What should schools provide?
Schools should provide better after school programs. After school programs exist to improve grades and performance level. A program for after school children promotes a safe environment that will keep kids out of trouble. Families who enroll a child in after school programs benefit in many ways. Improving the way after school programs operate can improve the child mentally, emotionally, and physically.
The importance of a math and reading after school program revolves around getting good grades and improving performance levels. According to the Learning Point Associates 42 percent of children attending any after school program improved the reading grade and 42 percent improved math grades. The way to improve current statistics implements better methods of teaching. Tutors should come up with reading and math games to keep the children interested in learning. When fun learning exists children want to learn and grades increase.
Studies have shown kids that experience emotional issues participate in the after school arts and music programs excel in school. When a student becomes involved in playing an instrument or a ceramics class he or she retains information and develops a greater thinking pattern. Mariah a seventh grader at Littleton Elementary School had a hard time with reading and math. Mariah joined the after school music club where she plays the clarinet. Mariah’s grades have improve she retain information and pay attention to detail. Art and music programs that were removed from the after school should exist once more.
Children benefit physically from after school sports. Students have a significant gain in standardized test scores and better work habits than student that don’t participate. Sports increase academic confidence and decrease aggression. For instance, Mariah a student in the after school program weighed 140 pounds when she started in the soccer program, currently her weight decreased to 130