Opinion: Things we should change about the school.

We should change the way we go about our school experience from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Some things we could change is allow time in the day for students to take a break. In an interview with Ms.Davenport, the school librarian, she states “ Students should have twenty to thirty minutes of Brain Break as she calls it or meditation time.” No phones, no screens, no work. Just time to rest your brain and to collect your thoughts and allow your mental stability to return to normal. Also when we are on breaks we should increase the length of the break. Fall Break and Spring Break should be two weeks long. The one week period is not enough time to rest from school. When our education system decides how it runs they don’t necessarily think of the students and teachers best interest. They could more smoothly allow the teachers to teach the curriculum that they believe that needs to be taught to the class based on what they know. From a standpoint of a high school student, a bunch of others and I believe that foreign language should be taught in elementary school. When hitting a certain age students begin to forget what they have learned because they tend to retain the information they learned at a very young age. From a personal standpoint, I believe that homework should be an optional assignment to do for those students who need the extra help or those whose failing a certain class. Some might argue that homework is used to allow students to further develop their understanding of the topic. However when most students hit high school where the homework is the most given and most intense they more than likely have jobs and responsibility to do after school so they barely have time to do the homework and it is just hindering their grade. If someone actually does the homework its after they get home and it’s really late. They stay up really late and are tired for the next day. These are just some of the things that need to be changed about schools everywhere.