School Hours Persuasive Essay

I am writing you to hopefully persuade you to shorten the school hours in the state of Texas. I strongly believe that hours shortened at school will decrease all kinds of violence at school.That includes fights,bringing drugs,food fights,and especially skipping which is a big problem at most schools.Students feel as that being at school for 8 hours is too long so they skip class to get a break.This leads to violence in the halls and disrupting of classes going on if the students that are skipping are too loud. If we shorten the days to approximate 6 hours i believe that all these problems will decrease and students will actually attend class knowing the day is not so long.
I understand that students need a full 8 hours of education for them to learn every subject required but that also can be a bit overwhelming for them and half of the time students get brainwashed for all the information and forget.Days shortened will actually have more students do homework and study.Do you think students actually want to be in a school for 8 hours straight? Do you think they care about the consequences of fighting and being disruptive as long as they're not in class?Wouldn't you want to be in the halls running around with friends to make your day more fun and better?Parents usually get very upset when they continuously have to come up to the …show more content…
You might say that violence outside of school will increase but if we provide students with free activities after school they will attend because of course it's free and an opportunity to have fun rather being in school.If school days are not shortened then schools will still continue to have skippers and low grade counts,which i know the schools don't want because they want every child to be successful.On the other hand if they are shortened i guarantee you will see the results and more graduates and more students going to college and being