Friday should be part of the weekend when school is out.

Thanks to my opponent for continuing. First, my argument about pro not affirming in his first speech went completely unanswered. Therefore we should toss his entire round two. As for my argument, I will assume he accepts the suggestion to add hours to the school day. His arguments seemed to be based off that. First on job conflict, Pro: Teens should just get weekend jobs. Of course, many of those weekend spots are already taken by sports players who can only work weekends because of practice. Keeping that in mind, there's not going to be enough room for every teenager with a job to only work weekends. Secondly, my argument was about teenagers making less money because school lasts longer under his system. His solution magnifies this problem by suggesting that teens should only work 2 days a week, which will cause us to lose even more money. Next, overscheduling Pro: Teens are already overscheduled, so a longer school day would be "no surprise". Turn this. If teens are overscheduled already, then he worsens the problem by making school last longer each day. Just because its "no surprise" doesn't justify making the problem worse. Alternative Pro: We can just cancel Friday for non-high school students First, this tacitly concedes that cancelling Friday for HS students would be a bad idea. Secondly, we've both been talking about primarily teenagers, which are generally in high school, so he's changing his advocacy quite a bit. But whatever, he can just take Friday away for elementary and middle school if he wants, my other disadvantages still apply. Biological clock Pro: Teens can adapt to having to get up earlier I can also adapt to eating three pieces of bread a day. That doesn't mean I wont suffer from anorexia or malnutrition. In the same respect, teens probably can adapt to getting up earlier, but they will still suffer the consequences from getting less sleep than necessary, such as lack of focus and higher absentee rates, which were also outline by my source three. ' Plus, we shouldn't have to adapt against our biological tendencies. Schools know teens are wired to sleep late, so they shouldn't try to go against that by forcing us to go in even earlier than we already do. Financial incentives First, all of these financial gains were new arguments presented in round three. Its an unwritten rule that no new arguments be made after the opening round. I'll answer them nonetheless. Pro: Less fuel cost for buses There are ways to reduce fuel costs without causing the disadvantages previously described. For instance, schools could use Unleaded gas-powered buses instead of the standard Diesel powered buses that most schools use. This saves almost as much money, as Unleaded is 30-40 cents cheaper per gallon than Diesel. (1) Pro: Lighting, heating, electricity costs reduced by taking a day away Nope, they'll be the exact same since the hours lost from that day will be added on to other days. For instance, if I have a 5 day week and spend $100 a week on something, that's $20 that I'm spending each day. You'd think taking a day away means I'd only spend $80. But because hours from Friday are distributed into all other days, so would the costs. So I could only have 4 days of expenses, but since the $20 I would spend on Friday is moved into Monday through Thursday, I would spend $25 each of those 4 days, still equaling the $100 I originally spent. So in reality, money isn't saved by affirming, its just redistributed. Popularity Pro: 90% approve of Friday being taken out They wouldn't if they knew the disadvantages. My opponent himself admitted that he wasn't aware that school hours would stay the same. For these reasons I negate. 1. http://operationupcycle.org...