Five or Four Days in School When it comes to our students’ education, we always should pay extra attention to the decisions that we make, especially if the decisions that we’re going to make are weighty and could have an impact on our students’ educational performance. In Jaclyn Melicharek’s article “Four-Day School Weeks: The Rule to Skip School,” she makes several claims against the four-day school policy, which is a convenient policy that seems to pervade our schools nowadays. She believes four-day school policy is ineffective and rather harmful to our students, teachers and staff because it reduces our students’ educational performance, deters the academic value that our students are obtaining and shatter the lives of the teachers and
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She argues, “Four-day school weeks would hinder learning gains, leaving students under this policy unable to attain the high level of education received by those students under a five-day week” (97). By way of explanation, the author declares that four-day school policy has done no good to our students’ education, indeed it held them back comparing to students who study in a five-day school. For example, according to a study in Time magazine which shows that students in Europe and Asia who engage in more instructional learning time per year regularly outperform American students in math, science and reading. It’s clear that four-day school policy didn’t help increase our students’ academic level, which is defiantly not acceptable because the major reason our government opened schools is to educate the people and take their academic education to the next level. For instance, one of my relatives who was one of the best students in his class tried a four-day school for a whole year. He barely passed to the next grade at that year, and when I asked him about the reason, he said “When I was at a Five-day school, the school used to take a big portion of the week, thus the school was my priority; however, when I went to the four-day school, I used to have plenty of free time which led me to take interest in activates other than
She argues, “Four-day school weeks would hinder learning gains, leaving students under this policy unable to attain the high level of education received by those students under a five-day week” (97). By way of explanation, the author declares that four-day school policy has done no good to our students’ education, indeed it held them back comparing to students who study in a five-day school. For example, according to a study in Time magazine which shows that students in Europe and Asia who engage in more instructional learning time per year regularly outperform American students in math, science and reading. It’s clear that four-day school policy didn’t help increase our students’ academic level, which is defiantly not acceptable because the major reason our government opened schools is to educate the people and take their academic education to the next level. For instance, one of my relatives who was one of the best students in his class tried a four-day school for a whole year. He barely passed to the next grade at that year, and when I asked him about the reason, he said “When I was at a Five-day school, the school used to take a big portion of the week, thus the school was my priority; however, when I went to the four-day school, I used to have plenty of free time which led me to take interest in activates other than