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Why Students Have Longer School Times

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Many students in that Anaheim Union High School district follow their normal school routine. This routine begins with waking up and being ready to start class by seven-fifty a.m. School ends at two-thirty seven pm. and many students go out with their friends or go home, but the truth is that this isn’t helping the average student to go to college and succeed, living a happy life. In order to increase student success at Anaheim schools, the school board needs to increase the number of school days and have mandatory study hall hours after school. Gladwell, the author of Marita 's Bargain states, “KIPP students do three extra weeks of school” (10). KIPP schools are highly prestigious schools in which 90% of students get scholarships to private or parochial high school and more than 80% of students will go to college. This clearly tells us that a number of school hours a student …show more content…

Gladwell also claims, “What that extra time does is allow for a more relaxed atmosphere” (10). This means that when students have longer school days they have time to do homework at school, which means that teachers and the students are not feeling rushed to finish their objective for the day meaning they are more relaxed and have a higher learning span. The amend is very important to the schools in Anaheim because students will have higher success rates in the area of getting accepted to college. Students will be happier because they will not be as stressed therefore the classes go smoother than normal because of the change of school days.

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