School; Should it be later in the morning? Everyday, my alarm wakes me up at 6:35 AM, and then I continue to hit the snooze button until 7:20 AM. By the time, I have no time to: do my hair, makeup, or pick out cute clothes because I am beyond tired and didn’t get a full 8 hours of sleep. When I get to school, I can barely function throughout the rest of the day. In my opinion, school should start later in the morning, rather that right at 7:50 AM. Waking up early in the morning can cause such things like: lack of memory, alertness, attention, and moods. “Researchers have shown that even a modest delay in school start time (30 minutes) produces improvements in measures of student mood, alertness, and health in adolescent students” (Hanover Research, 2013). I know that when I wake up in the morning, I am always not very happy because I just want to go back
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Most home schooled kids could get through school day in 3-4 hours. Countries such as Finland don’t base their class on standardized tests and help each and every student. “ In a Finnish classroom, it is rare to see a teacher standing at the front of a classroom lecturing students for 50 minutes. Instead, students are likely to determine their own weekly targets with their teachers in specific subject areas and choose the tasks they will work on at their own pace” ( Sahlberg, 2007). Unlike the United States, which has been imposing more external testing (Sahlberg, 2007). Finland shows every education system that “Less is More” by having less homework, starting school between 9:00 and 9:45, then having school out by 2:00 or 2:45, teachers also have shorter days (Day, 2015). Why doesn’t the United States follow in Finlands footsteps? We don’t have to be bigger and have everything better. We could simply cut down school time, the standardized tests, and it would make students more, happy, less stressed/ anxious, and even teachers
Most home schooled kids could get through school day in 3-4 hours. Countries such as Finland don’t base their class on standardized tests and help each and every student. “ In a Finnish classroom, it is rare to see a teacher standing at the front of a classroom lecturing students for 50 minutes. Instead, students are likely to determine their own weekly targets with their teachers in specific subject areas and choose the tasks they will work on at their own pace” ( Sahlberg, 2007). Unlike the United States, which has been imposing more external testing (Sahlberg, 2007). Finland shows every education system that “Less is More” by having less homework, starting school between 9:00 and 9:45, then having school out by 2:00 or 2:45, teachers also have shorter days (Day, 2015). Why doesn’t the United States follow in Finlands footsteps? We don’t have to be bigger and have everything better. We could simply cut down school time, the standardized tests, and it would make students more, happy, less stressed/ anxious, and even teachers