There are 990 hours in a school quarter. That’s 41 days and 6 hours a quarter. Our breaks are one week for fall, two weeks for winter, one week for spring, and two months for summer.  We should double our breaks because students need more time to deal with the physical, mental, and social implications school causes.

Teachers might disagree because it would mean there’s less time to teach what they have to teach. They could shorten what they teach and make it simpler.

Longer school breaks help students be more relaxed and focused at school. If the breaks stay the way they are right now, students will be overwhelmed with school and all the work it gives.

This also benefits the teachers. Teachers can get more family time or can have more free time to do whatever they want on the break instead of stressing out about grades. Then when they come to school they are more excited to teach then they already are. They will have to adjust their teachings to get all their lessons done, but it could help if they make it simpler. Students have a limited amount of power in school, which is a reason students cut class. Less school days would possibly make students cut class less because they don’t have as much school days as they do now. I’m not saying that it’s a guarantee that they would stop cutting class, but it would decrease the chances. Less school would also help students get better grades. It would increase the students production in working because of their long breaks they have. The breaks are not long enough. Longer school breaks has positives and negatives, but I think it would really benefit the students and teachers.