Four Day School Week Research Paper

Education today faces many challenges. Whether a school is faced with tight budget constraints, or the problem of better engaging its students - schools are looking for ways to save money and interest the students. Recently, a proposal has been brought up that Peetz School, who currently hosts a five day school week, should start having a four day school week. There are great benefits about having a four day week, but there are more ways Peetz should keep their school week the same. The advantages of a four day school week are, parents can schedule appointments on the day off so their kids will not miss school. Families can have more time on weekend trips to spend together. Also, children's academic scores increase. Schools will save a lot of money on
Now the first thought for me was that is was only fifteen minutes more than our regular school day, which I was fine with. Looking into it more though, little children are going to get restless and not pay attention to the teacher and won’t learn anything. Another problem with the longer school days is that there will be not a lot of time for extracurricular activities. This means that kids are going to get home late at night and still have homework on top of that. We can’t really remove extracurricular activities out of our lives either. These activities teach us teamwork, responsibility, competition, and diversity. Having a longer weekend kids are not going to be able to retain the knowledge they learned that week. Most children instead, are going to be watching television or hanging out with friends instead of thinking about school. Another concern about the longer weekend is that most kids are not going to be physically active. Which will cause more unhealthy habits. even if they are not playing video games, in a small town like this we are going to have to provide activities over the long weekend to give kids something to