Posted on 05/12/2023 6:57:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A four-day school week is being proposed. This is probably one of the worst ideas ever (other than allowing the mutilation of children).
American children are not reading at grade level, are not proficient at math at grade level, and are not being taught basics like civics and how to write using cursive. Soon no one will be able to read the original founding documents — the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, etc. Is this where we want our country to be? Who will be the creators, the inventors, the authors and great American thinkers we have had?
When I was a child (I just turned 78), other than kindergarten, we had a pretty full day of school, plus homework. Somehow I still found time for other activities — dance lessons, piano lessons, acrobatics, voice lessons, and lots of involvement in my church. And then there was reading. Lots and lots of reading. I had an "aunt" who was a kindergarten teacher and gave me age-appropriate books every year for Christmas.
In those days, the TV was controlled by the father or mother of the house. There were no remotes or devices to play on. If your parents said the TV stayed off, it stayed off. We spent time together as a family, eating meals together, playing board or card games together — and reading, usually on our own.
We also talked to one another — something else that is fading from our society. We didn't just talk about our day's events; we discussed national and international issues. Notice I said "discussed." Often there were disagreements, but never raised voices or name-calling. You could actually have a civil discussion with someone whose political values didn't align with yours.
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The whole public school system needs to be sent back to each state and the Dept of Education shut down. Forget the 4 day week.
Exactly.
Tbat would give Teenz even more idle time to use for constructive endeavors
I just turned in an historical project wherein I had transcribed several wills of the time (1850). I transcribed them using a script font....since our local schools doesn't teach it anymore. Maybe I can change some minds.
This would may be a back door means to force a 4-day work week. I know teachers’ unions will be on board, but I expect that all public-sector unions would join in supporting this idea.
No, 6 Days is better.................
Since we are no longer all farmers...how about 12 months out of the year.
Some countries do that, and one European country has a ‘Sabbatical Year’ in HS.........................
yes as long as the day off is not wednesday. give them a 3 day weekend
Four day school week means 20 percent less chance for violence with education way down on the hierarchy of more important things to accomplish, such as equity, inclusion, indoctrination, gender confusion, learning about the teacher’s sex life, etc.
Teachers are incapable of imparting anything but their leftist agenda in five days so why not limit exposure to their crap by a full 20%?
Say, they may be onto something here!
they need that extra day because it reminds them of their covid pj's and sipping coffee days...
Well, that would be one less day per week that a teacher wouldn’t be targeted and shot by one of her six year olds and for former students to go shoot up their school and former classmates. Probably a good idea in the commie RATS new Dung Beetle Party country. Anybody hear when the Millies and Zeros plan on renaming America because it was a slave state named after a white supremacist?
FTA: Soon no one will be able to read the original founding documents....
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All part if the plan.
5 days at school, Saturday for home maintenance and vigorous exercise and Sunday for 4 hours of religious instruction and socializing in a chaperoned setting
Three months - 5 days a week followed by one month off; repeat
Young Folks could be “schooled” 6 days, 12 months per year.
Why not?
Not just “book” learning either - physical experiential learning. And not just in Goobermint “Schools”.
Civics, marksmanship, basic finance, basics of how food is produced, where energy comes from, home economics, basic hand tools, learn to swim, to drive, to sing, to play an instrument . . .
What we used to learn from family, church and school-
Youth - so much to learn, and the time to do it-
Simple question: Why aren’t schools in some form, all year long? Why do teachers only work 9 months a year instead of 12 months like the rest of the workforce? I understand the student’s need for a break from classes, that’s a given. But why a 3-month break? It makes no sense. Also, if colleges exist to prepare students for a job/profession in the real world why do they not have classes that reflect the real-world environment and work conditions? It’s all ridiculous union bullcrap.
The answer is a solid, loud NO!
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