Shortening the school day will benefit everyone all around. “Providing additional time can be an effective tool for improving students’ outcomes, but how that time is used is most important,” Jim Hull said (Hull). Students can learn the same stuff we learn in a shorter amount of time. ¨Lengthening the school year, while maintaining the same curricula and teaching methods, isn’t the answer,¨ …show more content…
¨In our modern world of education, the average student ranging from all grades and ages go through a school day of seven to seven and a half hours. Although these hours are thought to be such a short period of time, they are the motive for high stress within teens, as well as the loss of valuable sleep and the deterioration of education¨(amsmith355). Long school days are stressful and boring. “If stress is too high or too low your kid’s performance will suffer,” says Dr. Bernstein (Bernstien). High stress is going to affect students performance.“Parents can have a tremendous impact on how a child handles the stresses of school, but it is the child who is sitting in the classroom and taking the test” (Bernstien). Parents have a huge impact on student stress and if students have stress they are more likely to do worse on tests and other school