Adding 2 hours, Can it make a difference?

 

September 5, 2012

     There have been many debates on whether or not schools should start two hours later and end two hours later. An average high school  usually ends at 3:30pm, if they add two more hours school would end at 5:30pm, which in some places it has already turned dark outside.  This new adjustment would take a horrible toll on students and their activities to do after school and their homework. The new timings would also throw off some parents schedule with their own work. Working hours are generally beginning at 8am, if they have to drop their kids off in the morning, many issues will arise.
     Many students play sports and/or have other responsibilities to do after school before it turns dark. If the time of school needed later, players would be forced to stay till late until their practices would end. Another example is, some students do have part time jobs, and this new timing system would force them to change schedules, which they might not be able to afford to do. The additional two hours would result in students having a short amount of time to do homework, projects, and studying for exams.
    In high school, students will find that as they move on to new grades every year, their homework amount increases. If a student, has for an example a basketball practice, they would come home at 7pm minimum. This would only lead to either staying up very late at night doing homework and other work or sleeping at normal time and afford to get a bad grade in their classes. The effect of all high schoolers doing extremely bad will occur, which will bring the schools grade overall come to a decline.
     Many students complain about waking up so early in the morning, but honestly they would much prefer waking up earlier than staying in school later. This concern has been there for awhile, so a vast majority of people must see the bad effects of it. Not only will this take a toll on students but the school.  Other then sports and jobs after school, dinner, family time, sleep and more will be effected.