3.14.12 - State Bill 24

I do not think any of these proposals for the State Bill 24 would encourage kids to come to school. Like yeah maybe it will help our education in a tremendous and great way but if we made school days longer, it will affect our sleep schedule. Students are not going to want to wake up in the morning just to come into school for more than 7 hours a day, 5 days a week. I definitely have no doubt that it will, increase the number of drop outs that the school has. We already have students that talk about dropping out just for the hell of it. Also, it will increase the number of tardy and cuts that teachers have with their students. Students will wake up later so they can skip certain classes . At least they are not coming to school and falling asleep at their desks or disrupting the class and being rude right? I know for a fact that I would not be coming to school every day if they made school days longer and the school year longer. That would take away our 2 1/2 months of summer that we get off every year. Having an increase in rigor for our school will also higher the amount of students that transfer to school that do not have much discipline or a high consequence level like our schools will have if we go forth with these proposals and higher the rigor, lengthen the school day and the year. I think it is total ridiculousness.