March 7 slice

We all need days off from school or work. Our society works this in to everyday life by having week days and weekends, and having the majority of people take weekends off. However, for middle schoolers and high schoolers, this is not close to enough. School cuts into our sleep patterns, making most of us completely useless in the early mornings. This is why I believe that school should be moved to later in the day, starting at 11 or noon. This would increase the learning of students, since they would have plenty of sleep. An increase in learning would result in a reduced need for homework, making the reduced homework time after school into a non-issue, since there would not be as much homework. Also, most would be up early enough to get some homework done in the morning, making the cut out of homework time even smaller.

I also believe that all homework should be assigned on monday and due the next monday. This helps students learn more real world skills, like time management, as opposed to learning relatively useless facts like what day the Declaration of Independance was signed on. Facts like that are what the internet is for. Even if the homework required knowledge that would be taught during the week, it would give people a chance to plan when they would get their homework done.