Do you agree if 2 years was added to school?.. 7th grade and 5th year...

it has been implemented now, and I am not sure if there's a positive impact yet .

I don't know that adding time to the number of years required to graduate would accomplish anything except to keep kids locked up for two more years. I don't know what it is like where you are from, but I know in most American schools, the teachers teach to the test. This causes students to not learn the material that is needed to succeed in life. What they really need to do is stop worrying so much about testing students and start teaching them again. There should be more practical work done in schools and less worksheets and exercises that have no use in real life. The classes I did best in had exercises that were like doing the real thing. In my high school accounting classes, I had to go through all aspects of accounting for a business. If I just read about it and didn't do it, I might know the theory, but I wouldn't be able to do it. There should be more of that type of education, and less of what goes on now. You could probably cover everything needed in less than the twelve years required by most states.

I agree with you. Quality over quantity... That is the way to go with our education system. What would the additional 2 years of schooling do if you still don't have the facilities or the rooms to do it with? Providing them with all the supplies they need, hiring dedicated teachers armed with the right knowledge and experience(I knew some back then that didn't know what were they teaching), and a campus conducive for studying, these are what our school children need for them to really learn something and not additional school years...

Dear Stanley777, I strongly agree with your opinion. Smart size rather than length of study. More attention to quality teaching and learning process and better education facilities, would be far better results than the additional length of study. Although the duration of study plus, if the quality and facilities are not improve, I think the result will not be better, could even be worse.

If anything, schooling in all countries should be shorter. Have a deep think about how unproductive your schooling lives were; learning things that really had no benefit or relation to whatever you're doing today. I once heard it takes 2 years of constantly working at something to master it. Now why don't we shorten the schooling period instead and turn kids into assets of society, rather than spend countless years learning crap.

Well having more knowlegde is never bad. After a few years of adjusting it would probably feel the same as it was before.

As in Brazil, which had its 11-year curriculum changed to a 12-year some years ago and didn't have an increase in the quality of education, I disagree time means better education, in fact, I'm for the idea of home schooling, as most schools don't have a good environment nowadays (at least in Brazil). I agree with you, but I think the right way to go is to invest in the teachers: they're what really matter, not books or facilities, as new technologies make information easy to obtain, the necessity nowadays is to teach kids how to deal with information, scientific thought etc., besides loads of information.

I think this would be applicable only for public which need huge rehabilitation of quality of teaching. From their teacher should be filtered the quality one, because it will affect to the students... In private depends on the discretion of the school. see you around

I don't agree to this because the more years of schooling will be the more out of school individuals. Poor family can't almost afford spending their children to school in 6 years elementary and 4 years secondary, how much more if another years of schooling will be added..

Yes. I would definitely agree. Over the past 2 years in High school, I have experienced nothing but programs. To be honest, I'm sure any other worried student will feel the same. If you'd want to achieve a good education, you'd either have to enroll yourself to a prestigious university or hire your own tutor. As for me, even if all the books, classrooms and all those other facilities would be renovated, 2 years were still wasted and 2 years will always be time. And time is something I can never give up and waste.