Jaclyn Melicharek's Four-Day School Week

Should school districts change a five-day week policy to a four-day week policy? That question is debatable. Jaclyn Melicharek is the author of, "Four-day School Weeks: The Rule to Skip School" she writes about, her opinion on the matter if school days should be longer or shorter and the benefits and disadvantages it will have upon the students. She believes "Changing to a four-day school week is not beneficial"(Melicharek 96). She feels that it will, "Lower academic performances, hinder the quality of education for young students, and affect the lives of school faculty, staff, and parents"(Melicharek 96). I agree with Jaclyn that changing to a four-day school week is a bad idea. I feel it will cause the students physical, mental, and emotional pain, it will also cause parents many problems, and stop students from learning efficiently.
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"Studies demonstrate the strong positive correlation between time spent in school and academic excellence; four-day school weeks would hinder learning gains"(Melicharek 97). This means that students who have more instructional time, will have the ability to understand what they are learning but, without this, it will cause students to suffer academically in a tremendous way. This can hinder you from scoring well on the future test.
For an example, I am a learner who understands things better when explained in detail face to face. If I didn’t get that face to face detailed experience, I wouldn’t know what I was doing in whatever subject I was studying when I got home. In other words, this means that if students have less instructional time than teachers would switch to different topics faster. Although some students can keep up with the teaching of different topics so quickly, others won't learn anything because they have different ways of how they