Benefits Of Extended School Day Essay

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The school board is considering adding an hour and a half to the school day. The extra hour and a half would increase the schools budget. This would also cause scheduling conflicts. Because of the extra hour, teachers and students might become more drained. For these reasons, the school board should extend the school day by one and a half hours. The school board should not extend the school day by one and half hours for various reasons.

Because the school day is extended by one and a half hours, it would cause scheduling conflicts. Adding one and a half hours on to our school day it would affect family time. If we were to extend our day, we would have less time to spend with our families due to the fact that we have more homework …show more content…

It is already hard enough for some people to focus during the day, extending the day would just make it even harder for them. Also, the classes would be longer, making students lose interest lot quicker.,The quality of the work and lessons are going to poor, due the duration of the class. Not only is it more work for the students at school, but it is also more work for them at home. Being that the school day is longer they have less time at home to do projects and homework, their projects and homework assignments are not going to do themselves. The less time they have the longer they are going to stay up at night to try finish their assignments, causing the to lose sleep. The loss of sleep leads to tiredness at school and sleeping during their classes, causing their grades to drop. Their grades dropping will cause a lot of stress on the student as well as their teacher. The student is going to be stressed about if they advance to the next grade or not while the teacher will be stressed about what she is doing wrong for her students to be failing. Meanwhile, the teacher still has to grade papers and create lesson plans. As you can see extending the school day would not have benefiting results for the teachers or

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