Extending School Hours In High School

Technology has taken control over our everyday life. Everything we use has some kind of connection with the computer. Whether, it’s a state of the art glass building or a car that starts by the push of a button our world has made a transformation from being manual operational to technical operational. To ensure that students are prepared for the future, the board of education should make a transformation also by extending school hours and the number of days that students attend school so that students will be more prepared for the future.

Increasing classroom time will help decrease the high dropout rate and grades will improve. The high dropout rate could one day affect the future technology plans in America because there are not
Gilbert Cruz, a reporter from Time magazine notes, “Educators have been eyeing more class time for Decades.”(2). Adding more time allows the students more one on one time with the teacher and it allows more time for study halls.

Extending school hours and the number of days might also help decrease the teen crime rate. A lot of teens get in trouble during and after school hours when adults are at work. Therefore, not having any adult supervision teen crimes seem to occur in between the morning, late afternoon and during the summer. I think schools need to incorporate more courses into the curriculum. By, adding a debate club, drama class, or theater to the curriculum it would encourage them to want to learn more in school, and students won’t have that lapse time in between school and when their parents get off work to get in trouble or hang out with peer pressuring friends. By adding these courses students will be exposed to more positive peers.. Keeping students in school about two hours extra a day will keep them off the street and in the house with an overwhelming amount of school