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Originally posted by AGDee
My other concern for elementary students is whether they have the attention span to focus and truly learn for an extra hour each day. My 7 year old son is busting at the seams with energy when he gets out of classes. I'm not sure there are many 7 year old boys who can handle an extra hour of "sit down and listen" in a day!
I can see going to a schedule like this for middle school and high school students. I would love that.. when the kids got to be that age, they could clean the house and do the laundry and EVERYTHING on Fridays! Woohoo!
Dee
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In South Carolina, students in critical need areas already go to school all day if they are in elementary or middle school. From what I have seen, the longer day is beneficial to the students even if they just catch up on work or do homework because most of the children would not have gotten the homework done at home anyway. I really think longer school days are beneficial to inner city kids especially because they are at school longer and are off the streets at least until their parents get home.