Extending School Hours
One of the hottest topic in school is the proposal to lengthen the day .School officials wants to extended school an extra hour a day. The administration must really look at this plan before enacting it. To many, it seems logical to keep the day as it is. Extra hours means extra pay for employees and school upkeep. Also, students will return home late, and finally, this will take time from extra curricular activities.
With increased hours spent in schools, teachers would expect more pay for their work. No only teacher, but also custodians, secretaries and other support staff would demand increases. With the extended day comes more time that the heat, electricity, and water must be used. Where could the school systems come up with this money? Schools already have money problems, why add chaos?
Safety is also an issue. Come wintertime, students would be arriving and leaving school in dark, which would make it difficult for parents, and require a better bus system, which would also cost more money. Come summertime, there would be a need for air- conditioning because of the heat that plagues the classrooms.
The one change that would most disturb the students concerns after-school teams and activities. If school end at 3:31 and, and others 4:30, it would be almost impossible to have interscholastic meets.
For All these reasons I truly Believe that, Education leaders should Reconsider their upcoming decisions and, find another approach.