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A longer school day and school on Saturday??? Anyone hear about this?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 309944" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>The year-round schools here in metro Atlanta are few and far between but the ones that exist have the same number of school days but they are structured differently. They have 9 weeks on/3 weeks off and 6 weeks off for summer. While it sounds good to me to have frequent breaks, the research on the schools that have tried this do not show any increase in academic achievement.</p><p></p><p>As far as a longer school year (even a modest 10 day a year increase) would be very costly for the states when you factor in the increased teacher salaries (and no, I would not work 10 extra days for free), increased bus driver salaries, increased cafeteria and custodial staff salaries, and the increased cost of gasoline and utilities for the school buildings. You would be talking millions of dollars.</p><p></p><p>Here in Georgia, all school workers have been furloughed 3 days so far this year because of a shortage of funds in the state budget. They are talking more furlough days after the 1st of the year. I just can't see longer school days or a longer school year happening in the foreseeable future.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 309944, member: 1967"] The year-round schools here in metro Atlanta are few and far between but the ones that exist have the same number of school days but they are structured differently. They have 9 weeks on/3 weeks off and 6 weeks off for summer. While it sounds good to me to have frequent breaks, the research on the schools that have tried this do not show any increase in academic achievement. As far as a longer school year (even a modest 10 day a year increase) would be very costly for the states when you factor in the increased teacher salaries (and no, I would not work 10 extra days for free), increased bus driver salaries, increased cafeteria and custodial staff salaries, and the increased cost of gasoline and utilities for the school buildings. You would be talking millions of dollars. Here in Georgia, all school workers have been furloughed 3 days so far this year because of a shortage of funds in the state budget. They are talking more furlough days after the 1st of the year. I just can't see longer school days or a longer school year happening in the foreseeable future. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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