their activities, they could wake up early in the mornings and go to practice then go to school

The reason kids wouldn't have extra time in the day, is because since school will start later, it would end later as well. After school is when kids can get away from teachers and rules and enjoy having fun with friends or do extra curricular activities, but when it gets late in the day, it gets dark out and stores close. The area can also get filled with creeps who only go outside when it gets dark so they can do drugs or try to steal stuff. School starting later would decrease the time kids have to do other things besides school. If our whole day would be spent in school, we would all turn into nerds!

Students would also need to power through longer school days in order to meet instructional hour requirements. If students are less attentive, their performance will drop. If absent, students will miss more material due to the longer school days. Students could forget curriculum over the extra day not in school. Despite these points having some real validity to them, four day school weeks can lessen our environmental impact.

If the school board extended the school the day by one and a half hours, there would be many conflicts which schedules. Since students are at school more often, family interaction will decrease. Students will be busy completing assignments, and trying to prepare for the next day instead of spending time with their families. This will cause family relationships to grow weaker and weaker each day. An extended day would also affect sporting events between different school districts. While other school districts are released and hour and a half earlier, we would be released an hour and a half late. This would delay the start time of sporting events. The students who play sports would not arrive home until it was dark. The

If an hour and half of school were added every day, students would miss after school activities. Students will miss the fun extracurricular activities. and students won’t get the exercise they need.

According to a report from the New York City district, a school that received funds for longer days fared better on standardized tests. This school had seven percent more students scoring at or above grade level in reading, when two other schools had increases of five and six percent. In math, three percent of students scored at or above grade level in a school with a longer day, compared with one percent for a low performing school and an average of one percent for other schools (Brett 1). This information is one example of many studies that illustrate that long school days have a great positive impact on school performance. The main school goals are improving students’ knowledge and building different skills that will help them in the future. Therefore, if longer school days support these educational goals, people should be concerned about improving schools by lengthening the day.