Educators debate extending high school to five years because of increasing demands on students from employers and colleges to participate in extracurricular activies and community service in addition to having high grades. Some educators support extending high school to five years because they think students need more time to achieve all that is expected of them. Other educators do not support extending high school to five years because they think students would lose interest in school and attendance would drop in the fifth year. Both sides have strong points, but I agree with the educators who say that their shouldn't be an extension to high school adding a fifth year.
I agree that high school should not be made up of a fifth year because I agree with those people who say that students would loose interest. Some adolescence are already loosing interest in school and an increasing number of students are becoming dropouts. Being an high school student myself, it is hard and some students don't realize their full potential and think it is easier to give up than to succeed. I think adding an extra year to high school would increase the number of dropouts a year, create very serious attendance dilemmas, and cause student's interest in school to decline.