The Argument Against Longer School Days Essay

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.

    An article from The Wichita Eagle really focuses on one family and how the change to longer school days has impacted them and their first-grade son. It also has some views from a few other parents and a couple of teachers and board members.

We can all agree that school feels like it lasts forever. From the moment you walk into the second you walk out. But just because the final bell rang doesn’t mean that you’re done. You still have to go to practice, and don’t forget the piles of homework that need done. But you see with shorter school days you’d have more spare time to complete school work,

How would parents like it if their children came home late and had to rush to do all of their homework in a short period of time before dinner and/or bed?  This would cause quality time to create a family bond to dramatically . So in return, children who not home spending time with their family, they are creating weak family relationships. When a weak family is existent  a large amount lot of conflicts will break a family apart. If the school board chooses to make school days longer it will affect students by giving them less time to study, it will take longer for children to see their parents and in return, it will create weak families that will break apart because they won't know them like they should and it will take away time to use for fun because you are only a kid once.

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.

First of all, the school board should not extend the school day because students will lack attention and lose energy. Making extra class time will be ineffective. Also, when students are tired, it will make the last hour useless. When they could be relaxing at home, some students suffer from post-lunch attention deficit syndrome, which is

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.

Long has the topic of longer school days been a controversial debate among parents, teachers, and students. In recent years, discussions about the length of school days have influenced states and school districts to change the amount of time students spend at school. The question becomes whether longer school days can help improve the academic performance of students. There are different views on the length of school days when it comes to student performance. The people who advocate longer school days are debating on what they believe is of greater interest to students. Proponents to longer school days believe that they are debating in the greater interest of students as well.

Introduction: I think that it is comletely stupid to add 1 hour and a half each day. Kids would lose so much as sleep, hunger, and going places with their friends and families. And students would get annoyed by other students by being stuck in the same class period with them for even longer that there would be more fights. Also by the time students get out of school and get home from sports they don’t have time to study or time to hang with friends. Body Paragraph 1: In my opinion they should not add more time to school each day, students will lose so much just for an hour and a half each day.

The school board plans to add one and a half hours to school each day, and I don’t think that's a good idea. For one, most kids don’t get enough sleep at night, and by 3:07 they’re ready to go home and go to sleep. If we extend school hours most kids will be sleeping in class, and then won’t be learning anything. Second, most kids parents work at different times and that would just mess their schedule up. Say if the child parents needs to be at work at 3:20, and needs there child to be there to take care of their little siblings. If we get out later than 3:07 it would mess that up. Last but not least, it would be good for those who like to afternoon activities, but still it would be a long time staying at school. I think the school board shouldn't

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

The world is always changing, always having new ideas impacting the future of the human race. In the coming years, students success is where everything begins at a young age. Students are the future of how the world is going to turn after adults that are currently in control of the world. In an essay, written by Malcolm Gladwell, he expresses the idea of having more school days than required. So, the students can learn at a slower pace like “working on a single problem for twenty minutes”(10) in class instead of being rushed through having no time to finish. Having more school days will improve how students work on academics thoroughly given more time in order to help them succeed in their future. “I think that extending the amount of time

Clearly, school days shouldn’t be extended. It’s tough enough with 6 ½ hours of school, so why add additional hours to it? We are lead to this opinion because students are getting stressed, schools need to pay a lot of money to pay teachers and for supplies to last the extended hours, and the students don’t have enough time to do other

When it comes to longer school days, the majority of students do not concur. However there are many positives of extended school days. To get into specifics, longer school days are better for raising test scores and children with risky grades. The Department of Education in Massachusetts reported that increasing the school day by 25% raised test scores by around 4.7% - 10.8% points. In addition, some students who teeter on the edge of dropping out of honor classes or receiving bad grades can gain additional support with extended school hours. Secondly, longer school days provides better student to student or student to teacher bonding. A longer school day has the ability to give students more time to get to know each other, as well as their

Although minimum time in schools has not evolved much over the past decades, adjustments have been made in an attempt to maximize time spent in schools. These adjustments include block schedules to increase students’ time with a particular subject area, later start times to account for hormonal changes occurring in youth, and year-round schooling to increase students’ engaged learning time. However, research regarding these initiatives suggests the impacts of school structure reform on student improvement are mixed at best, suggesting that the assumption, greater time in school = more learning, does not always hold true. Thus, if schools undertake schedule reform, it should be for reasons other than increasing student achievement. This issue is important because many school administrators may operate under this assumption and believe that certain reforms have a clearly positive impact on student performance. However, education policy researchers are not in consensus regarding whether these reforms have a positive, negative, or no effect on student performance. Thus, administrators may undertake these reforms, resulting in increased costs and a transition period that could result in a temporary decrease in student performance, (Gruber and Onweugbuzie 2012) without being aware that the reforms’ effects have not been clearly parsed out from other factors. After a brief background of school schedule reform, the remainder of this paper will be divided into three