The time we spend in school

Have you ever thought about how much time you spend doing things involved with school. Probably not for real. I know that I sometimes exaggerate and say that I spend my whole life at school. That isn't exactly true but I decided that I would take a look at how much time we really do spend at school.

According to the University of Michigan's study kids spend an average of four hours a week on homework and 32.5 hours at school a week. I believe that they were smoking something when they did this study because this isn't even close to correct. I would say that, on average, students spend seven hours a day at school and about four hours a night on homework and that doesn't count activities. I know my day starts at seven AM with what my school calls a zero hour class. My day continues until three forty five PM with an extra class during seventh hour. And I know that most of my school does that same thing. Then you have to add activities.

this site shows a definition of extra curricular activities. I think this is a good list of things that kids at my school do. I know that most of my friends are involved in at least one sport, club, music group, or another school related extra activity. I am involved in speech team, show choir, orchestra, concert choir, and plays at my school. With all of the performances and rehersals that I have for those activities I spend close to 51 hours at school during a school week not in cluding performances on saturdays or once in a while during the week. Ask any one at my school, they spend almost as much time as I do at school and sometimes more.

the question now isn't so much how much time we spend at school but should we be spending that much time at school. Being a high schooler myself I don't think we should spend some much time at school. I spend some much time on homework after school that I end up getting about five hours of sleep a night and I don't get all of my homework done even after all that. This is pretty much the norm when it comes to school and homework. Most of the kids in my class tak e hard class, do lots of activities, and get almost no sleep. This can't be healthy for us and it really isn't possible because we end up doing our homework in our classes because we can't get it done at night. We need a solution but until we find one, we will suffer our way through the hours at school.