School Days

First Day of School in America I face challenges everyday in my life. My family and I moved from Cuba in July 2011, two weeks before I was supposed to start High School. We moved here because of my dad’s work, he is a pediatrician and he had better opportunities here. My mom wasn’t sure about moving here, she didn’t want to leave our country, our house and her parents, and I just didn’t care about it, since I was too little to think that going to another country was going to make a really big…

The Misleading Bandwagon of the Four-Day School Week Tim recently found out that his school will be moving to the four-day school week. His school made the change because of financial reasons hoping the four-day week would save the school money. Tim didn’t care why his school switched to the new schedule, he was just excited that he didn’t have school on Fridays. This excitement quickly faded when Tim looked closely at his schedule and realized that his school day lasted an extra 90 minutes this…

A 4-day Week May Be the Solution How does a three day weekend sound? As a student, a three day weekend sounds awesome! With budget cuts, schools have been desperately trying to find a solution and a four-day school week may just be it. Installing a four-day week would mean a Monday or Friday off of school for students and a great deal of other benefits. Not only would this idea provide financial benefits with transportation, school lunches, and staff costs, but also it could potentially increase…

go to school at some point in their life. Most students in California attend school for 6 hours a day. In Adelanto, CA students learn math,science,language arts,history,PE and an elective during that time. Some students are struggling academically with this kind of schedule. I believe that students do not need to go to school for 8 hours a day to be successful.Having an 8 hour school day can affect us negatively and positively. I believe students should not have an 8 hour school day.…

four-day school week may or may not have a strong impact on academic success, but rather the quality of education during that time (four-day school week) will. The biggest concern many people have is whether or not a shorter week will aid students in their learning, or hinder them. The opinions of a four-day’s impact are mixed, there are educators who feel a four-day week hurt students (Herring, 2010), other have reported higher grade-point averages as a result of switching to a four-day…

I believe a four-day school week is a good idea. It will benefit students and teachers in many ways. There is a lot of stress in schools sometimes. We all need a peace of mind, I know I do sometimes. Sometimes, teachers could really use a peace of mind also, maybe they wouldn't yell so much. It gives teachers time to take away all their stress. Kids can have more time to do their school work instead of handing in incomplete work to their teachers. Teachers can have more time with…

Sitting in my room, I was a nervous wreck thinking about the first day of school. Not just any school, this was high school! My dad said. “Buckle up young man, you’re in the big leagues now!” He was right. I had been homeschooling these last few years at my own pace. Yes, I had done well, but this year would be a true test of my abilities. Could I handle the pressure of high school? The morning of the first day of high school, my dad and I sat down and plotted a course for success. We…

Is four or five days of school better? For a long time, there has been a debate on whether kids should have four days of school or five? School is a place where kids or adults advance to learn and grow. The average day a person spends at school is around 7-8 hours. Places all around the world are either decreasing or increasing the amount of time a person spends at school. Kids should have four days of school. The first reason is, it helps kids or adults to be more relaxed and productive. If…

The first day of kindergarten is interpreted many different ways for many different children. For some, they are terrified to leave their parents behind. Others do not experience the same amount of fear and are more willing to jump out of the arms of their parents and into the mysteries of school. During their first day of school children are forced to look around the playground to pick out what individuals they will choose to be their friends. The boy sitting alone with his finger in his nose,…

Four Days in School When it comes to our students’ education, we always should pay extra attention to the decisions that we make, especially if the decisions that we’re going to make are weighty and could have an impact on our students’ educational performance. In Jaclyn Melicharek’s article “Four-Day School Weeks: The Rule to Skip School,” she makes several claims against the four-day school policy, which is a convenient policy that seems to pervade our schools nowadays. She believes four-day…