I strongly disagree with Dickenson county school board’s plan to extend the school hour by one and a half hours in the day. The reasons I disagree are the students and staff have too much weight on our shoulders, also some students have to wake up at five o'clock in the morning and then they get on the bus at five thirty, and the school time is too long as it is. If the horrible idea of extending the school hours by one hour and a half is passed the children will be more exhausted after the day. There would be students that would get home after dark and go to school before daylight. Furthermore if they had to get on the bus before dawn they would be getting up a whole lot earlier.
To begin with, the students and staff have too much weight
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on their shoulders to do some other stuff. We the students are so exhausted after the day is over we barely have enough energy to do after school activities. The reason we the students and staff are so exhausted is we have to do, so much work in a day that we are just about to quiet. But that depends on the day of the week or what happened earlier that week. Most of the kids grades would fall if the school day was extended and the grades would also fall of the stress, and they will fail and will not care. Furthermore, some of the elementary kids wake up at five o’clock in the morning, so they get on the bus at five thirty.
They are exhausted, and want to go to sleep when they are going home from school. As a result they will be more exhausted if the school day was extended, so if the parents had a fun day planned for the child the child would try to fall asleep. Then the parents will want the kid to have fun, but the child will be too exhausted for the activities. Then the parents might have to go home early than expected.
Finally, the school hours is too long as it is because most kids fall asleep on the bus and miss their stop to go home. Then they think their home when they wake up. Then the bus driver has to take them back and it will be later when the child gets home. Also I am tired after school so I stay awake to do my chores. Then I do my homework and make sure I done it right. The school hours are too long because after school activities and that is after dark in the winter.
In conclusion, if they are going to change the time they need to think of the consequences. The students and staff have too much work as it is and it the day was longer it would be a whole lot harder for us. Also the little kids should not get at five o’clock in the morning because they would be too exhausted to do anything in the evening . The school board should think of the problem that would hurt the children. Also they need to think about their day was and then of the
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Ring Ring! Nobody likes the sound of their alarm clock when they’re trying to get some sleep. The article entitled “The Teen Who Woke Up Her School” by Jane Bianchi, the video named “Should Students Start Later in the Morning?” by ABC News, and the infographic called “Wake Up Call” by Sarah McKibben, all talk about the efforts that students are trying to make to change the school starting time. Allowing students to be able to sleep more would be very beneficial to attendance, academic scores, and the student’s energy!
On average, high school students receive about 3.5 hours of homework each night and elementary school students are getting about three times the amount that is recommended, which is ten minutes per grade, so 10 minutes for 1st grade and 50 minutes for 5th grade. Homework takes time to do after school and extracurriculars. If a student goes to school at 9:00 and gets out at 4:00, then goes to an after-school activity from 4:00 to 6:00, they will come home and have dinner from about 6:30 to 7:15, which means that they will probably start homework at around 7:30. This means that high school student would be up until about 11:00 finishing their homework, that’s without factoring in how much time the students will waste. This leaves students with less than the recommended 9 hours of sleep. Students that have to stay up that late for homework will be tired in the morning, even if their schools do start later.
Students may need to nap to compensate for energy expended throughout the day. However, if schools were to start later, adolescents would not have to nap, allowing for a larger window of time to spend with their families after school, even with a later start time. Another opposing argument is that students would have less time to participate in extracurricular activities. However, this issue can be resolved by making practices for sports and club meetings shorter and more frequent to accommodate the schedule variation. Overall, the benefits of later start times far outweigh the drawbacks.
There is multiple facts and reasons to have later start times help students get through the school day. BY helping students get better grades, test scores, and overall better. And teens these days aren't getting the sleep they need to wake up early and go to school. SO that is why school should have later start times. IF schools started later we wouldn't have all these tired and groggy students coming to school we would have students that are refreshed and ready to learn. We will have students that have good grades. We will have students who have better test scores. And we will have students with overall better performance.I what you right now pick up your phone and call your district and say we want later start
School days should be shorter fro students because they do not get enough sleep, have to much homework, and have barley have time to participate in extra curricular activities. A majority of students have sleep depravation due to school. If school would either start or end late students will have a greater opportunity to get more sleep. Teachers expect students to pay attention for 90 minutes while the night before they were up late finishing their homework for there classes. Some teachers do not realize that students have a life and work or have other obligations that take up a major portion of the students.
6:30 to be ready for school is just not enough time. It’s easy to think that. students will just procrastinate even more, but the average teenager is smarter. than you may think. It sounds absurd to think that students sleep during the school day.
If the start time of schools is pushed back, then the end time of school would likely be pushed back in order to make up for lost class time. If the end time of school is pushed back, then after school activities would need to be pushed back as well, leaving teenagers getting to their homes later in the evening which would to lead them going to sleep later. This argument undeniably valid, and there is no easy way around it. In order to not lose academic time, a compromise must be implemented. The start times of schools must be pushed back in order to allow teens to live healthy lifestyles, but the end time of schools does not have to be. Instead of pushing the whole day back an hour or two to compensate for losing the first hour or two, just push the start time back. This may seem counterintuitive because it would lead to schools losing class time. To make up for the lost time, schools should extend their year. Schools should add on an extra week or so, depending on how much school time was lost to the later start time, so that no class time would actually be lost. This compromise allows for better mental health of students as well as increased safety on the roads. It also allows teenagers to participate in all of their extracurricular activities while still getting all of their
If the start times for schools changed to a later time, everybody would be happier. Most people like the sound of sleeping in on a school day. It would be good if kids got to sleep in before school. Lets say one night you get home late from a baseball game and you go to bed around 10:30, you'd have about 10 hours of sleep until you have to get up for school. Ten hours is really good for anybody who has a full day ahead of them.
A school schedule change will affect the traffic patterns, morning child care and work schedules for the parents and they don’t think schools should have that much power of communities. But the school start time will help kids in the morning because they will leave the same time there parents do when they leave to go to work and get to spend more time with their parents in the morning. Parents of athletes will also benefit because their kids game will be later and they won’t have to miss work to go see their kids play.
I think if they get more sleep, they would stay awake in class and be more focused. For instance, in Wake County, North Carolina they did a study on how a one hour delay in start times affected middle school students. It turns out that their standardized test scores increased by 2 percentile points in Math and 1 percentile point in Reading. From this study they learned that students with below-average test scores were affected the most, and that later start times would “narrow gaps in students achievement” (“Do schools begin too early?”). It has been proven through this study and others that later start times would improve students grades and
Leigh Ann Morgan states that “ delaying schools cause fewer mood changes in teens.” If we start school later there might be a chance of less behavioral issues with kids and their rude mouth but they will just go to bed later if they don't have to get up early states Bernard Tranford. “If they start school late it will affect teens natural sleep pattern because they will go to bed later”( Michigan Health). Affecting teen’s natural sleep patterns can be bad; also for them to be staying up very late is
If a student was a part of a team or club at their school, they would not be able to meet or practice until later in the day. The same goes for teens who have an afterschool job. Both issues would force teenagers to go home at a later time, which means that they have to stay up longer working on assignments due the following school day. According to Pannoni, some school districts will only alter the school starting time of their high schools, which causes families with multiple kids that attend more than one school to still wake up around the same time so their siblings are not late to school. Ultimately, any kind of schedule change would require students to shape their afterschool activities around it whether it means dropping a club or requesting less hours at their workplace. At first it may be difficult to get comfortable with this new schedule, however, just like any other routine, over time it will become integrated into their
Schools are so much a part of our society, so the accurate length of school days is extremely important. Public opinions on the length of the school days are different. There are a lot of parents and professors concerned that it is hard for children to go to school early in the morning and stay there the whole day. On the other side, some professors try to force students into a nine hour school day. Not so many years ago, school was a main part of my life, and the school days’ structure and length affected my social life and ability to study. From my own experience and some studies that I have seen, students benefit if school days are long.
Many people are resistant to change, especially if it involves reassembling their plans and procedures to adjust to the new schedule. This is a problem for parents’ work schedules since they most likely will not be able to see their kids in the morning which will leave students unsupervised when they get ready. This is also a problem for transportation since parents will not be able to take their kids to school which might cause traffic and more costs since bus schedules would change too. According to the Sleep Foundation, "If elementary students have the earliest start times, they may be waiting for the bus in the dark early mornings, or waiting at home alone after school." Later start times are thought to solve tardies and absences, but if students cannot get to school, it does not solve anything. A change in the school schedule will result in disorder in many people’s daily routines perhaps having to discard certain activities to fully adjust to the new schedule. The changes caused by a new schedule affects students
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