Some argue that there should be four-day work weeks and a long three day weekend. But how are teachers going to cram that much work into four days of school? Is there no catch? Will school just go on like normal, resulting in longer school years and thus shorter summers? How much would we really get out of school?
Luckily, there is an efficient solution to that concern: six day weekends. That’s right, six days of no school. However, that seventh day will make up for all the six days that were missed. It will not be an ordinary school day; it will be a twenty-four hour one. A school day during which students attend classes, sleep inside the school building, and eat all three meals…for twenty-four full hours at school.
To overview this policy, there would be breakfast and dinner in addition to lunch. The school day would start at 09:00, starting with zero period (which would be mandatory for all students to take). In all, there would be thirteen periods, with additional time for the three meals and sleep (sleep runs from 21:00 to 07:00 the next day). Adding on, long after school, there will be loads of homework assigned to each student to fit all the week’s curriculum. What if the students get burned out? There will be short breaks in each period, lasting five minutes maximum. Each period would last at least thirty minutes but no longer than fifty minutes.
Of course, you’ll see some new adjustments with this new schedule. An example could be the period before going to bed, or twelfth period. During this period, students would get ready for the sleeping period. Students would excuse themselves to the bathroom to do their usual bedtime routines. There would be showers in each bathroom equipped with high privacy if students desire.
Well, that’s only for the people who want to sleep. It actually isn’t required to sleep during the sleep period; it’s only just recommended. Some students are calm and sleep eight hours. Others? They blast karaoke loudly, have loud pillow fights, cheer loudly for their favorite sports teams, doomscroll, or hold a League of Legends tournament. The teachers won’t be obligated to really take into account the students that really want to sleep, so they don’t step in to calm down the loud kids. So the students who actually want to sleep bring in noise-cancelling earbuds and play white noise in them, as they don’t want to have it, they need it. Adding on, sleeping periods can happen anywhere. They can happen in bathrooms, random classrooms, the library, even the hallway. Any place is allowed for sleeping, so students could be positioned in very inconvenient spots.
While on the topic of bringing things, another new sighting would be no backpacks. Huge suitcases would carry whatever the student needs for a day. Some snacks, a phone stand for TikToks during the sleep period, a microphone for that karaoke room, whatever the child needs to bring to keep them happy. Suitcases would be too big to fit in lockers, so lockers would thus be considered obsolete. This leads to students choosing a homebase room, or any classroom in the building to keep their heavy luggage. You may be sitting down in Mandarin class with someone’s luggage stowed right under your desk. People would store their luggage outside of classrooms, too. Suddenly the cafeteria, hallways, and even bathrooms would be mistaken for baggage claim areas at airports.
A final adjustment is that there are no breaks or days off. School would always take place in twenty- four hour increments on every Monday, no exceptions. No days off regardless of the holiday. Additionally, because of how compact the school days are, if you need to be absent for a day, there is a complicated process: not only would the school need to excuse your absence, but the entire district would need to. It can tire out the district if they have to accept or decline many requests on missing school a lot, so the number of queries is limited to ten a week, no exceptions. If the district doesn’t have time to make a decision for your own absence, you need to go to school, and nothing would save you.
Overall, I don’t really like this policy. I don’t want to be sleeping in random places with nearly 1,500 students in the same building as me, nor would I like having my sleep interrupted every five minutes because someone’s favorite baseball team scored a winning run in the final inning. It would also be too tiring, and the extra homework outside of class would not be much fun for me. I’d much rather sleep at home on a school night than at the school itself. And this is what happens if we get a longer weekend. So let’s just endure the hard, long weeks and end with a three month break.
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