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2007-02-25 08:37:30 · 9 answers · asked by TheyCallMeMom 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
A longer school day will change nothing until we change the way we teach.
All the longer day does is make teachers more and more of a baby sitter same with longer year. They are our kids let’s stop having every one else raise them
Nearly twenty years ago we became obsessed with self esteem in schools and stopped teaching. Now when a little kid answers that one plus one equals three he/she is told that that is a good answer but that is a better one: Three is not a good answer it's the wrong answer. Really want to improve the school system?
1) Put teachers in dress clothes. Make them an example and an authority figure not one of the kids
2) Allow for competition among schools. Yes that means vouchers. If I could only choose one type of coffee how long do you think before it got shoddy tasting?
3) Fire incompetent teachers and administrators, the same way incompetent people in the "real world" get fired. Tenure belongs in colleges and universities not in elementary and high schools (tenure supports academic freedom not incompetence)
4) Build bridges between parents and teachers so they support each other
5) Go back to teaching ethics (not religion) some things are right and some wrong
6) Go back to teaching Civics
7) School uniforms
8) Stop having schools do the jobs of parents. Fat Kids are a parent problem not a school problem. A kid is a bully? Throw his a*s out of the school and be done with it.
9) Concentrate on reading, writing, mathematics, English, History and Science, as my son (who is in High school and a jock and scholar) says "Gym class is so the dumb kids get a good grade"
10) Stop funding schools with property taxes, fund them with state income tax and evenly divide the funds
2007-02-25 09:49:50 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas G 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
HELL NO! im already extremely tired at the end of a six hr and 45 minute school day (7:30 am -2:10 pm) i dont need a longer year either they PILE WORK,WORK AND MORE WORK on us thats more college work and not highschool work for 10 MONTHS! i need my 2 month long summer break dont take it away from me, i live in 1 of the hardest school districs in the country (fairfax county) and every college in the country looks to our county for new students every year. Our grading system is harder :and A is 94-100 B+ is 90-94 B is 84-90 C+- 80-84 C is 74-79 you get it. NO I DONT SUPPORT LONGER DAY OR YEAR
2007-02-25 17:15:18 · answer #2 · answered by novaicedogs9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of my children are in year round schooling. It works great!! They don't miss a beat on education and get longer breaks such as Spring break and Christmas break. Summer is 2 months instead of the normal three. There is plenty of vacation opportunities and the kids love it.
2007-02-25 16:51:05 · answer #3 · answered by juzme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Compare the Japanese school day/year to the US one. They spend a lot more time in school and come out of school far better prepared to succeed in a technical world. Most often a Japanese or almost any Asian kid comes to the US and gets kick up a grade or two higher than they were in their own country. It has to do with the length of the school year and the discipline in school. Both are badly needed in this country.
There are claims it will burn out the kids but that isn't happening in other countries where the demands are much higher. I doubt our children are all that fragile.
2007-02-25 16:48:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think a longer school day is going to help a thing, except to "burn" our kids out....
I have said for a long time, that they should consider lengthening the school year...not the day...
Keep them in school year round and then give them different breaks...
Making their day longer is only make them more tired...and we all know that tired brains don't take in material as well as fresh, rested ones..
2007-02-25 16:43:34 · answer #5 · answered by Termite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No!!! I am a high school teacher, BTW. A longer day won't change anything, nor will a longer year. What needs to change are the parents, because until the parents start to give a damn about their kid's education and make the kids give a damn, nothing will change.
2007-02-25 16:45:55 · answer #6 · answered by lachicadecafe 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If i had kids.. I would support anything that kept the lil brats outta the house longer
2007-02-25 17:59:14 · answer #7 · answered by darchangel_3 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no, i go to school from 8 to 8, monday to saturday which is really good, but alot of time is wasted via breaks and extracarricular activities. although school holidays are very long.
2007-02-25 16:44:14 · answer #8 · answered by tomjoebl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, both, anything to keep the brats out of the house a while longer.
2007-02-25 21:13:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋