Benefits Of Extra Day Off

Being able to re-energize with a extra day off would benefit nine out of ten students. For one reason, an extra day off helps re-energize so students aren’t as tired during the week. Another reason why an extra day would benefit students is helping re-center their focus. An additional reason why a four day week would benefit a student is enabling a student to catch up on any work that they haven’t finished. I would vouch for a four day school week because we get up early enough during school that we could get more sleep over the weekends to keep up on sleep. A four day school week helps cater the overall health and improvement of knowledge in adolescence.

An article by Buenabands.com stated “An extra day off helped energize students and motivated

So by eliminating a day that they know they can have fun and not have to worry about taking a test, if the day off is before the test they can have more time study. Out of 240 schools that switched to a four day school week the drop out rate went from 8.1 percent to 3.3 percent. Part of the reason why students drop out is because either school is to hard or to stressful. The extra day off takes a big load off of a students shoulders. The extra day could even help the teachers with stress, they won’t have to worry about getting assignments and assessments corrected during the

Even though the kids don’t have to do their schooling on that day off it is highly encouraged. “The only downfall that I notice is students forgetting what they learned over the break. The teachers could assign little assignments over the break so they don’t totally forget what they learned”(Chiaramonte). More reasons why a four day school week would benefit the students is by relaxing.

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I put out a study asking if our school should move to a four day school week. Of the 20 people that answered, 15 of them said yes to moving to a four day school week. The rest voted no but gave reason saying that they would forget to much of the information they learned or that one extra day wouldn’t matter.

Finally, In order to improve knowledge and overall health in adolescence, school districts should switch to a four day school week. A four day school week would help out with kids all over the world to help them with their knowledge. Without proper schooling how are we going to address problems we have in the future. Through all the research it still doesn’t change my stance on our school changing to a four day school