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dude i agree that school shoukd be longer. but if it is longer then we should have only say three days a week. Because eight hours for three days would drive both teachers and students to the limit. but hey i have to do this topic at school so yea:)
yeah I already wish we didn't have any hoidays but being in school is a lot more fun than being crampe up at home working and and getting bored studying with friends is a better way to spend time
yes beause by the time you walk to school and get in class it has already wased ten mins and that means more lunch breaks!!!!!!!!!! and there longer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, school days should be twenty hours long and there should be after hours for the idiots, also teachers should have guns and students should have pointed sticks and limited food resources, there should be concrete barriers between all races, religions, and sexual orientations, hate should be thought as a subject.
Students that arrive without homework should be tortured using ancient Chinese methods (like death by a thousand cuts, but stopped at 999 cuts for obvious reasons) and then taken out and beaten with the butt of a gun until they admit they were lazy bastards. :):):):):)
Being that I dont know about the specifics of you Idea I will say this, only if the animal in question is capable of killing a human, otherwise it would be unfair. Imagine child versus chicken, this would not be just. I would say that child versus kobra or Cheetah would be good sport. Keeping things fair of course the child would be armed to the teeth with tampons and candy canes:)
Bring me this Robot laser Chicken, I deem him awesome and wish to deploy him in other ways than child fighting, such as bothering the elderly, and infiltrating governments to weed out short people and fish related propaganda.
very well, it will be done, on on day of this month when the moon is full and the chickens are at their strongest, i will fuse together a unholy alliance of chicken and lazer. if you hear some loud cackling and someone screaming
"ITS ALIVE!!! ITS ALIVE!!!! MUHWAHAHA!!!!"
then i shall have succeeded. i may not survive the experiment, so if the chicken gets on the run, i would suggest getting a band of at least 30 bear hunters form Russia, this may in fact not be enough, but it will be your best shot, and if you need to destroy the chicken, remember
the weak spot is always the last place you would look
Please do me the favor of staying alive at least until the procedure is finished after that you can die, I will give a great eulogy at your funeral, it will go like this:
cwmdulais was a crazy fucker, he defied logic and science by grafting lasers on to foul in order to keep students in line with their studies and to promote the idea of fair fighting amongst helpless animals and dangerous tampon wielding children. It is in his dedication to the cause and his good will unto his fellow man and animal that he will be remembered.
His achievements will be remembered for many decades to come if not centuries, His main work was in poultry bothering and in this he was successful. he even managed to graft a ball bag to a chicken! Good bye friend, pioneer, lunatic. You live on in the terror of school going children.
Are you following me around this site or something, if you look at the context of the posts you would realize that it was a joke, but I forgot you have no sense of humor.
I left school when I was sixteen, which is very early by Irish standards, I am now as a twenty eight year old man resuming my education trying to get a degree in Biochemistry. So I am in school right now.
You're right about the nature of current curricula, but what you're suggesting is a better selection of classes. Students could definitely benefit with tutoring time and studying time in school.
I would disagree. If class time was used wisely in the first place, we wouldn't need extra tutoring and studying time. In a lot of the high school classes I've been in, the time could be used much more wisely as to cover the curriculum. Teachers don't need more time to teach, they just need to use the time they're given more wisely.
No. currently school days are already very long; on average about 9-10 hours. By extending school days, we not only decrease our productivity (we will be subject to more stress and fatigue) but also cut out time for leisure and time spent with friends and family.
However, for some individuals, going to school is an excellent opportunity to bond and socialize, and take part in co curricular activites
I would agree with that last part, but making school days longer (and likely to go with that classes longer), we're not going to be increasing the amount of time we're spending with our friends and such. Besides, much of that can be done outside of school (assuming that one has the free time to).
Bull crap are school days 9-10 hours. Public schools are 6-8 hours, unless you go to private or charter schools. Private and charter schools are supposed to be better than public schools and that's why they are 9-10 hours, because they try to shove as much random junk in their students heads just so they can say that they're smarter when half of it doesn't even relate to everyday life and is completely useless. School days should not be longer. Oh, and if you think that American school students aren't as smart as other countries like Japan and China, just look at what students take those test that give them their results. Japan and China test their top students and America tests all of them, no wonder Japan and China are leading education. All of their tests are being taken by all their smartest students.
No they should not be longer. On average, students are already spending 7-8 hours in schools daily. To remain focussed across this long span of time is evidently a tough deal for many kids out there, look at how often students doze off or become talkative because none of that knowledge is going in. Students are also bogged down by tonnes of assignments and projects that are to be done out of curriculum time. To increase time spent for curriculum would mean less time left aside for such assignments, students will feel the pressure the work round the clock and this deprives them of sleep or other activities that are crucial for healthy development especially in youths. Longer curriculum hours can imply a bigger scope of syllabus covered within this span of time and teachers as a result issue MORE assignments. Students have even less time now, for both school work and themselves!
The main idea of a school afterall is to equip youths with the knowledge applicable to keep society working and seek to improve mankind as a whole, not work everyone out such that it becomes a mad rat race for all students out there, vying for top positions in classes and cases of resorting to cheating or other unpleasant behaviour to secure top spots arise. This is an ultimate irony, schools are suppose to promote importance of moral values but this insane competition is driving students desperate. Sadly this is becoming more prevalent, a result of long school days, increasing difficulty in syllabus, increasing amounts of assignments, less time for students' own reflection, time and space.
man i bet 10 dollars that most of the people who say school should be longer is parents, nerds, and unemployed people b/c younger ppl are gettin jobs faster than the older ones. Get a Life! and stay OUT of ours.
yes going to school also means a lot of fun you get to hang out with friends and i'm not a nerd but iI love going to school and I'm 14 but at home I've got loads of work to do help mom, help my sis, and sit with dad and study that's not fun
but to sit with friends and study, help friends, and help each other is a lot more fun than household work.
I would bet my life savings that you're wrong. (SPOILER: Eleven Dollars)
I attend school, perform actively in athletic competitions, perform at A+ standards despite the class, and most of all, classify myself as "beyond" a nerd. Your common nerd will most likely be too busy jacking off to the girl next to him in his Physics class to be posting here, so I'd better fill this in.
I'll take my life and I'll use it to tell you that school days couldn't get shorter. Your logically minded average Year 12 student could tell you that. By increasing a standard school day by, say, an hour (in terms of a 9:00 to 4:00 day), it wouldn't be pushing too many buttons.
It seems that we can say that school days should probably be a tad longer, but as the topic details, we couldn't get much further than that.
Oh, and one more, 'small' thing:
"and unemployed people b/c younger ppl are gettin jobs faster than the older ones."
Gee wizz, you really worked hard on that one.
The use of slang demonstrates that you didn't put too much effort into writing this, so I'd say that you didn't fact-check before you wrote this out. As it turns out, younger people (as in those within school) are limited to part-time work. If unemployment was an issue (in terms of what you have said), then it would be on a part-time basis; something that is quite laughable.
your right i didnt think about it Bater no need to get all proffessional i was just speaking my mind. get used to it. and dont waste your energy explaining it to me youll epically fail. You should get a sense of humor b/c you clearly did not catch the sarcasm in what i said :|
Okay, my apologies, I should have guessed that you were a full-time illogical CD'er.
This is why so many logical debaters leave the site; because the "sarcasm" excuse is popping up in every debate! Did you even realize that sarcasm is a 'tad' harder to notice when you are typing with an unclear tone rather than speaking? I would assume not; that in itself is an epic fail.
On the contrary, I do have a sense of humor, as is evident in my first post in this debate (which you seem to have failed to notice; another epic fail). I argued back against you with logic... and you want to call it all a joke?
God, this is ridiculous sometimes, people like you who won't debate with logic are sometimes just wastes of space. If you argue with sarcasm make that clear before you conclude. This way, I don't need to pick up on this crap and get annoyed over it.
Alright, before I get more off-topic, I'll just say that if you want to argue a point then argue it; don't play around with sarcasm that nobody can really see.
As an Australian, it's a hard call, but I would assume from what I have seen and read that he's making his efforts where he can. The education system of America is something that I am very short-sighted on, I'll admit that, but if it works on par with Australia, then I'd state that Obama needs to look at the problems in education and get them sorted fast, otherwise debates like these may become more "political" than any of us may like.
since its so important to you i will next time be serious so to speak since you obviously take it serious and i will tell when there is sarcasm when i speak just for you
Maybe if you actually tried to learn something (you'd be surprised where the ability to spell can get you in life), or perhaps did a sport or other extra-curricular activity, you might find that there are some good things about school after all.
I'm disputing simply on the fact that it's not right for you to be disputing that prior comment on the basis of his spelling...also you can clearly tell that he/she is joking...nobody really spells like that...particularly someone who would be arguing for less school.
Insults aren't arguments. This one serves to counteract yours.
I'm sorry you thought my post was an insult, but trust me, I know people who actually do spell like that and don't even try to learn-I guess I was jumping to conclusions. The point I was trying to get across is that you can do things like trying to improve and extra-curricular activities to try and lessen school boredom.
Some people say that American schools are way behind the rest of the world's education systems. Japanese students go to school for 9-10 hours a day or more, and then go home and do homework. Plus Japanese school years are 243 days compared to America's 180. So pretty much what Japanese kids are doing is: going to school, doing homework, sleeping, going to school, etc., then they get jobs, go to work, retire, and then die. What fun that must be mates! Those last few sentences were a bit random.
and also,, there should be lesser school days because according to my observation 70 out of 100 students gives up their education because or tons of homeworks, project, preparation for quizzes , recitation points, examinations and many many more.And also, wen they give up there education, youths will think that there would be no brighter future for them which results that they will become hopeless and wen they become hopeless, they will just give up their lives also....
and also,, there should be lesser school days because according to my observation 70 out of 100 students gives up their education because or tons of homeworks, project, preparation for quizzes , recitation points, examinations and many many more.And also, wen they give up there education, youths will think that there would be no brighter future for them which results that they will become hopeless and wen they become hopeless, they will just give up their lives also....
