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Longer school day the answer?

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buckeyefool;763816; said:
I don't know about thump, but for me the longer day would not be good because a few reasons. One was pointed out was teh kids attention span, for the younger kids. They are going to get tired and be less productive at the end of the day.

For high school kids you will run into problems with if the kids can work a part time job or if they are in sports how late do they end up being there for practice and when would they do homework?
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A longer school day should allow for more "play" time to be built in which then could help with the attention span issue. Hell, when I was in elementary school, we had a 15-20 minute recess in the morning, another one after lunch, and a 10 minute recess circa 1:45 pm. When my kids hit elementary school, they only have a 15 minute recess at the end of lunch. This bothers me a little bit. So if the result is a less harried pace which then has more "play" time for the kids (like when I was a youngin) then I think a slightly longer school day is a good idea.

A longer school day, for me at least, is only relevant to the elementary and middle schools, but moreso with elementary school. Hence none of the issues that you mentioned for high school students are relevant. (And I don't mean that to diminish the issues you raised, just that for me I wouldn't consider lengthening the school day for high school students.) What could be done to help hs students is starting the school day later than what many districts currently do. Classes beginning at 7:30 am is ridiculously early for a hs student.
 
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buckiprof;764271; said:
A longer school day should allow for more "play" time to be built in which then could help with the attention span issue. Hell, when I was in elementary school, we had a 15-20 minute recess in the morning, another one after lunch, and a 10 minute recess circa 1:45 pm. When my kids hit elementary school, they only have a 15 minute recess at the end of lunch. This bothers me a little bit. So if the result is a less harried pace which then has more "play" time for the kids (like when I was a youngin) then I think a slightly longer school day is a good idea.

A longer school day, for me at least, is only relevant to the elementary and middle schools, but moreso with elementary school. Hence none of the issues that you mentioned for high school students are relevant. (And I don't mean that to diminish the issues you raised, just that for me I wouldn't consider lengthening the school day for high school students.) What could be done to help hs students is starting the school day later than what many districts currently do. Classes beginning at 7:30 am is ridiculously early for a hs student.
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Couldn't have said it better.
 
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I'd think that extending the school year would work much better than extending the school day.

Especially with the younger kids, there is only so much time in a day that they will be paying attention.

as the kids get older and mature, maybe you could extend the school day a bit, really doing more than 8 hours in any single day is overkill IMO.
 
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scooter1369 said:
Ok. Why not extend both? 8hour days and Year round school?

180 days of school pans out to about 36 weeks. I say we extend it to 200, 40 weeks. 12 weeks off.

4 sessions, 3 separators of 4 weeks.
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i think you are missing the point. if we get all these 2nd and 3rd graders in the work force we can almost fix the social security issues over night. sure we ruin a childhood here and there, but hey their great grandparents called that the "american dream"
 
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jimotis4heisman;764295; said:
i think you are missing the point. if we get all these 2nd and 3rd graders in the work force we can almost fix the social security issues over night. sure we ruin a childhood here and there, but hey their great grandparents called that the "american dream"
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Wouldn't you like 3 four week vacations a year?

10 weeks off is too long. You spend the first month of school getting the kids caught up again and acclimatized to school again. And hell, keeping the kids in school an extra hour a day is better supervision than most of them get at home.
 
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Extending the school day hurts high school students. Many of us have not only tough school days already, but have to deal with sports practices, and jobs. I value the free time that I get, and making the kids stay at school longer each day only puts on more stress.
 
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