Longer Weekends

I have been in school for 10 years now, and never once was I thankful for a Monday morning to come around. Weekends are too short, and we spend too much time in school. In this blog, I am going to highlight the main points about why weekends should be longer.

First of all, kids and teenagers around our age need a lot of sleep, and when we don't get that amount of sleep during the week, because of too much homework and extracurricular activities, our immune system crashes and that's just a disaster. So to fix it, we need to get extra sleep on the weekends, which is why teenagers are always sleeping too late (yes that's right, it's not just because were lazy.) But we also have other things to do on the weekends, such as sports tournaments, socializing, and spending time with your family. Top that all off with all of our homework, and were completely out of time to do everything! So what do we cut out of our schedule? We wouldn't have to make that decision if we had just one extra day on the weekend.

Another point I have to make is that we spend like half of our lives as kids and teenagers in school. Doesn't that seem ridiculous? If we could have another day of weekend, that would enable us to see our family more, and develop better connections with them.

One major problem teenagers have is stress. Stress from their homework, their extracurricular activities, and their busy lives! Time is very valuable, especially when dealing with stress because the more time you have, the less stress you have.Obviously the solution is a longer weekend. Stress can lead to mental illness and many problems, and we should be doing as much as we can to stop stress in teenagers these days.

With all the extra time we would be able to do our homework and assignments more accurately, instead of rushing through it all and making mistakes. It would give us more time to study for tests, therefore we would get better marks. So it's a win-win situation! The teachers have smarter students and the student have more time on their hands.