For children, time spent in school in most cases should be limited to 2 hours a day

Children need to develop relationships and friendships, and too much school harms their social skills and ability to form relationships, harming their communication skills.

Too much school time and pressure in schools causes high suicide rates and obesity.

Children do most of their learning at home. School serves to direct them. With use of AI, children can more effectively learn at home.

Students can focus better in shorter time. Less time is wasted on unnecessary activities. Teachers can deliver key content more efficiently. It encourages independent learning... Helps students develop real-world social skills.

It forces schools to prioritize essential subjects over quantity of meaningless

More time for outdoor play and physical activity.

It encourages students to be interested in learning, as reducing school hours means reducing time spent on meaningless learning, and more time to learn things children are interested in, preventing boredom from learning.

Improves overall happiness and life satisfaction

Helps students focus on their passions

It makes children more willing to go to school, and makes school easier to deal with for children, reducing running from classes.

Promotes hands-on learning through personal projects. Encourages critical thinking and problem-solving, encourages learning on their own. Supports personal expression... Encourages practical application of knowledge. Allows for better learning outside the classroom. Helps students learn from real-life experiences instead of theory.

Schools can focus on quality over quantity. Teachers can provide more one-on-one attention. Reduces overcrowded classrooms. Allows teachers to focus on student understanding rather than speed. Reduces unnecessary testing. Less bureaucracy and administrative work for teachers. Encourages a more flexible education system. Reduces the need for excessive homework.

more school hours usually means more time spent around peers

Long school hours does not directly cause high suicide or obesity rates

it would be appreciated if you explained how AI can help children learn at home more effectively.

What do you mean by 'unnecessary activities'?

that leaves at most 20 minutes for the teacher to do their job

they will end up working much less

The children are generally going to want to play in their free time, not learn more

that leaves further education up to the parents

Plus PE is mandatory in the majority of schools

It's very possible that students will play outside more, but it's not a guarantee

Also boredom is not a bad thing

weakened education might stop children from discovering their passions

Children wanting less school doesn't provide a worthy reason for making less school

No evidence was provided for any of these claims

Explain how less time to teach makes it easier for teachers to focus on students' individual understanding.

Explain how less school hours reduces crowded classrooms.

What do you mean by 'unnecessary testing'?

Explain how it reduces homework.

I. Improves health and desire for knowledge

Homeschooled children are less likely to experience harm and bullying, and more likely to achieve better education results, proving that school environment isnt the best system at teaching, or safest. Thus, reducing such system in favor of increased use of better ones like studying at home using AI is beneficial.

II. It is what children want

This point was not challenged. What people want is most important to them. We cant just impose what we want on others, because they have wants and choices too and their wants and choices matter like ours. Giving children choices and respecting their wants was proved to improve their decision-making abilities and improve their reasoning abilities, and this should be applied in case of education too, as education of a child anyway depends a lot on child's choice, and improving child's ability to choose results in better choices in their own education.

III. Reduces violence in schools significantly

This point was not challenged. Children who are bullies in school have much less time to bully other children when school hours are much shorter, and shorter school time also allows better supervision. In school, children have no choice but to spend time with their bullies as they cant go anywhere else. This time should be reduced. With improved mental health of children and less stress, there will also be less bullies, and children will be able to better deal with bullying problems.

more school hours usually means more time spent around peers

Being near peers =/= talking to peers. Children talk with each other freely in their free time, not during class.

Long school hours does not directly cause high suicide or obesity rates

I already linked a study about it. High pressure and too much work is a common reason to develop mental illnesses and suicidal thoughts, especially if it combines with other problems.

What do you mean by 'unnecessary activities'?

Most knowledge and activities learned in school are unnecessary for most children. The amount of knowledge children are expected to learn in school equals to over 1 million statements. That needs to be reduced significantly, because it is impossible to learn.

that leaves at most 20 minutes for the teacher to do their job

Most teachers teach multiple classes. 20 minutes is enough to give directions, facts and topics which can be studied at home.

they will end up working much less

They wont work  less, but less teachers will teach more classes. It also enables the option that size of class becomes smaller to enable much better teaching.

We are not debating whether 'homeschool is better than public school

It is actually generally agreed that adults do have the right to impose certain things

it is unlikely to have much of an impact on any verbal abuse

Less school hours still doesn't necessarily mean more socializing.

Also it's obviously not 'impossible' since several students graduate with straight A's every year.

The teachers are still working 2 hours maximum in comparison to an 8 hour shift

I. Improves health and desire for knowledge

The notion that longer hours in school directly correlate with improved academic performance is misguided. It ignores the complex, individualized factors that influence learning outcomes. What it does perpetuate, however, is an unhealthy emphasis on productivity and compliance over genuine understanding and personal growth. It's a recipe for burnout, resentment, and the stifling of curiosity. As studies show, homeschooling provides much better results than all schools on average.

My position in this debate isnt "reduce learning time to 2 hours", but do more learning in home environment and reduce school time to 2 hours. Japan and South Korea have long school hours of 8 hours per day, but plenty of suicides, mental health issues and relationship forming issues due to severe pressure on children. We cant expect 10 year olds to work as long as adults. We cant sacrifice their health, experiences and relationships to achieve slightly better grades. Finland has lowest number of school hours per day, yet one of countries which have best grades in the world. Reducing school hours greatly benefits health while also often benefiting grades as well, while giving children more choices and freedom to improve their decision making abilities.

II. It is what children want

What exactly is a response to this point? That children are property and that their childhood, choices, dreams and wishes dont matter in adult world?

Body ownership and choices about own life is not only basic human right, but a condition for a debate. Debating is the only possible way to determine who is right. Any reduction in debate reduces the ability to determine who is right. Debate depends upon body ownership and property ownership not being reduced. Reducing body ownership cannot be justified in a debate because it reduces debates and reduces its own ability to prove itself right.

III. Reduces violence in schools significantly

It will never be worthy to cause child pain, violence and humiliation just for the sake of grades, and such society in long term will only pile up mental health issues and problems.