Longer School Days In School

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.

“After World War II, the United States had the number one High School graduation rate in the World. Today, we have dropped to number 22 among 27 industrialized nations.” (Education in Deep Distress). Even though people think education would make less time for family and extracurricular activities, more education would result in better a career choice; education is needed to make a better well rounded Country in order to keep up with the competition; longer school days would result in learning more benefits for life.

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.

Schools are so much a part of our society, so the accurate length of school days is extremely important. Public opinions on the length of the school days are different. There are a lot of parents and professors concerned that it is hard for children to go to school early in the morning and stay there the whole day. On the other side, some professors try to force students into a nine hour school day. Not so many years ago, school was a main part of my life, and the school days’ structure and length affected my social life and ability to study. From my own experience and some studies that I have seen, students benefit if school days are long.

The debate rages on about whether the school day should be longer or shorter, and if shortening or making the school days longer has a better effect on education. In the article “Small, rural schools going to a four-day week of classes” by Juno Kaufmann states that there are many reasons on why going to a four-day week of classes improve state testing scores and provides a better education. But in the article “Extending the school day” by Ted Franklins there are many reasons why having longer school days help education. Though you might think that having longer classes would help students, going four days a week is better since teachers are better prepared to teach student and ACT scores have gone up in schools that have four day weeks.

Should we make school start times longer? I think we should because 80% of U.S schools start before 8:30am and that's not an efficient time.Parents also need to drop off their kids early in the morning and still need to work until 9pm (that's late hours).That shows that parents and also the students aren't getting enough sleep to get through their day.

Have you ever just wished your school day as shorter? In some schools children have longer school days. In Finland the school day is fifteen percent shorter than the school day in the United States, but their test scores are much higher. People have different points of view on length of the school day in America. Some people think that school days should be longer to improve academics for students.“The US lags behind other countries in core subjects. In 2015, American students came in 24th in reading, 25th in science, and 41st in math out of 72 countries—not the worst, but far from the best,” (pg. 30) Because the U.S.A is behind, many experts believe that students should go to school for an additional 90 minutes a day.U.S.A. Some experts

More time, less stress, and an easier learning environment, those are the benefits of having shorter school days. On the other hand, you’d have you’d have a longer school year, and probably a bit more responsibility. But in the end it is worth it, getting to sleep in, and actually being able to get home at a decent time after sports. So would you agree that shorter school days are worth it?

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.

No matter the length of school whether it is a longer school day or if it is taught year round if teachers do not teach the material the students will not learn anymore. Like many other schools, Saltillo High School has a mixture of teachers. Some teachers go above and beyond for their students and others do not. I believe that if every teacher will commit to teaching the required curriculum everyday there would be no need in making the term longer. However, if the teachers do not cover all of the material before the school year is over I think that the school board should expand the school

There are many schools around the nation that are beginning to add one and a half hours of more work to school each day. Although our school has not done this yet, the school board is already working on the idea. I firmly disagree with the idea of school hours being extended even longer than they already are. To begin with, if the school board adds time onto school hours, then they are simply taking time away from our families. Also, the faster we get home, the more time we have to complete our homework. Finally, most kids are already exhausted by the end of the day as it is. As can be seen, there is absolutely no reason at all that the school board should extend the school hours by an hour and a half.

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,

School days or should be hours or days should be shortened for the health of the students and teachers. They are affected in many ways you would not even imagine. I believe school should be shortened because students do not get proper rest and will be able to pay attention more in class.

I woke up to the sun poking up from the horizon. My eyes adjusting to morning they are still tired and so am I. I looked around, my two brothers and sister are still in all in a deep sleep. So I yelled at them to wake up.