There needs to be more time in the day, just saying. A twenty-four hour day is simply not long enough for school, homework, extracurricular activities, and if you have a job you can say goodbye to your social life. The planned hours of my day do not make any sense. I have regularly scheduled classes from 7:00 am to 3:30 pm and if my sports practice goes until 5:00 or 6:00 at night that would be a total of ten hours of my day spent at school. Not including the hours of homework some teachers expect students to finish in their "free time"
Workers during the industrial revolution went on strikes because their work hours were too long and their pay was too little. I have not heard of students working toward fewer hours of school, or less homework. They may have thought about it or even acted upon it but I have not heard about a single instance where students actually succeeded in reducing the amount of hours of school and homework. I think it is because students have no respect. Adults do not care to change what they went through when they were in school because they want the new students to suffer as much as they did.
My Spanish teacher shared her opinion the other day of how school should be handled. She thought that the school day should go from around nine to five. This way there would be more class time and kids would get more sleep. There would also be no homework assigned, rather teachers would use the extra class time to do more work. She thought it would also be beneficial to change all sports so that they are strictly club. That way school funds could be used for academic programs. I agree completely with her ideas. Even though more hours at school may take a little while to get used to, if there was no homework, kids would be able to get a lot more sleep and spend time doing extracurricular activities.
To summarize my argument; either extend the hours in a day or the hours of a school day.
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