Weekly Entry #14

Weekly Entry #1/13/12Educators debate extending high school to five years because of increasing demands on students from employers and colleges to participate in extracurricular activities and community service in addition to having high grades. Some educators support extending high school to five years because they think students need more time to achieve all that is expected of them. Other educators do not support extending high school to five years because they think students would lose interest in school and attendance would drop in the fifth year. In your opinion, should high school be extended to five years?In your essay, take a position on this question. You may write about either one of the two points of view given, or you may present a different point of view on this question. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.Debate, is the heart of America. America improves, differs, falls apart, and changes because of debate. In this case, different people have different ideas on the academic subject of whether to extend high school to five years instead of four. As educators debate about the subject of extending high school, they have yet to take a random sample of the students across America, and look at the data accumulated. Most of the students will say something near the same old phrase, “I don't want to have another year of school, It's too boring and too much work..” Despite the fact that, most students within America lack the skill set of diligence, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages to extending school like a rock against a feather.