| supermario128 said: I'm all for it since I graduate this year. I agree, kids don't take school seriously. They just do enough work to barely pass most of the time..... |
And having kids sit in a desk for three more hours a day will somehow motivate them to do more work? If anything it'll just make kids even more restless from being confined to one place all day, and make them even less motivated to do anything.
I agree with ph4nt. What is important is to use the time available to us more effectively.
After Katrina, over half the schools in New Orleans were all but destroyed. As a result, my school essentially turned into two schools for a year, with morning classes for regular students and afternoon classes for students from other schools. We had class from only 7:00-12:30, but we got rid of lunch, replacing it with a 15 minute break, and overall used our time much more effectively than before. This was my Senior year in high school, and my Honors teachers still managed to get us prepared for our various AP exams in a timely manner, without adding to the regular number of days for a school year. We actually LOST days because we missed all of September and part of October, but we still managed to be done by early May. Of course, keep in mind that this was a private school (half the schools in New Orleans are private Catholic schools). I doubt a public institution would've performed as effectively.
By the way, that was the best school year of my life. Getting off at noon everyday was awesome.
