First of all, students should be allowed to have a study hall because they will have more time to complete homework. According to Mona Wang, Jenna Troccoli, and Sophie Lyle, a majority of the 17 million high school and junior high students would agree that they want to relax in the afternoon and not spend the day finishing an assignment due the next day. Most students have extracurricular activities after school such as sports, clubs, and activities which need them to stay up later in the night. Having the students stay up, causes them to get less …show more content…
sleep. That causes them to be angrier and less focused the next morning. Due to this, grades will drop and those students will not be able to take part in sports. But, with study hall, students wouldn’t be as stressed with homework, having them get more sleep and being happier and more focused.
Additionally, students will have resources they can’t get outside of school.
Sure many students have phones and can look up the answers to basically anything. But, homework is not something the phones don’t know how to do. Study hall will give student’s information they need to make a better grade on assignments. Also, if a student has a question, then they can look in a textbook gives them more information about the topic and gives better grades.
Even though study hall is a great thing that would benefit Irons, people have doubts about it. Some people believe that a study hall is a place that kids will play on their phones or talk with friends. But, research shows that twice as much homework was completed when students had access to a study hall. The same study found the students understanding of the topic was
increased.