Open Year Round Public School Essay

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Public schools are a yearly requirement for people under the age of eighteen. Schools are already opened for ten months a year, five days a week from 9-4pm which is more than 80 % of a student’s entire existing time. From the early age of five, all the way until the age of eighteen, these students by law have to attend school. It would be quite unreasonable and unfair to the students if public schools were to be open year round. Public schools should not be kept open year round because they stress the students, take away family time, and remove any possibility of leisure time. If schools are opened year round then the students will get stressed out. Students already have to deal with cramming a ridiculous amount of classes in a day for a decade and a half. Adding to that amount will only cause the students to become mentally exhausted. The additional unnecessary school time will cause students to lose interest in studying at all. As a result of all these combined factors, student’s academic performance will decline all over the nation.
Furthermore, by keeping schools open all year and removing vacation time will take away the student’s already unfair minuscular amount of time they get to spend with their family and friends. By shortening the student’s family time, will result in them getting emotionally …show more content…

If the student’s leisure time is taken up, then obesity will increase because they will not have the time to participate in sports or have time to exercise on their own terms due to school. Since school would be absurdly lengthier, students will not have much time to be able to socialize since they will not have the time to talk since there would be so much work going on. This will lead to introverted students and will make people apathetic and cause destruction for the future. Finally, students would not have any time to rest for themselves and recover from the prolonged school