JCEA "First in Quality Education"
The less time victims spend in the indoctrination centers, the better.
Aside from the free babysitting, why anyone who went to school would want more of it is a mystery to me.
45%-75% of high school students don’t belong in school.
Keeping them longer, while continuing to tolerate their resistance to being there, is a serious error.
There is a certain percentage of students who underachieve in school. Spending more money and extending the schoolyear won’t change this.
Summer off is the only reason my wife still teaches.
Actually this is an excellent idea.
Better still revamp the schools into a sort of dormitory-classroom setting and keep the students at school 24 hours per day and 52 weeks each year. Don’t graduate anyone and the unemployment problem will be solved. Family budgets will shrink as the students will be fed all meals at the school.
No Christmas vacation because God is not allowed in schools but crazed maniacs and overzealous politically correct administrators are. No more parent teacher’s conferences and no more report cards and notes floating home.
If a member of our Congress should read this I predict a bill will be introduced by someone like Maxine Waters (that paragon of patriotism) who will see the true value of such a proposal.
The students don't pay attention now, with shorter school days. Their nervous systems never developed the capacity for sitting for long periods of time and paying attention. They need constant entertainment, in the form of listening to music with ipods or playing around with their cell phones. I don't allow anyone to listen to ipods or use their cellphones, but plenty of teachers have capitulated, because every other word out of their mouth has been, "Please put that cellphone away" or "Lose the ipod" instead of teaching. How on earth can you learn anything of the material at hand when only part of your attention is being used to listen to a lesson and take notes? Too bad they don't offer courses in ipod-ology or cell phone usage. They'd ace those, for sure.
After ALL this expenditure, the college readiness scores for these students is appalling, and don't you know, it's the TEACHER'S fault every time. You can lead a horse to water, as they say...
Typical government thinking.... The system has given failures upon failures. Let’s have more of it.
“Will longer school year help or hurt US students?”
Just a ploy to get more teachers hired, to increase their pay and increase the brainwashing of the children.
Many school districts do not have air conditioned buses. In Georgia, when school starts back in first week of August (hottest time of the year), kids are stuffed three in a seat in a metal box that wouldn’t be approved for pit bulls. But it’s hunky dory for our kids.
FIFY
Schools today must get free of government control, and must get out from under the thumb of teacher unions... and even then, the changes will be small. The primary path to significant gains in education today would come from a changing of urban culture, within both parents and children, and even some teachers. As long as education is disdained; authority is undermined, distrusted, and disrespected; and entertainment trumps learning, there's nothing that can be done to help the majority of American students... other than getting them out of public schools.
And changing urban culture is NOT going to be allowed or encouraged by the Left. They have many many billions of dollars on the line there, between Hollywood, music, video games, etc.