Why school should be working 5 days a week?

Answer 1

It is a working week for everyone. It gets students used to that for later life. It is the working week for teachers too. If you made it less days a week for students, they would still have to do the same amount of days in the year, so they would have to come to school during more weeks to make up for it, and so their holidays would be shorter. For example if you had to do 100 days at 5 days a week, that is 20 different weeks to attend during, but 100 days in 4 day weeks would mean having to be there in 25 different weeks. Less days would mean taking more weeks to complete their education, so they would be older when you left school. People would prefer longer holidays and to finish all their education when they were younger. So on balance, a 5 day week has more advantages than it appears. Students need some time to relax, so while a 6 or 7 day week would shorten things even further, that would not be good, so 5 days is about right.