This weeks students created persuasive writing pieces about the promt 'Weekends should be 3 days long', here are a few for you to read:

By Sanadie Weerakonda

Weekends should be 3 days longer 

Have you ever wondered what a real holiday would be like? The exhaustion from a school day is hard enough, but wouldn’t school alone be a standard for students.  For others, a holiday would feel like a nightmare. With a load of homework and schoolwork rushing your way, how could you manage? Students should still have the right to feel educated and still have the privilege to complete school work. Everyone tends to become bored with nothing to do on the 2 days of the weekend. Plus, being at school would obviously keep you busy, rather than staying at home and doing nothing at all. So, should you save yourself from boredom or cure yourself from freedom?  

Surely, you would agree that school could use some time off, and that's why we have the weekend. But is extending them really the best option? As every student says, it is claimed that schools are boring, but many others think that this will be the exact opposite, and we all mean your education! Education is the main reason why we come to school, and having an extra day off will make this worse. This concept will not make the matter any better as it will casually make students feel lazier about their learning. Likewise, this will make you think about unnecessary content when going back to school.

Precisely, many students are obliged to not keep busy during the weekends, as going to school will actually get you somewhere. Students can suffer from boredom by being stuck inside doing nothing at all. Whereas at school, we will learn something while spending our time wisely and keeping ourselves busy. This would be true, as you will run out of the many things you could do at school whilst you are at home. For example, our time keeps us engaged in our learning and time being at school. 

Without a doubt, longer weekends are a bad influence on our day to day life. This will make us feel as if we don’t want to go to school any more as we are glued to our screens or doing something totally unnecessary. When going back to school you will be unfocused and distracted by many things as well as doing your work properly. This will waste your time as well as wasting other students' well being too. If we stick to our two day weekend then this will be an equal stability on breaks and school work. 

To sum it all up, a three day weekend will make you feel as if you forgot everything, whereas making sure we have a two day weekend only will stabilize your life as it is. Education, boredom and forgetting everything are only some of the reasons why we do not allow three day weekends, but making sure everything is productive then we can all forget about ever saying there was a three day weekend.

By Tayte Royakkers

There must be an extra day on a weekend

Doesn’t it feel like there is no time at all to do anything on a weekend? Well people may think that there is heaps of time, but I believe there must be another day on the weekend.

To start off people may not want an extra day off on weekends because they might be really good at school or it might be their job to work on weekdays. For example, you might want to keep doing school work because it’s something you enjoy, so therefore you don’t want an extra day of weekend and if it’s for your work you might lose money on payday due to you not working an extra day for a weekend.

Second of all, You might not want another day off because you’re guaranteed to see your friend or someone you know very well. This means that they may have had a day off or you just really want to talk to them again because you enjoy being with them. 

A reason for why we should have another day on the weekend is because on a weekend, we can all agree we feel very tired and because of this you might be able to do things you want. To give you an explanation, You may have just finished a long week of work or school and you are super exhausted and just want to sleep in the next day. So you do so, but you’ve realized you had slept in until 11:00am. You had just lost about 5 hours of your weekend then you could’ve if you had an extra day of the weekend.

Second of all on why we should have an extra day off is because you have very limited time. Especially if you have a pretty young child or sibling who might not get up for a long time and you might do cleaning on weekends, so it makes it very hard to do something like go out and have a nice day when you have very limited time.

Last of all, I believe we all deserve to see our families more. While if you're at work or school, you may not see them and miss them. You also get to have a lot of fun with them and you’d most likely be able to do more activities with them.

In conclusion, I strongly believe we all must want another day on the weekend to have lots of fun, you can sleep in more, spend lots of time with your family and just to feel much more relaxed, comfy and releafed. I do understand that other people still may not want another day off, but I truly believe that we should all have an extra day on the weekend.

By Roohani Kaur

Should the weekends be three days long

Having an extra day of the weekend is fun and all, but do you really know how much this one extra day of the weekend can do to you? Well, the answer is A LOT! A three day long weekend can cause you ( a student) to become lazy, it ruins your bedtime routine drastically and gives less days for actual school and learning. So, I strongly believe that there should not be a three day weekend.

To start it off, an extremely long weekend is absolutely NOT acceptable, not only is it 1 million days long, but it also makes the students that go to school get super lazy. It makes them think “ oh! There’s no school tomorrow, which means that I can go to sleep late tonight without any stress of waking up early for school.” But then when an actual school day comes they wake up late. Thus, being late for school.

Next up, don’t you love it when you finally get yourself back on track with your sleep schedule? Well, enjoy it as much as you can, because a three day long weekend is sure to ruin that sweet, sweet bedtime routine of your’s. Making plans with family and friends is a neutral way of bonding, but these so called ‘family get togethers’ can lead up to late into the night and sometimes even into the early hours of the morning. Yep! Not feeling too fond about that upcoming family get together now, are you?

Finally, everyone knows that it is a necessity to have plenty of facilities and plenty of time when it comes to school and studying, but how are you supposed to pull of such a amazing possibility when you only have four days of to study at school!!!Sure you have homework and all, but that isn’t an excuse to get an extra day of the weekend. Just think about it… An outstandingly perfect job, you're working in a multimillion dollar company, earning a 6 digit salary and all of this with your extreme intelligence that you got from going to school five days a week. See the outcomes, they're amazing!

To sum it up, I unconditionally believe that there should not be a three day long weekend no matter what. Utterly despicable, making you ( a student) lazy and it ruins your bedtime routine exceedingly, oh! Don’t even get me started about the amount of days that you get for school! You must agree that having a three day long weekend is crucial to you EVERY… WAY… IMAGINABLE.