Posted on 08/24/2005 11:21:48 AM PDT by hsmomx3
If Arizona used Daylight Savings Time they would have longer days and wouldn't need to do this :-)
So the problem is not the methods or the materials, but the amount of time they have with the kiddies, huh? And it just so happens that having the kiddies for all this extra time is going to cost more money? How convenient.
HOMESCHOOL!
LOL.
If 180 days of bad practice doesn't work, why would 210 days do any better?
When I went to school.......
Mass was at 6:00 am. School started at 7:30 am and got out at 3:00 with a half hr lunch. That's 7 hrs a day of no-fluff classes lasting 50 minutes. We got out for summer apx June 10 to day after Labor day. I don't know what they do today in AZ, but I bet its much less.
Lots of days off during the school year here in Colorado. Lots of "planning" days. Wonder if all of these extra days are necessary and productive?
Don't want to put down teachers. They work very hard. At least at my son's school. And they are usually working during the "planning" days.
Taxpayer-funded babysitting for parents whose only contribution to child rearing seems to be conception. And the final results at the end of 12 years are graduates who couldn't pass a 1950 eighth grade graduation test. Just keep piling federal money into the rotten system and the NEA is sure something will accidentally evolve that may look like an education.
If Janet wants it that settles it for me. I am against it.
It's like the old joke that a guy breaks up with a girl and the girl says, "YOU WON'T FIND ANYONE LIKE ME!" the guy says, "If I didn't want you, why would I want someone just like you? Has a guy ever broken up with a gal and as he walks aways, turns around and says, by the way, do you have a twin sister??!!!"
That should increase the cost per pupil to about $8K. So I guess I will be getting a $40K refund from the state for sending my five kids to private school. I will be waiting by the mail box.
More money for the teacher's union.
This moron liberal hack certainly is not in tune with reality -- if she was, she would be attacking the real problem which is teaching quality, school accountability and gross mis-management in school systems.
We KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEMS ARE --- and they are NOT the number of hours attended per day. What a bunch of crap -- another liberal trying to hide the real problem, get more tax revenues from the public and stand up crow about something that is totally USELESS.
Welcome to liberalism --
This has got to be one of the dumbest things I've heard of in a long, long time. Yea, right. Add six more weeks of school, longer hours....yes, that'll cure the problem with our publik edgeukashun sistem. Another fine example of stupid is as stupid does. sheesh!
"But the study says every dollar spent on preschool returns $7, both in terms of higher earning as well as avoided costs of crime and remedial education"
From the Department of numbers we just pilled out of our butts
Like Bill Bennett said about a longer school year:
"You don't make a cake any better by making more of it."
On a positive note, if a Democratic governor increases the length of the school year, more of today's generation of children might become Republicans.
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