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Will making the school day longer benefit society? Karno Schmulze claims that teenagers have it too easy because of the length of their school day and year. She writes that teenagers are more interested in gossip and fashion than in bettering the world, and argues that a longer, more challenging school day will better them as people. Isn’t she stereotyping a teenager? Did she not just claim that ALL teenagers are more interested with gossip than with schooling? Schmulze is wrong, she has created her own definition of teenagers in this society that isn’t accurate. A teenager is much more than just a robot concerned with its own problems. A teenager is not selfish. A teenager will help others, but sometimes they have responsibilities such as school. How can Schmulze expect teenagers to better the world and practice selflessness if they’re cooped up in a class room for six to nine hours a day? The answer, she can’t. Making the school day longer would only worsen teenagers. They’d become more …show more content…

She wants to change the world. Stop the hate in schools and in the streets, make people understand that words kill, people kill people. Make others see what happened to her best friend before she took her own life. She has this great idea that she knows she can do, so what’s stopping her? She sits down to take action but gets sidetracked by the pile of homework she has to complete. Forty math problems, two essays, a Spanish worksheet, a science lab...for one six hour day. Her planning takes a backseat, she’s preoccupied by her “responsibilities.” She finishes her job and begins her planning for changing the world, but she’s interrupted. Her parents waltz in plopping college applications on her desk. Fill these out, they say. Its for your future, your mom concludes. You sit there like a robot filling out those applications, watching your dreams at changing the world drift farther and farther

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