School Days Effect

The Impact of School Day Length

Students often complain about school and that it lasts forever. The truth is that they may be right or wrong because there’s reasons on why it is just long enough and why its too long. Even some teachers think that school days should be. But does the length of school days affect students?

Students nowadays don’t get enough sleep with school during the day and extracirruclar activities after school. Even some teachers don’t get enough sleep because of stuff they have to grade or prepare for the next day in the classroom. The healthy amount of sleep someone is suppose to get is ten to eight hours a night, the average student gets less than that. It is stated that “ Adolescents lost as much as 120 minutes of sleep

Some never study or can’t because of their after school schedule often has work or other plans which force their day to be packed until the night time. So grades for some high schoolers aren’t something they can brag about or really talk about. These students sacrifice grades for sleep because they often have long days or haven’t slept well for a few days. “ According to the majority of studies dealing with the relationship of education time to student achievement looked at the total number of school days or hours students are required to attend school”( de Angelis “ Length of the School…”). Students also have to go to school a required amount of time as well and that differs with each state, so to change the length of school days, the state has to approve lowering the minimum amount of school time required. So even lowering the minimum amount of school can make school days longer or shorter which can impact what studies have to learn in a class period. If the school day is shortened then students are forced to learn more in a day to makeup for lost time. “While other studies focused on engaged time or academic instructional learning time”( de Angelis “ Length of the School…”). So length of school days may be better for a student for sleep or other activities but it can also put more pressure on the student during the shorter days and may end up

They might say start school later but have the same amount of time in school. The reason why that might be better is because a shorter school day can mean more homework and less free days in the school year and less activities the school can host during the day. Even teachers would have it harder because of shorter days because they would have to try to fit a certain amount of material into a shorter day. A longer school day would actually help improve school days by focusing on a subject more. “More time for science and mathematics and a longer school day correlated with higher test scores in all subjects”( Wheeler, “The relationship…”). Time is key in school because the amount of time your there during the day. “The connection between length of school day and time allocated to ten school subjects”( Wheeler, “The Relationship…”). The reason we’re also behind most countries is because of our education system so really shortening the school day would affect us hugely. Which would put us back further in the education system. “While kindergartens in North America are typically half-day programs, kindergartens in many Pacific Rim countries are full-day, and some in China are full-day.”(Mayfield, Continuity among early…”). There’s also a lot of other reasons for why the school day is the length it is. “Organizational continuity includes such factors as