School Year Extension

Thank you for accepting, and ruining my title. All right, I shall start with a regular school year, which is 180 days. This seems normal but most countries around the world have 200 days of school. Now we may think this is not that much of a difference but for the slow students this gives teachers extra time to help them, if I could have twenty extra days to practice math in school with a teachers help who knows how much better I would be. This is not even counting on the Asian system where they have maybe 240 or more days of school. Let's keep this round only talking about 200 days though, we will get into more later, if the challenger can help it. Let's start with European countries such as France. They run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m and have a half a day on Saturday. Is this truly bad? It may get in the way of early morning sports here in America but we can easily get around it, and some people don't even get up until 12 p.m.(say some because some are early birds). I don't think most people would get up early to see a friend here in America since most boys are playing video games late into the night and girls may have some late night parties, sleepovers or as it is here in my area talking on facebook all night. Now this isn't everyone but may be a good enough majority to stop the Saturday school day. I for one would love to get up on Saturday and go to school. It will help me be productive and I would be able to go directly to a friends house on the bus instead of going home and asking my parent or his parents to give me a ride to his place. I think this would get some people on board with this idea. See in Europe they have it divided into sections of 7 week periods. So 7 weeks of 5 and a half days of school, with one or two weeks vacation in between them. So it is basically Christmas Vacation in every single quarter of our school years. Any one who hates this idea I say would just want to stay home instead of going. I would love this to be in America. It is efficient and gives us a break instead of having one day off here and there. I shall go onto Russia, they are just like us but instead of just quitting school like a small to medium percentage of students from a school may do, they have 10th grade ending mandatory school but have a great alternative. They allow you to study trade skills or even study to get into a university. This is also a great alternative for America. It may not extend our years at school but with the studying trade skills or even to get into a university is great. It helps students who went out of school to prepare for life instead of going back and getting a GED, for those who don't want to go to a university the trade skills help them get a job instead of working at Burger King their entire lives! Now for schools who have the exact same curriculum as us, such as Spain. They have almost the exact rules for school as us, go from kindergarten until your 16 then you can quit, but instead of the kids doing nothing with their 2 months of extra time in the summer they almost have to go to a summer camp whether it be for sports or practicing their English skills, but if this was in America is wouldn't be for speaking English. I have a small school that only offers German and Spanish languages. I would love to go to camp in the summer to learn Japanese, Mandarin, or French. I find if we had longer years we could possibly offer more courses. I shall leave my arguments at this and await for your responce Danielle. I await to see your opinion of this topic. http://www.infoplease.com... http://pocketcultures.com... I shall be using these sources in the later rounds so don't be confused if you see them again.