Should school days be shorter?

Every week students are going to school almost 40 hours every week (8 hours, 5 days a week). Students also start their day very early in the morning When students are in school for longer they are able to learn more and they would have more time to get their homework done, but then teachers, some days have lessons that can take the whole 43 mins to give the lesson and leave no time to get homework done. Some students struggle to balance their life outside of school and school-work. Some students tend to put sports and their lifestyle and “not” have time to do their homework.  So shorter days for students would give them more time to balance school and their life outside of school. 

On the other hand, shortening school days would force schools to extend the days students are in school. In Iowa a student is required to be in school for atleast 1,080 hours every school year. Shortening days will only benefit the students that have sports and jobs after school and not those who have nothing. Shortening days for students affects all students not just high school and middle school students but kids in Primary and Intermediate too. Shortening these days can put many families in financial stress and really be draining for everyone in that family and parents will have a tough time finding someone to transport and care for their young child. 

    I get that school takes up a lot of time out of everyones day but students should have responsibility to get their homework done and balance their life outside of school. I believe that school should stay the same duration of hours that it is now. As i stated earlier shortening school effects all students and puts families into financial stress and shortening school is very selfish for those struggling as is with school being 8 hours. 

 

Do you think school days should be shortened?

 

What would you think if our school shortened the days? 

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  • I feel that school days shouldn’t be longer if they were the school would have shorter brakes and have more days in the summer, that would lead to a shorter summer. I don’t think it would be fair for the staff also, they will have to work twice as hard.the state of Iowa requires 180 days for public schools.

    • I agree, its really tough to make a 43 min plan into a 20-30 min plan

  • I believe that HCHS should do what some other schools do and have the hours and school day the same. Except have every Wednesday be a 2-hour early out. This would give students a slight break every week. However, I feel that our teachers would take advantage of that and assign a lot of homework. So the Harlan staff would have to take action on that. 

    • I agree, the early out thing would be so effective towards all students but the families that struggle finacially would have a hard time finding care for their student til 3 or til they get off 

  • I think it should be shortened or we should hae different classes everyday, i just think school is boring and not fun and if itv was a little easier and more fun i think more kids would stay in school and have fun. If school would go later in the day then no school should stay the same,

    • I don't agree, shortening our days would shorten our summer break. It doesn't allow us to have the time off we enjoy 

  • I don't think that we should have shorter school days because some days we would have to make them up and we would have a longer school year and I don't think that they should make the school days shorter because I don't want school to get over in July. 

    • I agree, school should not be any shorter than what it is now baecause it makes our time off of school so much shorter 

  • I think that school days should just stay the same because some days you just don't ever have enough time to get the help you need in a class or whatever. I think if we had shorter days I think they would give us more homework than classwork.  

    • I agree, teachers would have a really tough time adjusting to having shorter periods to teach

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