Why We Should Be Shorter School Hours

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School hours should be shortened. Without a high school diploma, you cant even work as a garbage man in New york nor can you join the army. A average student in the us spends about 14,256 hours in school to get there high school diploma. That adds up to 594 full days worth of school just to get your diploma. The average school day in the U.S. is 6.5 hours. If we shortin the day just 30 minutes a day it will decrease the hours we are in school by 648 hours, that adds up to 27 full days worth of school. That isn't much of a difference but it can help. If school hours are shortened the students would be less stressed about going to school that would also have more time to do homework and study for tests and schools would have more money for better education environments for students and make it more enjoyable. This is why school hours should be shortened. …show more content…

Longer school days would leave students with not wanting to do anything that involves school. Students will start to slack off and their grades will suffer and they lose interest in school. Rachel Brooklyn a writer for Huffington Post says “By shortening the school days, students wouldn’t be as distressed about going to school and their grades would be higher. Fewer school hours per day would permit students to have enough time to study, complete school assignments, participate in after-school activities and be able to get to bed by a decent hour”.this is saying that students are stressed, and that after school with more students needing jobs to save up for collinge and after school sports that it becomes really stressful to go to

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