Introduction: At Dinwiddie Middle School the school board is trying to extend school hours by adding an extra hour. There are many reasons why the adding of school hours would be beneficial to children. It could benefit the children by helping some children with learning the school work. In another way the extension could also hurt a lot of people in the process. Therefore, I disagree with the addition of school hours for a lot of reasons for the main 3 reasons is it creates less time for people to have for after school activities and jobs , grades could go down because of the school hours , and children could become sleep deprived and harm their health.
Body Paragraph 1: The first reason the extension would be harmful is that it could create less time for kids to have for after school activities. In the years sports have gone up in attendance. Sense kids are joining they have practice after school most of the time. But with the extension they will not be able to attend practice, that would force children to quit their sport. Another example is when kids after school sometimes have work and jobs to manage, but if their in school they won’t be able to have a job. …show more content…
In a average day kids have a 8 hour day at school with homework to do at home for a grade. But if they add an extra hour that could affect a student schedule after school. A student will usually have their day planned out with what they do after school to when they do their homework. If they add the hour the grades could decline because kids will become less focused because they would be caught up in
Body Paragraph 1: The first reason the extension would be harmful is that it could create less time for kids to have for after school activities. In the years sports have gone up in attendance. Sense kids are joining they have practice after school most of the time. But with the extension they will not be able to attend practice, that would force children to quit their sport. Another example is when kids after school sometimes have work and jobs to manage, but if their in school they won’t be able to have a job. …show more content…
In a average day kids have a 8 hour day at school with homework to do at home for a grade. But if they add an extra hour that could affect a student schedule after school. A student will usually have their day planned out with what they do after school to when they do their homework. If they add the hour the grades could decline because kids will become less focused because they would be caught up in