Thanksgiving break has been known for always being one week but why is this? Shouldn’t students get more time to rest before they must go back to school? Mental health is incredibly important for students, especially high schoolers because they need their rest.
Students need to be able to recharge during this break, it is their time to ease up after being in school for so long. With just having a week off, students most likely won’t be fully rested before going back to school.
Making sure that a student’s mental health is where it needs to be is fundamental because it determines student’s behavior, friendships, and engagement in school. High school is undeniably stressful and it can be really overwhelming at times, so a longer Thanksgiving break will motivate students after going to school for months straight. Having a two-week break will benefit students’ ability to concentrate better before and after the break.
Right before the break students will do better in school because they can’t wait to get two weeks off from stressful school work and be able to spend more time with their families. Then, after the break students will be fully charged and ready to complete the end of the year.
Coming back from Thanksgiving break, students will only have to go to school for about two more weeks then they will be on winter break for two weeks. Only going to school for two more weeks and then going on another break will benefit students because it is a good way to end off the year.
It will motivate students to want to go to school for those two weeks and attendance rates could rise. Just going to school for two weeks will motivate students to do better in school because they are looking forward to having another two weeks off of school.
Not only will students be fully charged and rested for school, they will also be able to bond with their family and friends for a longer amount of time, improving students’ mindsets. Homework is constantly being handed out at high school left and right. On top of that, students have sports and other extracurricular activities to go to after school.
Without having any homework for two weeks, students will have more time on their hands. This will open opportunities to spend their free time with their family members and make more cherishable memories with them.
Some people may say that having two weeks off for Thanksgiving break is too much because they say that students don’t need to get that much time off for Thanksgiving, and they need to be back in school.
They think that only winter break should have two weeks off and not Thanksgiving break because it is too much time that is being taken off by students. They need to stay in school so they are able to keep learning, and having only a week off is unacceptable.
It is imperative that Thanksgiving break is changed to two weeks as soon as possible because the extra week off gives students more time to rest and recharge for the remainder of the year and it allows them to spend more time bonding with their families and make more memories.