Should High School Be Extended To Five Years Essay

Educators debate extending high school to five years, due to increasing demands on students from employers and colleges to participate in extracurricular activities, community service, and maintain high grades. Personally, I do not believe that high school should be extended to five years. My reasoning for my position is it would increase drop out rate, the students would not enjoy being in high school for an extra year and want to start living as an adult, and I do all of this in the four year period. The first reason I believe high school should not be extended to five years is that it would increase drop out rate. As of right now, there is a good amount of kids that already drop out of high school before the four years are up. Extending high school one more year would not help this circumstance. Many kids that do drop out, do it for several different reasons. One of these reasonings may be that they get bored of it, and lose all interest in going at all. If an extra year was put into high school, it would cause many people to drop out their fourth year, or even earlier. If we already have problems keeping kids in school for four years without them dropping out, how would adding an extra year to …show more content…
Personally, I do not believe school should be something that the students dread going to. Another year added on to high school may result in pupils not wanting to go at all. By the end of the fourth year in high school as of right now, students show interest and are ready to go on to college, to further their knowledge, get through college sooner, and go into the workforce to make decent money, living their adult life. If another year was added in high school, you would not be able to start living as an adult quite yet, and have to spend another year and a half in high school, graduating at nineteen or