Why Study Hall Should Be Longer

Have you ever felt stressed about homework? Or have you ever wanted to just come home and relax? This is why the Burris Laboratory School should provide an in-school study hall during school. having study halls during the school day would help improve grades and understanding of subjects. By providing a study hall, there shouldn’t be any excuses for students to not doing their assignments. Not only will having a study hall increase grades, but will allow the students to fill their nights with some event or activity that the student likes doing.

There are students that don’t eat lunch because they don’t like what is provided. If the students are back by the time the next class starts students should be able to leave. The school should give students a chance to prove they can be trusted. Schools should give them a specific amount of chances and if they ruin those chances they shouldn’t be able to leave anymore, but they don’t even give them a chance.

All these voices come from the same people. Students wishing for longer passing time in the halls. Now Smithville Middle School joins the fight, but this school isn’t using a barrage of exclamation points. It’s time somebody got to the root of this argument. ‘How can short passing times affect middle school life?’, ‘Does it affect student behavior?’, and finally, ‘How many minutes are really needed?’

In a recent survey 81% of students reported they were late to class because the passing period was too short and they either had to use the restroom or there class is too far away. Students should be able to have longer passing periods for restroom usage, and to have a little nutritional snack before the next class. If students had more time, they’d have time to get prepared for the next class. Lastly there would be less detention slips given out. Since they are so short students are upset because they are tardy and have to go to detention.

Having shorter school days has always been a disagreement. But I want to tell you why students are consistently falling asleep in class and how to fix it. School days are way too long for students to handle. Some people may think that school days are the right length or even too short. Some students may like having longer days because they would have more time to work on their homework in school since they would have extra time at the end of a class. However, I believe that school days are too long. I feel the three most important reasons why school days should be shorter is because children need their sleep if they want to be healthy, both children and teens have very short attention spans making it hard for them to pay attention for seven

Adding just an extra ten minutes to each class, the new schedule would create the potential for students to have more homework time, lab time, learning time, and/or valuable free time to read for pleasure, relax with music, draw, etc. (Hadfield). Especially as students get older and more involved in extracurriculars and rigorous academic courses, the need for any spare moment to get assignments done, study, or even sleep increases. When this time is unavailable or extremely hard to get, students are more likely to fall asleep in class, miss school due to illness, misbehave, cheat, hand in incomplete assignments, or drop out altogether. The same is largely true for teachers. The more homework turned in by students, the more grading has to be done by teachers who are already exhausted from a long, often repetitive day of work. Therefore, it is important to emphasize the fact that this extra time should not be used to cram in larger quantities of learning standards or homework problems, but rather to enhance the quality of the already demanding school regulations that are in schools

One issue we stand upon is how early our school day starts. If school starts later, then their brain will function better and they will learn more. Another think students could really use is a longer lunch time. Currently, students can not finish lunch because of how later they start serving. For example, if your zone is called last on a short schedule day, you may only get 15 minutes to scarfe down you food, which is not enough time.

     The same what Study Hall keeps students in their desks from 8:00pm to 10:00 pm, it’s a great method of improving a student’s responsibility. When someone is into a routine of doing something every day at the same time, he gets use to it and sometimes keeps that routine forever. One of the reasons study hall is done in Cushing is to provide discipline and responsibility to a student in order to study by your own in College in a near future. It will also make a student keep at least two hours a day to review and study for college. Keeping time for your studies is a great sign of responsibility. In many aspects, Study Hall contributes to a great future by providing responsibility and discipline in a student’s studies.

Is study hall important to you? Do you think that it would help you if you had study hall? Would you use your time wisely? Well, I believe that middle schools should have study hall. High schools have study hall and just because we are younger than them that doesn’t mean that we can’t have study hall. Study hall is proven to be more helpful for students.

It is proven, that if you move more, blood will move in your head, making you focus more. A student will try their best to do something they don’t really know how to do. I have noticed that if I move before I start my math I will concentrate better. For that reason, students should have a longer recess.

The school board plans is considering adding one and a half hours to the school day.The extra one and half of hours would provide more instruction time. This would also provide students more time for remediation, and teachers more time to plan interactive lessons with the extension of the school day. For these reasons, the school board should extend the school day by one and a half hours.

To begin, sitting for five hours on a regular school day is hard enough, but sitting in uncomfortable auditorium seats for five and a half hours is unbearable. With the lack of motion, students tend to become agitated and lose interest posthastedly. From personal experience, having more movement during the day increases both focus and productivity in and outside of the classroom. Yes, there is a massive amount of information to take in over the course of a six hour day, but the total movement that happened was a questionable practice.

There results when including restroom, drink and locker time were very expected. In this experiment, students with a 3 minute long passing time are making tests to see if this is enough time while adding on bathroom, drinks, locker, and talking to teacher time. They, meanwhile, added a student and teacher survey and 85% of them said we should have more passing time. All in all, after adding in all of the different variables they found that 3 minutes was definitely not enough time. This school recommended at least 4 minutes, so students won’t have to miss out on the beginning of class or go to the restroom in the middle of a lesson. Not to mention teachers may need some time to go to the restroom, make copies, or check their mailboxes. This is just another reason why our passing time should be

The school board wants to extend the school day, just so they can increase the number of subjects the students must know. More classes lead to more homework, and more homework leads to the student not having any time to socialize. Students will get overwhelmed with homework, even though we’re already getting quite a bit just alone. By adding more homework to what we already would normally have will upset the students. They’ll hate school even more. Yes, homework will help a student about a subject more. Most of the time that homework, that the students worked so hard on, don’t even get a grade on it. The students feel like they just got stabbed in the back by their own

Study Halls are a very useful time period for high school students. Throughout my four years of high school, study halls have helped my grades greatly. They allow for students to complete more homework in school rather than having to do it at home where there are more distractions. Study Halls time, however, can differ from one person to the next. At my school we have a four block schedule, meaning you could have a study hall any given block. Having a study hall first block on any given day is more beneficial for a student than having a last block study hall.