Longer school year
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If you're in a room for 10 months out of the year listening to crap for six hours a day and it's not working, that's not an indication that "oh we're on the right track, we just need to do it for a couple weeks more and that would make things all better" it's an indication that YER DOIN' IT WRONG.
In other words, I am +1 for "actually teaching" instead of "keeping us in school longer."
In other words, I am +1 for "actually teaching" instead of "keeping us in school longer."
My head exploded.cleverlymadeup said:
Bu seriously, the quality of teaching and the students' receptiveness to said teaching is not going to be improved with longer school years. They should focus on better teachers who can educate with a compressed budget.
This. That's why I got my GED. Now I dont have to take that shit everyday.letsnoobtehpwns said:
This too. I didn't think any school would be that lenient. I wish I went to school in Italy.The infamous SCAMola said:
This. Quality over quantity. You can teach someone as long as you want, but if you're a horrible teacher they won't learn shit.cleverlymadeup said:
Making the school year longer probably would make a difference because this year my teachers struggled to get what we were learning done on time and went through the last topic quickly , which didn't help me at all, maybe extending the school year would take pressure off teachers so they can teach there subject better and can go over the topic to cover things that people have not understood.
But Quality can be increased with more time to teach.FinalHeart95 said:
lok in some schools it mey be axcepted and hell maby even help scores but in my school where the scores are and i quot from the sol 59 under 100 1 600 and 5 inbetwene 101 and 599 and the school has and large amount of smoking and freaking meth addicts runnin around so doing that at my school would cause rioting
I seriously doubt that extending the school year/day will improve test scores. If a student doesn't want to learn or hates school enough to shirk his or her homework, then how will making them go to school for a longer amount of time help them? Students that want to succeed will, and those that don't won't. If a student legitimately wants to learn but has trouble doing so, have a special program for them, but don't extend the day for everyone else.
School for me starts at 7:17 am and ends around 2:15 pm. On that we only get 10 weeks of summer but we don't get many days off during the school year only for big holidays. Even now the school board in my county is talking about getting rid of weekends. Glad I'm a senior this year with half days.
I think its fine. Where I live, atleast. Kids already stress out as it is. Extending the day, ok, but then you cannot extend the year. People will just perform worse, sleep in class more. It happened to my school when they extended school weeks into saturdays. So no, I don't think its a good idea at all.
While it might raise test scores(notice i say MIGHT)it would surely put stress on both students and teachers/faculty.
This completely I was homeschooled each year for 2 hours a day from sept to april with may-august off and I turned out okay. I'm a Jr. in college with a decent GPA so no adverse effects there. so more time=/= better education.cleverlymadeup said:
The word isn't might, the word you were looking for is does.DVSAurion said:
Studies have shown that after 3 weeks you start to forget information, meaning the first month of school is a reteaching of last years materials.
Some of the local schools do "year round" schooling, they take a month off in December instead of 2 weeks, and 4 weeks in summer instead of 10. They get the rest of their summer break spread out through the year and those schools seem to score better on tests than the rest of the district. Those schools are in the worst neighborhoods in town meaning that it isn't entirely funding that kills schools in poor neighborhoods, it's also teaching styles.
Parents in the US hate year round schools though, because they don't want to have to find people to watch their kids. Schools in the US really aren't much more than government funded daycare centers for kids over 6.
They still only attend 180 days a year, they just don't have a stupidly long break once a year.letsnoobtehpwns said:
I'm all for adding a day to the school week myself, but the teachers' unions are too powerful to allow it.
And for all you people freaking out over "better education" schools don't pay enough to teachers to get quality educators into schools. Maybe you should try passing a levy or two instead of complaining about taxes being too high and refuse to pay a few dollars a year to buy books written some time after world war two (my high school history book stopped in the middle of the Vietnam war when I attended in 1996.) Our best and brightest won't teach because you can make as much and in many cases more working in a mill without a degree and continuing educational requirements. Add in the fear that some day a kid might get mad at you for giving him an "F" on a test because he's a moron and go to the police saying you touched him in a dirty spot ruining your career (and it IS over if a kid says it, true or not.)
Most kids don't pay attention in school towards the end of the year because they're bored and the teachers for the most part don't care about anything other than getting standardized test scores up because that's the measure of teaching ability in the US now.
The entire educational system needs an overhaul in the US but parents and politicians won't pony up the cash. Hell, when cuts need to be made in the budgets, the FIRST thing cut is education when it should be the last.
And you need to stop worrying about stressing the kids out, they're gonna have to start working some day, and it's not like you get 10 weeks of vacation in any line of work I've ever heard of (teachers don't even really get it off, they have to go back to school and take some completely unrelated course because they have to have "well rounded" educations to keep their jobs.)
