Because the normal school day goes form 9 to 4:20, students already don't have much time to do homework, relax, eat dinner, and do extracurricular activities. And a lot of students struggle already trying to do their obligations, but if school is extended then more students could start to fail.
But if the school board did extend the days then students could have more time to learn and teachers could go slower in teaching their lessons. But, while students could learn as a class their would be less people and time for students to go to tutoring.
Although if the school board were to extend the days then a lot of make up days from bad weather could be luckily avoided. But if you would ask the students about this, most of them would argue to make school days not as long because it would be even worse than making up a day.
So I think that schools would more greatly be affected or benefit if they keep the school days shorter so students could have more time to do outside activities like homework, tutoring, work, and extracurricular activities.
Another thing that the school board has talked about has been the removal of some of the students late start days which could possibly help with the problem of make up days.
And if the board were to get all of our late start taken away, then the possibility of adding hours to the day could maybe go away. But some students might not like this new rule i bet they would rather have no late starts and less hours at school than vice-versa
But there are solutions to the issue of makeup days that do not require late starts to be taken from the students.
And sadly students would spend about 4 more days of school and would spend an additional 224 hours at school. This means that the students would lose multiple days worth of time for homework, extra curricular activities, and some time for people who need to be tutored. You would also lose a lot of time to just relax and hang out with friends or go out to eat with your family.
So if the school days are made longer, then slot of students could start to get migraines or become very negative towards everything that they hear or do. And in conclusion school would become a lot worse and could cause a lot more problems then usual.
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