School

          It is another Monday morning as my alarm rings at 6:30; I lift my head up in shock, only to hit myself on the head of the bed. I immediately open my eyes only to be blinded by my room lights. I groan dreading having to go to school as I drag my half-asleep lethargic body into the bathroom. There I am immediately awakened by and ice cold shower. Now fully awake, I rush downstairs putting my lunch in my backpack and wolfing my breakfast down. From there I rush to make it to school on time, getting there as the bell rings. I have to repeat this process every single day for 180 days of school. Although this seems like a big number, all the other vacations and breaks in the school year are not taken into accord. It is probably the reason why the United States has one of the lowest educational standards in the world. The lower amount of school days and shorter days contributes to bringing our education standards low. To help this President Obama wants to have more school days in a year and longer school days. For us it is a big shock. As it is our school starts at 7:45 and ends at 2:10, which is a 6-hour school day. But if we eliminate things that are unnecessary like physical education, electives, breaks, and silent reading time, we can keep the same amount of hours in a school day, just with longer time in each core subject. We could also add additional languages to our regular curriculum so that in high school kids will have to take an SAT class instead of taking foreign language because they would have already taken that course. This works out perfectly because this will cause kids SAT scores to go up, meaning that they will be able to actually compete in the global market from college onward.

          Many skeptics can argue that cutting classes like physical education will increase the percent of obese population in America. This problem can partially be solved by tasty food alternatives at the cafeteria. This teaches them the habits of eating right. It can also be solved by requiring 7 to 10 hours of physical activity a week.

Making these changes can save about 3-hours of wasted time and channel it toward foreign language in elementary and middle, and SAT classes in high school. This will make it possible to have lower unemployment rate and a better economy. America must be able to compete in the global market because the future of this great nation lies in the hands of the young.