How about 200 8 hour days?
2007-11-01 05:17:35 · 20 answers · asked by Spartacus 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I believe the school day should be longer. With the necessary classes that must be taken for students to pursue a college bound program, the day is just too short. Longer class period will also allow teachers to do more teaching and less administrative tasks.
I've always had a whacky notion that individual subjects should be taught during an entire school day. Imagine how much more information they could receive.
Perhaps the school year is too short, but I believe kids deserve a summer off. Childhood is a very short period of time. I would rather see a five year High School.
2007-11-01 05:24:01 · answer #1 · answered by Zardoz 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We should only have 8 years of government sponsored education . After that parents and corporations can handle further instruction . At 14 most kids should be working and not in schools .
Apprentice programs should be the wave of the future . Companies should educate workers . Young people can provide much of the labor needed under supervision of experienced workers .
Seriously its all about routine and not so much about being educated .
How hard is it to manage a taco bell .
I think most 16 year olds could handle it .
The problem is that many jobs do not pay enough and those that do are in short supply and given to white christian males .
This nation has some serious issues if you ask me .
Once people have learned to read and write and do math its only the idiots that have complicated the system with regulatory paper work that is slowing us down .
We should have no part time employment and a job should pay enough to meet a persons bills .
Enough to cover rent and payments of what the average cost is to handle accidents and disasters and medical treatments over a life time . This cost should be divided out over the average life expectancy and divided into annual payments . If you are predicted to need 30,000 in medical treatment then divide that out over a life time . Some will need more and some less . If you are predicted to have one accident with damages of 25,000 then divide that out .
We have the statistics to do this and we should adopt this principle .
A maid with three kids should be paid accordingly to meet the expenses and a maid with no kids like wise .
The system is not geared to the people but to profits . Taking care of the people should be the first priority . Not the last .
2007-11-01 05:37:04 · answer #2 · answered by TroubleMaker 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
8 hour days?
It's inhuman to expect anyone, let alone seven year olds, to put in 8 hour days of hard intellectual work.
There's only so much a human being can take in per day.
Plus, they are learning besides the school learning.
They need to physically move around -- or do you want them to be overweight weaklings who can walk a block or pick up 10 pounds? Not to mention being completely socially inept and clueless, and going through their entire childhoods completely friendless.
Children are not short adults.
Although I hate to say it, we shouldn't have the summer vacation thing, though they should have shorter vacations at intervals during the year.
But those who are saying 8 hours, plus homework are unrealistic and inhuman.
The solution to lack of education isn't time, it's using that time intelligently.
If we focused on teaching the basic concepts in each field, and students practiced using them to understand various aspects of their world, they would come out much better educated than they do.
But trying to cram gazzillions of useless and trivial bits into their heads is NOT a solution.
They aren't machines, they aren't slaves, they are children.
2007-11-01 08:34:17 · answer #3 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they should go 8 hours and 180 days. That allows them summer to work, which I believe is also a part of their education. I also believe that the school day should start at 9:00 am because of endorphins older children are not getting the rest they need to perform at their peak. It also means buses would be traveling in less darkness making it safer for the children.
2007-11-01 05:23:44 · answer #4 · answered by libsticker 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Increasing time would require increasing teacher pay.
Increasing days would require increasing transportation costs.
Increasing hours would increase heating/maintenance costs.
I'm fine with increasing these. (I'm already teaching during the summers anyways). However, I don't know if there's the politicial will to increase taxes, cut spending in other places, or borrow more money to pay for this.
As a side note to the summer vacation comments. Summer vacation dates back to our days as an agrarian society, and the kids were needed to help with crops and animals. Obviously this is not the case anymore, but a lot of places employ kids through the summer.
2007-11-01 05:22:37 · answer #5 · answered by Pythagoras 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, as an adult with a school age child, & childcare being out of control, & I don't get 3 months off in the summer, so why should they?? I think 2 weeks in the summer, a week or more around Christmas/Hannuka, & a few more sread around larger holidays. But then, my son *really* disagrees with me!
Some places are already doing more for math & science. My son is doing algebra in 8th grade & doing well, & will take geometry in 9th grade. But, we live in a blue state!
2007-11-01 05:22:23 · answer #6 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Adding hours or days is pointless unless we reform the entire system. Theoretically we have enough hours and days it is the fact that we do nothing but teach children how to past a stupid standardize test that marks the failure of the system. Reform will not come from the addition of time, but the subtraction of lunacy
2007-11-01 05:30:08 · answer #7 · answered by Thomas G 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think 6 hours for elementary school, 7 for middle, and 8 for high school. I think they should go year round, but with a break every couple of weeks (after all, they're still kids).
2007-11-01 05:28:07 · answer #8 · answered by Lisa M 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Keep them in school year round with 1 to 10 day breaks for major holidays and maybe 2 weeks in the summer.
Chinese kids spend 10 hours a day at school and go year round. They are beating us at grades and smart kids.
2007-11-01 05:24:29 · answer #9 · answered by maxmom 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well, now that there are people wanting to put kids in pre-kindergarten to get them ready for kindergarten which gets them ready for the 1st grade...I'd have to say let's go full 8 hour days all year around starting at the age of 2.
2007-11-01 05:27:40 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋