LANGUAGE TRAINING CENTRE

UNIVERSITASMUHAMMADIYAHYOGYAKARTA
UJIAN TENGAH SEMESTER
GENAP 2018/2019

ESSAY
WRITING

Name : TEA OLIVIA M. P. Date of Test : 4 APRIL 2019

Student Number : 20170310030 Lecturer : MISS PITA
Faculty : FKIK MARYA
Department : MEDICAL STUDENT Signature :

Full Day School: Why I Strongly Disagree?

Full day school is a school all day or teaching and learning process that is applied
from morning to evening, starting at 06.45-16.00 WIB, with the duration of rest every two
hours. Thus, the school can manage the lesson schedule freely, adjusted to the weight of the
subjects and coupled with the deepening of the material. The thing that is prioritized in full
day school is setting schedule subjects and deepening. The President of Indonesia on
Thursday (10/8), at the Merdeka Palace said that five-day school policy or Full Day
School is not compulsory. As we know that this new education system will force the
students to stay at school for long time, so they have difficulty to do other activities outside
the class. Although Mr. Jokowi delay this regulation for all schools, it doesn’t mean that
the schools which have already implemented can follow this system well. Now, this new
regulation is still hot topic because some people disagree and they can not affirm why this
education system should be implemented. I am as one of them who disagree with this
regulation will explain several opinion about this.

First of all, this education system will force many students to study hard almost all
day long. The student should study in the class start from 7.00 am untul 4.00 pm. Can you
imagine it? Even though they have two times for break, I believe that their brain is so tired
and under pressure. Based on a research about possibility to maintain concentration said
that human’s brain can focus on something just for 45 minutes. Focus in this case means
the concentration for thinking hardly and solving some problems. It means that students’
concentration will decrease after 45 minutes. Now, 8 school hours means 480 minutes to
focus, think hard, and solve some exercises in the class. It is extremely not effective. The
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five-day teaching and learning rules must of course be followed by reforming the school
curriculum. While changing the old curriculum that has been systematically implemented
in schools is certainly not an easy thing. Because it must ensure that students can run a new
curriculum or not, the technology is sufficient or not, and of course the teachers also have
their own trials. If the curriculum has to be changed without seeing all aspects, it will cause
a failure in learning.

Secondly, the students need quality time for themselves. The world is too wide
outside the classroom therefore, they will get a lot of experiences in their real life. Learning
process is not always inside the classroom, so they should improve their ability outside of
the class, for they need to explore and discover all kinds of knowledge. The students also
need family time to guide them how to learn about social environment because a lot of
experiences will be their real teacher for their real life. So, giving them quality time outside
the class is really needed.

With a full day school being able to improve quality and better quality so that a new
and more qualified curriculum is realized, students have plenty of time to explore their
talents and abilities through practical lessons, students' understanding of subject matter will
be more in-depth, thereby reducing the risk of students not going up class or lagging in
understanding material. But in reality, changing the old curriculum into the new curriculum
is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand. Must be tested before students can follow or
not, their knowledge is acceptable or not, the technology is sufficient or not, and the
teacher is capable or not. If you don't think about it all, it will not produce a good quality
new curriculum. All must go through a long stage.

In conclusion, some assumptions above are the causes why I totally disagree with
Full Day School. I do hope the Ministry of Education in Indonesia not only think about the
quantity of learning but also increase the quality in order to make the new generations
better than before.

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 Scoring*: Total score: Plagiarism:
Introductory paragraph 5 4 3 2
Body paragraphs 5 4 3 2
Concluding paragraph 5 4 3 2
Organization 5 4 3 2
Style 5 4 3 2
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