- Target:
- Students
- Region:
- United States of America
The school year is too long. By the end of the year, I am burnt out beyond belief. We should not have school for as long as we do. The end of August is every student’s annual worst nightmare. The best two months of the year have quickly passed and the weeks of dreadful school supply shopping and anxiety for the next school year have begun. After a minuscule break, we are expected to return to school one grade smarter. Within the first week, high school students are bombarded with loads of homework in every class. The obligation to do homework replaces spending quality time with family at home. And as for hanging out with friends? That part is diminished. Goodbye to spending lazy days watching movies, goodbye to playing basketball or soccer down at the park for fun, goodbye for nine months until next June. The school year is way too long and should be shortened to let students enjoy our young lives.
However, you are really only young once, and students should be able to enjoy themselves for more than two months a year. Combining grades kindergarten through senior year, every student has two years of summer and the other eleven years are spent at school. This ratio is just straight out unfair. We need to go to school for a minimum number of days, but we have half days that count as a day. Also, we have to go to school for a minimum number of hours, but two-hour delays are just wiped out and not made up. The amount of required time in school should just be laid out on the table and done. We should have the school year be shortened at least by a month or two.
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