February 24, 2007
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Longer School Days
Several schools across the country are experimenting with longer school days. The average school meets for 6.5 hours a day. But some schools are going with an 8 hour school day.
Apparently it has caused testing scores to go up. One school is said to meet from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm plus a few hours on Saturday. Here is the link: Link
Do kids need to spend more time in school?
Comments (183)
i don’t think so.
i go from eight forty five to four. that’s enough.
1st?
how cliche.
Darn.
I’m not really sure if I could say ’cause I’m homeschooled.
noooooooo, school is long enough already!
no, but if they will do that then they should have a longer weekend
Maybe it would be an interesting idea to have the schoolday mirror the workday, making it easier for parents while exposing the children to more opportunities for instruction. Classes on weekends, however, is just too much.
No, they need more motivation.
6 1/2 hours?! i always went to school for 8! wow…
FIRST OMFG…WAIT, SHIT…
we go 7 am to 3 pm, if we want to. it’s not mandatory, and its only for sophomores through seniors…
i have p.e. at 7 am. its pretty lazy..
it makes no difference.
it generates income for the schools…
I don’t know… for kids in high school especially it makes it hard for them to balance work
sure why not…..
i wouldn’t mind like…an extra thirty minutes..
but like….an extra hour and half?\
that’s a bit too much..
+taxes would go up like crazy
question: so do these kids have a shorter school year then?
plus i already get bored in classes that are only 40 minutes long…making them longer would just bore the hell out of me and i would end up not paying attention…also a lot of the school work we do is busy work that wont benefit me the least….almost all of my classes, except for the honors ones, could be taught in 15 minutes…
you have to consider how ‘educated’ American kids are to kids of other developed countries. I really think most of the kids could use more education, but it’s also a matter of how the extra time is used. The amount of time won’t matter if they aren’t taught early on to focus on their studies, like most kids are in Asian countries/cultures. Just look at graduate studies in the sciences. How many caucasian lead a field?
If the amount of “busy work” was decreased and more time was spent teaching and reviewing and applying, test scores would probably go up without any added time.
No way, that’s too much. Kids already don’t have enough time to spend with their parents and other relationships, and have time in the real world. In my mind more learning happens outside the school sometimes than inside.
I think I finally know what you do for a living.
You’re a member of the associated press!
NO.
Like Yohsiph said, the kids just need more motivation.
Put them in school longer than they already are and the stress will be unbelievable.
No. I think they are there long enough. Kids need time to play.
No way, that’s too much. Kids already don’t have enough time to spend with their parents and other relationships, and have time in the real world. In my mind more learning happens outside the school sometimes than inside.
Posted 2/24/2007 12:53 PM by Completely_Compelled
I completely agree. You may learn about math, science, and grammar in school, but you can never get a grasp on true life lessons you learn in the real world and dealing with other people. I mean sure, there will be drama in the school, but it’s not like that’ll teach you anything.
no
maybe if the school year is shorter kids wouldn’t mind
They need to eliminate school all together and give more funding to prisons.
I think public schools need to get kids to think for themselves. They should be more like homeschool, where you don’t get through the grade if you don’t take the initiative to do your work.
No. We need to be more productive in school. There is a rediculous amount of time being wasted. I can go to do and manage to work in time for 1-2 hours of homework, get my classwork done, and still have time to nap…
*altogether
Not saturdays but yeah, It couldn’t hurt to have a few extra hours.
Considering I had at least two study halls a day my junior and senior years… No.
nah
kids need to spend less time procrastinating. if they would add on like an hour and a half in the day for studying and homework, not just in-class grading and more lecturing, then i think it would be easier for kids to get the homework practice they need and reading/studying that they tend to blow off once they get home.
No…I go from 7:50 to 2:40 that’s enough for me!
lol
NO! ITS LONG ENOUGH!
AHHH!
No more time, please. We just need to be taught to care more about learning. It’s a big problem. A lot of the students I go to school with just go because they have to, and don’t even care. I don’t see what they’re doing with their lives. I actually enjoy learning.
And, as one person mentioned, down with busy work!!! And no more coaches just talking about sports, I’ve had enough!
Teachers would never tolerate an 8-hour workday.
It would work for me if I had less homework.
well, people seem to flip out that my school starts at 7:55 instead of 8. but we have block scheduling, so each of our classes are about 85-90 minutes long. so we’d have half of our classes one day, and the other half the next. it works out pretty good
Wow. As a teacher…nope. That means I have more classes to teach and more papers to grade. I don’t mind bringing work home (clearly, I am an English teacher whose focus is on writing), but adding to my 165 students would kill me. (I started the year with 185!)
thats crazy.. no frakin way. by the time the students finsish school and get home it would be like 6:00. And if students are in other activities like choir, nand, football, baseball, ect – then they would not get home till like 8 or 9 PM. OR… students would stop doing after school activities. School is long enough. they are probably doing this because they feel that not enough students are passing thier TESTS. Stop teaching to your tests and teach students about life!!!, help them get into college, ACT and SAT prep, not just your tests. Plus, more hours would make students and teachers and staff more depressed and stressful than it already is – and more students would probably skip.
- Daniel (doubledb)
haha god i hope not
NEVERrrrrrrrrrr.
Longer school days are unneccesary
Better school days are what we need
I go 8 hours. It SUCKS.
no!!…thats why we have homework!…im doing fine w/ only 6.5 hours…this has been my best year yet!…i’ll be exausted w/ 8 hours!…kids need time to explore other things other than school!..let kids have free time!..we need it to explore things!…
There are some reasons why it’s now required to go longer. I live in Colorado and we have extended our school day 25 minutes because of all the snow days we’ve had this year. We have to do that or else the seniors will have to come back after their graduation to fulfill the number of days the must be in school. But adding hours onto a school day “just because” is ridiculous. We spend enough time in school already, and with all the extracurricular activities that kids do today, we wouldn’t have time anymore for anything extra.
that is toooo much
NO, SCHOOL IS TOO LONG ALREADY.
ehh… I already go from 7:40-2:35 and that’s enough for me. It should start later though, I never get anywhere near enough sleep.
as a kid my self. NO WAY! sorry but school puts stress on the kids and they need tiime to do work and get a social life. that would be a better way to prepare them for the fututre.
Meep!
I can’t even handle 8:15 to 3:00!!!!
Poor poor kids…
We have Saturday schools in replacement of afterschool detention.
It’s a plus minus sort of thing but it’s wokring up to getting the troubled kids more help and the trouble makers off the streets.
no, America should disband its educational system in order to create a new generation of retards
no, that’s ridiculous. States put too much into test scores, and way too much work on the teachers and students.
i think schools are just waisting time, which is why they need even more time. i go to a private school that goes from 8:00-3:00
I don’t think longer school days is what we need. We need less classes and more time spent on the classes we take.
probably.
no. i already stress to much about school with only 7:15 hours of it. more would drive me insane.
No. What you learn has more to do with your dedication to learning, and less with the amount of time you spend pretending to do it.
I homeschool, relationships come first, then skills, with academics third. I rarely do school past noon. Funny thing is, I always manage to pull off the 99th percentile on the national achievement tests.
I’m homeschooled but I still think that 8 hours is just too much..
no!!!!!
FUCK, NO.
No. On the one hand we need to help them be motivated. On the other hand we don’t want to turn them into workaholics…
no way.. and 7:30 is scientifically proven to be too early for high school kids!
I disagree.
We don’t need extra hours to improve academic scores, we need to find a way to encourage more students to shape up and do their work when they have to.
NO
I think schools need to concentrate on making the time spent at school more efficient.
That said, I think before and after-school programs are one of the best educational investments we can make (well, other than making all 3-6 yr olds go to Montessori preschool
). It really makes a difference.
a lot of people have enough trouble finding time for extracurricular activities as it is…
No, they need to spend less time under the malpractice of the government schools.
i spend 6 hours n 15 minutes in school
I’m not sure if kids NEED to spend more time in school, but I do have some ideas of what could be done with extra time in school.
If school days are increased to eight hours I believe the lunch hours need to be extended as well, especially for younger students (by ten minutes or so). Elementary recesses should be extended or added back in and middle and high school students should have a break or two or longer time between classes. Anyone with any knowledge of child development can tell you that kids are more focused in classes after having had a break where they were allowed to expend their extra energy.
Any of the additional 1.5 hrs of time that is left after extending lunch hours and adding breaks should be used as tutoring or enrichment time. Those who need time to get help with assigned work or to work on that assigned work should do so and others could be participating in other enrichment activities such as art, music, industrial arts, home economics, parenting, employment readiness training/coaching, or even additional courses from a tech school or college. I am not suggesting the arts etc be taken out of the regular school day, but rather that those with interests in these areas could use the time for further enrichment.
I like the concept of block scheduling for high school classes, and possibly middle school as well (I’m not sure about that one yet). However, I believe for block scheduling to work for those age levels there needs to be a 5 minute stand up and stretch, get a drink, use the bathroom break. Even college kids need these breaks. I find that after about 50 minutes of my 75 minute classes I am starting to not pay attention and that a break at that point would be helpful. My 2.5 hr classes always take a break that is much needed by the time it comes along.
A benefit of school hours mirroring a first shift work day would be a reduced need for expensive after-school childcare and fewer children left unsupervised after school.
no! about 8:30-4 is good enough.
No, what kids actually need is more time with family… not crammed in a classroom and not stuck in their bedrooms with their face glued to a screen… but real, meaningful, heart connection time with family members who invest their lives into one another instead of following the “successful views” of the world.
yes. the longer they’re in school, the more likely they’re learning and staying out of trouble. i say…work ‘em all day long.
I don’t see how it will make much of a difference.
That said, I think before and after-school programs are one of the best educational investments we can make (well, other than making all 3-6 yr olds go to Montessori preschool ). It really makes a difference.
Posted 2/24/2007 2:19 PM by mightymarce
Kindergarten readiness is a HUGE indicator of school success. If a child is already behind when they enter kindergarten it is difficult, if not nearly impossible for them to catch up! While not everyone has the means to attend preschool, other forms of kindergarten readiness can and should be used. Birth to three programs and programs such as “Parents As Teachers” and “Kinder Play” groups can help dramatically.
oh god no!
No! I play a sport in the fall and spring, tutoring and service hours required for classes and clubs (80 hours), church on weekends and once a weekday…. I’d be so so so swamped if school went until 5:00. Then sports would go ’til 7:30… ugh I can’t even imagine.
this will face a huge stumbling block with the labour unions!!
That’s bullshit! No, we don’t need more time in school.
Wah?! Those poor kids! I got good grades in school but hated it so much, I was so happy to get out of there. Bumping up the extra hours without putting them to good use is worse than useless. How about improving the way classes are taught, and cutting down on bullying & lack of good resources in the classroom, first?
I think how much we spend (about 6.5, the average) is all we need because we don’t lose our minds by the end of the day, we get more time to blow off steam.
Technicolor.
no, it does not give proper oppertunity for students to participate in sports and other stuff like that and still be able to do well in school. Besides, why should children be forced to have longer work days than the average full time worker?
Michael
Wow,majority of people say No. Part of me wants to say yes. But really i dont think it will help. So my answer is No.
Fuck no. I’m miserable in school. Most of my classes could be taught in half an hour instead of an hour and a half. What about kids who have a job? Who need money? Taxes go up, stress shoots up through the roof, teachers became even more discouraged, and more students will want to drop out. 7:30 – 2:15 is wayyy longer than enough for me.
Thats a long, long time. Making school from 7:30 to 5:00 at night (!) will just make kids resent school even more. Plus, that means kids basically can’t have a social life. What about sports and friends?
At the time in ones life when they’re in school, their life should be at least half about school, but not the whole part.
If there was not homework, it would be a bit different. But no homework? Yeah, right.
no no no no no no no NO
If they want more time in school, how about giving us less off days.
Since January we haven’t had a full 2-3 weeks without a day off. Half of which were totally pointless.
i dont get home from school till 9 o’ clock on some days because of extra carricular activitys
NO NO NO NO
NO.
If my high school had gone to that I peobably would have gone completely mad and started killing people. Some kids are really pissed off at school. Plus, I rarely learned anything from sophomore year on so going an extra 1.5 hours a day would have been nothing but a waste of my time. What they need to do is make more efficient use of the time they have them already.
NO, and that’s not just because I am in school.
no, but they need to stop wasting time in school. I lived in Germany and the kids got home from school at noon, then spent hours doing their homework. They have much better test scores than us.
Only if it means no homework. =]
I think if they extend school hours now, there will just be an increase in the amount students skip classes.
Seven hours is enough for my school. Half the students have ADD and have a hard enough time sitting still for that long as it is. We also get a lot of homework and I usually go home at 5 anyway because I’m on the journalism staff. Having me start journalism at 5 would make it impossible for me to get anything done.
nooooo…i go in from 8:00-3:00, and 3 days a week it’s 7:00-3:00, plus there’s after school clubs and stuff. that’s enough time for me, thanks.
I think that’s pushing it. Keep in mind the hours of homework that kids have to do when they get home from school. Plus teachers would never get things done for class.
Too many risky trade-offs.
NO!
that’s really stupid.
gah. eight hours. i think the kids would go nuts.
Unfortunately the schools will use the longer hours to continue to brainwash the kiddies with more social engineering nonsense and environmental wacko stupidity instead of math, science, English, writing, history, and geography.
My high school has an odd system. We are what is called a University Model School. We meet on a Mondays-Wednesdays-Fridays schedule from 8:20 am to 4:00 pm (I leave at 3:00 pm because I already have enough P.E. credits). Our classes or 55 minutes long, and with a 30 minute lunch break, we are able to fit 7 classes into the day. All electives are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I end up having two classes on each of those days. Sports practices are fit in wherever the coach chooses. We have eight or more hours of homework assigned every full day (M-W-F).
I would say that 8 hour school days are fine if, and only if, the homework load is lessened…and I say no to the school on weekends.
heck no.
why is it, i ask you, that european schools are able to let the kids be in school for merely 5 hours on most days, with occasional longer days, and their children score far better?
the amount of time spent in school should not be the reason why kids do better.
No.
Depends on the quality of the education.
yes we do
Hell no.
Kids have to have lives outside of school, or they’ll die of stress.
Overwork leads to nervous breakdowns..
With all the time they waste, they could get more with the same hours they use now
It depends on the kid. I’m a sophomore in high school, and I don’t need any extra time in school; neither does my sister, who’s a freshman. However, I also recognize that we’re both pretty gifted in the school department, and I know a lot of kids who could deal with spending a little more time on Biology as opposed to Myspace.
fuck no. maybe you’d increase test scores, but you’d also increase school shootings. As in I will shoot someone after 8 hours of school.
I don’t think more time changes it much, but it can help. They need better teachers, too.
eew no
Kids in our town are having longer school days because we’ve lost so many days to snow this year. The kids hate it! The teachers have really had to get creative to help keep the kids interested.
hallllleeeeee naw
i personally think that is a horrible idea…as a student i can barley make it through a 6 hour day without wanting to fall asleep due to long classes….doing work for that many hours straight is painful…i can only take in so much in a day really….its bad my grades would probably plumet
Yes.
this was wrote in support to Hillary.
she is a woman who was married to the president.
she whent on to become a rep. of new york.
now she is running for president herself.
but from 7 – 5 and on Saturdays.
school periods will become a thing of the past.
school block times will be everything.
all classes will be the same time and lunch will be at the end of the day.
if elected this is something like what she wants to do.
all the schools will be on the same times and will get the same days off
no more differant weeks for spring breaks abd so on and so forth.
sadly the department of education will be under alot of pressure.
why not have the kids go to school on Saturday????
Saturday school sounds great.
why are they off on Saturdays anyways?
i ahve always wondered why no one attended school on Saturday?
its not because of Church.
Church is on Sundays.
Sorry if youre Cath; thats the Sabbith. Same damn thing.
Having school on Saturday sounds like a great thing to do!!
Oh, my. NO!!!! Spoken from one who enjoys her time at school. We spend enough time required at school. Add in time due to extracurriculars and the before/after school review sessions. This is all going down to what problem my parents and I are dealing with in the next year-and-a-half. I can do what I need to do in school, but I can’t live. You must spend time learning to live in the real world. Outside of a school building.
I cannot believe that is going on. Weeekend school hours? Even more school time? Please spare us!
Quality over quantity.
So, in other words, no. =P
NO! There is already too much stress in the world. But then again, it might lessen the stress on parents. I don’t know. As a kid who just graduated from high school in May, I say less time in school is better. But as someone who doesn’t particularly like little kids, maybe more time is better.
If you can’t learn something in 6.5 hours, I kinda doubt you can learn it in 8. Sometimes education just has to be your personal responsibility. Can’t be spoon fed your whole life.
Hell no. These godammned politicians have no sense whatsoever on what they’re doing. We’re supposed to be learning to socialize with the real world not learning about pie and grammar. You can’t exactly use what you learn in school if you aren’t given the time to learn to communicate with others.
As it is, there’s a reason our education system is beginning to fail. Not to mention, the school budgets, we barely have enough money to support public schools. Now you want to extend it and screw up the economy even more? There’s already enough homework, really with the internet wouldn’t it be better to have students meet around like three times a week and have longer homeworks? While this could lead to cheating however.. so that won’t work so well. But as it is, there is already simply too much school.
The commute to my school is currently one hour. That would mean that I’d have to wake up at 6:00 AM to prepare and leave for school and I’d arrive home at 6:00PM. And seeing as I need 8 hours of sleep, I’d have to sleep at 10:00PM. Now I’d have 4 hours to complete my homework and hopefully have time to have fun? Too bad the sunlights gone, so much for sports! Really, this is perhaps the most retarded idea ever. Dragging away all the childhood.
If they want to make our system of education better, maybe they should look at why they’re falling behind. Its not just because we have less time in school.
We’ve giving more time for people to read and everything in a prison, oh I mean classroom, and what about exercise?
Oh man, we’re gonna get even more fatter! Wooh, smart idea Robin Harris.
I don’t think so. Thanks to some extracaricular activities, some of my friends practically live at school.
gosh that is crazy… esp. .since im gonna be a teacher
We meet for seven, and I think any more would be excessive.. I’ve never really not learned enough due to time constraints.
No. They need to learn about life. And make their own goals.
Looks like extended day care to me…sort of like head start programs. Get them out of bad and/or unstructured homes or away from working parents who can’t supervise them and off the streets and keep them busy. It would probably work well in those situations, but as a homeschooling parent, we did about 4 hours of work a day on average and when my kids went back into public school at high school level, they all hit honour society and zipped on into college.
If nothing else, a longer school day would keep kids at school who would otherwise be roaming unattended. Would the teachers be paid more?
yes. that way they would be out of my hair longer and off the roads more.
you know i was reading somewhere that they have had children k-12 doing online classes. now that sounds keen.
I think it is a fairly good idea for, at least at first, elementary schoolers. Middle school is questionable, and I think it should definitely not be tried in high schools until the benefits are proven for the younger students. High schoolers lead potentially busier lives, and are often committed to sports and other after school activities. Also, by that time, they should be mature enough to be able to further their education on their own, voluntarily. So it would not be a bad idea to instill this idea into students’ minds at a young age, when their schedules are more flexible, etc. As with anything else, the theory needs to be tested extensively before being turned into a mandate.
Also, the atmosphere in school needs to change before this can work, as well as the attitudes of teachers/administrators/caretakers, etc. If students are going to be in school for so long, they need to be cared for in a loving, accepting, tolerant, respectful, etc. etc. fashion. If school is going to become an even bigger part of a child’s life, it had better be a nurturing part. If school is going to substitute for time at home, it had better mimic the atmosphere at home.
no, they just need to cut pointless shit like homeroom. the most pointless 40 minutes ever.
I think the school year should be longer, but not the school day!!
What the fuck is all this about the “real world”? Everything around you is the “real world,” is it not? But then, you do spend like 1/3 of your non-adult life in school, so I suppose it should be made more “real.” Burn the textbooks.
“yes. the longer they’re in school, the more likely they’re learning and staying out of trouble. i say…work ‘em all day long.
Posted 2/24/2007 2:25 PM by happydeviant“
Even though we would just take that extra time to get in more trouble at school. It’s also actually the LESS likely we are to be learning. We waste too much time as is. My stress, with more school….would be too much.
Time won’t do anything unless it’s used wisely.
So I’d say no, that and I don’t want to pay any more taxes for it.
My schools have always been 8 hours. o_o But it really sucks up my day. I don’t have much time to do anything major when I get home.
o_o As stupid as this is to mention, after I already posted it, students in our classes also have to come to school for 8 hours on Saturday to do extra work if they break the dress code(polo shirts tucked into jeans with a belt).
of course all the kids still in school would say no, generally. because they’re lazy. hate to say it but american kids are just too lazy for that to work. they’d put a whole bunch of energy into making sure it doesn’t happen when that energy should be focused on educating themselves D:
Maybe if they eliminated homework, but I used to spend 7 hours a day in high school and about 4 hours a night doing homework, plus I had a job, so 9.5 hours would have killed me.
I’m a bit surprised at this. I’m studying to be a teacher, and most experts we study seem to think the school day should be shorter because kids’ and teenagers’ attention spans aren’t that long. As a general rule, kids shouldn’t have to go to school more hours than their parents go to work. And Saturdays are definitely out of the question, for religious reasons if no other. Would Jews have to go on Saturdays?
No. That’s ridiculous. Parent’s should work with their kids at home in order to get their kids to improve academically.
Oh, OF COURSE!!! It’s not like us high schoolers ever do anything outside of school, like music, dance, or sports. *rolls eyes*
On the other hand, I wouldn’t mind having an 8 hour day if we weren’t given any homework, and we were just expected to study for tests and such.
No. The time they have needs to be spent more productively, not on busy work and sitting around talking for 10 minutes before the class gets started. Making them go to school longer is just going to make things worse. I agree with the person who said kids need more time with their family and friends and for outside-school activities.
I don’t care. Sure, why not.
People in Asia spend like…10 hours and look at how smarter they are.
No, it would be bettr if kids spent more time at home.
If parents are working during those same hours, then it is probably better than being home alone.
Screw that. The school day is long enough as it is.
Please, no more! My school already meets almost 8 hours a day. 8:15-3:45, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Friday and Monday we get out at three-fifteen. I am NOT coming in on Saturday!
In some ways, I say yes. That’s if they added some more breaks so that the kids aren’t having to sit still for so long.
I was talking to a new science teacher the other day. She said she came here because the job at the school she was teaching at before (that started 07:30 and ended 17:00) wasn’t good for her because she has a two-year-old and she was spending too little time with him.
I sure wouldn’t want longer school hours.
Kids are having their childhoods sucked away as it is. My 11-year-old sister is being assigned research papers. >.< I hardly spend any time with my family as it is, what with being at school for 7 hours and coming home only to work on homework in my room all night. God knows the schools aren’t even an attempt at “nurturing”- most of the time kids are just treated as a number.
I think we’re wasting time with the school days we have already. We don’t need anywhere near 50 minutes for each class. More and more I’m finding that actually going to school is practically unnecessary; I can just do the work at home and copy notes from someone. Busy work, busy work, busy work… agh. I can barely (and not always then, either) pay attention in 50-minute classes; who knows how much I’d space out if school lasted for 8 hours. I’m predicting more skipping, more sleeping in class, more disruptive behavior…
What about everything we’re expected to do outside of school? Extracurricular involvement or volunteering are nearly mandatory for colleges these days. Sometimes I don’t get home from my activities until 9 anyway; how is this going to work with longer school days? What about students who have a job? Are they supposed to work the entirety of the weekend (thus losing more sleep)? Kids in high school are learning to drive, but when are they going to have the time for 50 hours of supervised driving and all the other requirements for getting a license?
How are we supposed to do our homework and study? This might actually impede progress. Kids are already tired when they come home from school, now they won’t have any time to rest before starting homework and they’ll still be up late working on it.
Also- 7:30 AM is much too early for teenagers as relative to their circadian rhythm. Our system makes us want to stay up late and sleep in, but instead we’d be forced to stay up late (doing homework later) and get up early (earlier starting time) so we would lose out on sleep big time. Students don’t learn well when they’re tired. We’ve had several two-hour delays lately, and it’s amazing how much more efficient and attentive I am when I’m actually awake.
School on Saturdays is just mean. What, one day off? Ridiculous. School in the summer is mean, too- no vacation? What’s that about? They already ruin any “break” time we have by assigning massive projects over vacation days.
“I think the big mistake that everybody makes is they think that education is all about the academics.”
Um, duh. It is. We don’t need to add more school time so kids can get sex ed cheering classes or whatever.
“students are staging musicals, designing book covers for favorite novels and coming up with new cheers to boost school spirit”
I mean, that’s great, really. If you like doing that stuff, go ahead and do it. I’m not going to stop you. But these should be things done outside of school. We shouldn’t be forcing longer school days on people so we can do musicals during the school day or school cheers. Electives are nice, but if the price of that is getting home at 6:00 and getting up earlier, I’ll pass. Anyone who wants to spend extra time on this is welcome to it, but everyone shouldn’t have to go longer just so we can have some “offbeat” classes.
Wasn’t the whole point to increase time for learning these key concepts that students are failing at on the tests? Aren’t the test subjects pretty much the core classes? How is it helping us if all we’re doing with that extra hour is adding a ton of weird electives so students will get “involved” as opposed to hating the longer school day? We wouldn’t have to solve the problem if we didn’t create it…
Just say no to longer school days.
no. that’s stupid. the fools needs to work harder.
i don’t think it would help that much
shouldn’t test scores not matter so much? its not how long kids stay in school but the quality of education they’re getting.
No!
Not at all. I remember spending hours in school that were worthless, doing time-filling activities, and then being sent home with hours worth of homework. It would completely remove any bit of childhood that children have left. They would be at school for hours, then do homework for hours, and then as they got older, spend the rest of their waking moments in extra-curriculars that are so important for colleges. Test scores are not everything, and it is possible to give a good education without keeping them there forever. We need to improve the quality of our education in this country, not the quantity.
I dont know that they need more time…just BETTER organized time. Kids do need time to be kids. My son who is in 1st grade only gets one 20 minute recess per day. I think a longer day with a few more breaks in it would be beneficial to the kids. Maybe year round school instead…( 9 weeks on, 3off, 10weeks on then 5 off) I went to a year round high school, and we liked it because it seemed like we didnt get as burned out. My daughter goes to a H.S. that is set up a lot like college (4 classes to take each quarter, providing a more intense focus on each topic).
There are a lot of different options out there.
GODLORDNO.
A longer school day!! Wow, I actually think 7:45 to 2:30 is too long now! You know, I’m curious as to why some adults believe that taking our free time from us will actually make us have better scores. Many kids will still get the same grades they were always getting, now we’ll just have less time to study. I don’t think that adults understand that we have hw, too, like 5 hrs. a night. Just because the work day ends for adults as soon as they leave, doesn’t mean that it does for us. Hw is still school. We need time to do it. Longer school days will mean more hw and more chances to fail when we run out of time to do it. We also have things to do after school, like sports and clubs. Some of us also have a time we have to be in bed by. So, they’re really just hurting us, and our social lives. Also, we’ll probably still have to be in school 180 days, right? They won’t shorten our school year to give us a longer summer? No? I didn’t think so.
Oh, and year-round schools don’t work for the schools in the warm climates. There’s sort of a reason why some schools have a “summer break”. It sort of gets really hot in the summer, too hot for school, especially when the school is too cheap and will try to hold out before putting the air-conditioning on. I don’t think you know how some school’s are these days.
More time in school is not the solution.
I’m homeschooled as of this school year. I end up spending at least seven ish hours a day on school work. I don’t think they should extend anything really in public schools. Kids would go insane. (Well worse than they already are.)
NO. PLEASE NO.
it wont make my testing scores go up.
i’ll be too bummed that I have to be there that long to pay attention.
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most people aren’t sure of what they really want in life. I
received this
letter from a friend on the computer, did what it told me to, and
within a
week, everything I had wished came true!! Here’s an exact copy,
this
really
works!!!!
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1. To yourself, say the name of the only
guy or girl you wanna be with 3
times!
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2. Think of something you wanna accomplish
within the next week and say it to your self
6
times!!
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3. If you had 1 wish what would it be? say it to
yourself 9 times!!!
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4. Think of something that you want to happen
between you and that 1special person and say
it to your self 12
times!!!
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5. Now, heres the hard part! Pick only 1 of these wishes and as
you scroll down focus and
concentrate on it and think on nothing
else but that wish.
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Now make one last &final wish about that one wish
that you picked.
After reading this, you have 1 hour to send it out to 15 people,
and what
you wished for will come true within in one week!
u only get one chance!!!!! Now scroll down and think of your
crush!!!
Keep going
down
Keep going
Keep
going
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Did you think of your crush? I hope so, that was
your last chance. Now pay very close attention this important
message!
Sorry but once read, must be sent. Yes, this is one of those kinda
chain
letters that everyone hates. This one has been going since 1864
and
if you
break this chain, you will pay!!!!!! Remember that after hearing
these
stories.
First Example:
Take Barbra Wallace.. She was a pretty lucky girl,
up till she got this same chain letter. She had a crush on the same
kid
since kindergarden. when she got this mail she didn’t pay any
attention to
it. She just thought, no big deal. And deleted it. The next day her
dad
got fired and her mom dies in a car crash. If she would have sent
the
letter none of that would have happened and her mom
would be alive.
Second Example:
Try Freddie D. Now Freddie D. was your average
nerd. Had glasses, was short and chubby, was in gifted. All the
signs of
your total dork. He also received this letter and sent it to 51
people in
the hour. Now, like Barbra, he had a crush on a girl since 3rd
grade. The
next day after sending the chain the girl confessed her love for
him ever
since 3rd grade. Freddie D. finally had the courage to ask her out,
and of
course, she had been waiting to yes to that for years. They grew
up
and
married each other to live happily forever.
Third Example:
Now if you couldn’t relate to the others, this’ll
get ya hooked. Listen to this. A kid named Jordan Johnson was just
getting on AOL to check his mail. He was a quiet kid, not that
popular but
not a geek either. he was just normal. He saw he had mail from his
friend. It was this exact letter. Now Jordan Johnsen was a smart
kid and
he knew what could happen if he didnt pass it on. He simply pulled
a few
friends from his buddy list and sent it along. The next day,
about
that
same time, he got a phone call. It said he had won the lottery!
then his
dad came home and bought him a new bike! His mom bought him
Nintendo64 and
play station! His grandmother sent him a new computer, and his best
friend
gave him tickets to the concert he wanted to go to, Kid Rock and
Limp
Bizkit! Then he inherited a brand-new tv from his aunt! He was
goin’ wild!
the next day his secret crush asked him out, and they have been
going out
ever since.
Now, you heard the stories. I know
which person i’d rather
be, but thats up to you. I wouldn’t wanna end up like Barbra but
thats
only me. We all want what we cant have but now’s ur chance to go
out with
that special somebody ur waiting for. Take it or leave it. If you
send
this to-
1 person- you will lose all luck in ur love
life…..forever!!!!!
10 people- your crush will say they like you as a
friend……ONLY!!!!!
15 people- your crush will say they like you
20 people- your crush will ask you out!
25 people- your crush will kiss you!!
30 people – Your crush
will have sex with you
35 people or more- All of the above!!
Don’t blow it, it’s ur chance to shine! Have
everything u wanted, and more! Now, complaining cus u dont have any
friends. Well theres an answer 4 everything. It’s simple, just go
in a
chat room, pick some names and send away! but here’s the
catch…..you only
have one hour to send it after being read. Please pass this on
NO!
please, no… 8 to 3, ’tis long enough for me. I think the problem is not how much time we spend in school but what we spend that time doing, along with resourses and good teachers.
no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, probably. In HS, I went from school from 7:30-2, that was long enough for me!
Sinners
i go from 8:05 to 2:59. most days i stay until 4:15 for band, and rehearsals for that are a hundred points apiece.
ha, my 10 year old brother and i were just discussing the picture in the corner. he said “why is jesus in a spilled cup of coffee?”
Another question this raises: are parents really concerned about better education, or about making sure their kids are busy and cared for while they are not there to see to them?
I think the last thing kids need is more school hours; they’re away from their families too much as it is.
It’s not that schools need MORE time in school. They need more productive time in school.
NO!
No way. I am speaking as an 8th grader, but between school and homework, we already get enough “school” in one day. We need some time to relax.
NO
uh hell to the no. we already spend much too much time in there….do not add another hour and a half, that’s torture. Test grades would not go up….the kids will still eb the same, they won’t pay attention, they’ll still slack, they’ll just slack longer than before because it’s a longer school day. Making them stay at school longer doesn’t help anything…..