Four Day School Week: A Bad Idea

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I think that having a four day school week is a bad idea. I think that having a bad because having a job that won’t have a four day work week. I also think that having a 4 day school week is a bad idea is because the American School system is failing. There are some students that count on these lunches for food and having a four day school week causes them to not to be able to eat as much. I think that having a four day school week is a bad idea because the real life doesn’t work on a four day work week, it is still a five day work week. When students go get a job they won’t be given Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off, they will have to work Monday through Friday. Life doesn’t care if you don’t feel like doing anything on Friday all it cares about is someone actually doing their job. If they can’t do their job on Friday then they will find someone that will …show more content…

There was about 22.1 million kids that participated in the National School Lunch Program on a typical day through the 2014-2015 school year. 22.1 kids that depended on school lunches to actually eat and enjoy themselves instead of having to starve. Most of these kids live in a low income family meaning that they can’t afford to have their kids get lunch or sometimes dinner due to taxes and bills that they have to pay. Having a four day school week could be beneficial to some students but I think that it’s still not a good idea. Having a four day school week causes students to be unprepared for the real life. We also have a failing school system and having a four day school week schedule would only put us further down the charts instead of us climbing up the charts to be the best. The final reason why having a four day school week is because there are students that depend on the free school lunches to eat something since they live in a low income

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