More School Hours

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School is hard enough for students as it is, but there are people debating on adding an additional one and a half hours to an already long school day. I personally don’t agree to adding more hours to a school day because it doesn’t give time for after school activities, students have to wake up early and go to bed late, and students end up being over-worked.One reason why I don’t agree with adding more school hours is because if school hours are extended than kids won’t get to be kids. They won’t be able to ride their bikes around the neighborhood or go to the park with friends because they will still be in math class. Also they won’t have time to participate in after school sports.Another reason why they shouldn’t extend hours at school is

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