Current Event Week of 2/26/07
Do school days need to be longer?
On Average U.S. students go to school 6.5 hours a day, 180 days a year, fewer than in many other industrialized countries, according to a report by the Education Sector, a Washington-based think tank. A Massachusetts school is now experimenting with longer school days! The schools principal claims that it doesn't make the days as cramped and students have more time to do fun things such as to study music and longer recess. Along with this teachers would get a higher income.
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Do you think that the school days should be longer? Do you think it would benefit the students in the end? Would this just benifit elementary kids or both high school and elementary kids?
On Average U.S. students go to school 6.5 hours a day, 180 days a year, fewer than in many other industrialized countries, according to a report by the Education Sector, a Washington-based think tank. A Massachusetts school is now experimenting with longer school days! The schools principal claims that it doesn't make the days as cramped and students have more time to do fun things such as to study music and longer recess. Along with this teachers would get a higher income.
Read Article here
Do you think that the school days should be longer? Do you think it would benefit the students in the end? Would this just benifit elementary kids or both high school and elementary kids?
posted by phs_sociology at 2:00 PM
17 Comments:
Well of course I agree with making this because NOBODY wants to come to school as early as we do..it would benefit everybody as said but yeah when i walk in scholl every morning im so dead and i cant focus cause of it!!! i think its dumb as heck that we have to start school this early and it is nonsense to me!!! This doesnt just affect elementry schools either!! If you like coming to school as early as we are now than you are crazy and u need pimp slapped!!! Im just being honest here..lol
In my school in Belgium the school day was 8 hours and it was not a problem because we have a break of 15 minutes every two hours and one of 50 in the middle of the day. We had those breaks because students can't concentrate during an 8 hour school day with no breaks. The amount of learning would be the same, it would just add breaks to the schedule.
The only way I would say school days should get longer is if we would get off every Friday. I think that makes the most sense. Yes, the teachers are getting adequately compensated for going longer days at school, but how are the students? Maybe if no homework was also included, I would go for that. Students are just forced to sit in a place doing the same repetitive stuff for 8 hours. That is one third of the whole day. Plus, most of the stuff we learn in school we will never learn again.
As for the No Child Left Behind, I think this is an absurb plan that Bush passed to get everyone at the same level. Well, everyone is never going to be at the same reading and math level. Kids don't care. So why have those kids sitting there for 2 extra hours a day? The mandate/extra hours of school is just punishing the good students (whom, might I add, do NOT want to be at school, either).
I think the extra day would benefit no one. Young children can stay focused about 1/3 to 1/2 the amount of time we can. It is hard enough for high schoolers to focus on school work for 6.5 hours, let alone 8. This would cut into extra-curricular activities (which probably keep most students coming to school).
well from what delphine said i guess having breaks in the middle of the day wouldn't be so bad. still, more time at school just makes me feel like im getting a longer sentence for the jail that is school.Not only that, but the weavers are right about the no child left blah blah blah crap because the only way to get a kid to learn is if he really wants to, no matter how many bills you pass for new tests and whatnot. you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
The real question is though, if there is a law passed to make the school days longer, then will the same amount of curiculum be taught? Most likely not... there will be more assignments and ect. Let alone how much time the longer school days takes away from everyone's extra ciricular activities. These students will get home from school later, the time of the sports or whatever will be later becuase school lets out later, and then kids will be getting to bed later. I know right now that my days are packed full and sometimes I don't even see my house again until 9 o'clock that morning. I leave at six. There is no reason that i can believe that the school days should be longer.
I think that school should be 6.5 hours and I think that it's okay to start early in the morning. then you get out earlier and you have the rest of the day to do whatever you please. It would be dumb (to me) to sleep in then you won't want to do anything.
i think that having longer school days wouldnt be that bad. especially if there was a break in the middle of the day. i also think that if the days are longer we should have way longer lunches and the school week should only be 4 days long.
i think its a freakin dumb idea to make the school days long. suck it up and go to school in the morning and when the day is over you feel much better most of the time knowing you dont have anything else going on unless your work evey day of your life like me. blahhh.
i would hate longer days of school! who cares if we have to wake up early get over it u have been doing it for ever! Every one should be use to it and if not o well ur fault i would hate to spend more time in school and i would hate to come in later and ge out later! screw tht! It would be a beneifit to use because we would maybe get more sleep or not but little kids r already use to getting up early so it a wierd situation.
There are definitely some pros and cons to having an eight hour school day though the cons will end up outweighing the pros by a ton. With a longer day, students would have less time to do extra-curriculars, do homework, be with friends and sleep. If I weren't graduating and next year Perry put the school day up to eight hours I would end up switching schools. I have enough to do in a day without adding on two extra hours of education.
Whether i can focus at school with everything cramped together or not, there is no way that school should be longer. Six hours of suffering AT school then a few more at home of homework is entirely too much for me already. I would rather take the pain of getting up earlier and getting OUT earlier than getting up later and staying later? i dont know who in their right mind would do that. Although i do agree that it would help me focus if it wasnt all cramped together but i'd start to get really irritated and not focus anymore if school was that long. MAYBE THEY SHOULD CONSIDER MAKING THE TIME FOR THE ACT A LITTLE BIT LONGER.
and i completely agree with the weaver twins.
I think that school days are long enough and that they should not be made longer. As students we can hrdly be there as long as we are. If school systems make the time we are in there longer then students will just not go or skip. There will be more absent kids. If we had breaks during the school day students might find it easyer to come but i think that kids would still skip. Well this is my opion on it.
i think school should be 6.5 hours and be done. If they started later then people would only stay up longer and still get the same amount of sleep there fore be just as tired the next day. I also think we should keep it the same because it would just be longer into our day giving us less time after school to work, etc. The only reason i would go for 8h days is if we got fridays off or something.
no i do not think school days should be longer. we get enough homework from all our classes that when we get home from school we already dont have much time to relax and have fun and if they make the school day longer then there will be even less time to do homework and relax and have fun... soo many teens are staying up past midnight doing homework or studying for a test.. because when we get home from school we wanna relax and have fun so then with all the homework we get we have to stay up real late to get it all done. see what im saying? a longer school day would mean less time for relaxing and having fun and doing homework.
i also think that longer school days would but into sports and non-school activities...
now maybe if we didnt go to school on fridays and we had breaks in the middle and longer lunches it wouldnt be soo bad stay an extra 2 hours... but still i dont want it to be that way!
i don't agree with this. i mean yes we get up way to eary, but i like getting out of school as early as we do. after school you have more time to do your homework and other stuff you might aslo need to do. and some kids need after school jobs. you normally can't get a job that lets you come in later than 4. some of us wouldn't be able to do the jobs we do now because of that.
I think school should start at a later time, causing school to be longer. If school started later, i believe students would be able to learn better because they would be able to function at a decent hour in the morning, not 730. I think it would benefit both. Younger kids need more sleep because they are so young and still growing, and eventually it will effect them when they get to high school.
i dont think that school sould be extended longer...i mean think about it, for most of us who don't have to go to work right after school, aren't you normally tired and want to take a nap right after school?..i always have to take a nap afte school or else i am grumpy the rrest of the day. i think we're at school long enough as it is, and our poor little brains can only take so much.
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