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A longer school day and school on Saturday??? Anyone hear about this?
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 310066" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: royalblue">I would be happy with a longer school year as opposed to a longer school day. Our high schoolers here are standing at their bus stops as early as 6:15 in some areas, as we're rural in some areas and share one HS. Longer days would not be suitable really, and especially in the winter months when it gets dark around 4:30 pm - people with kids involved in after school sports have always fought the longer school day. Also, I believe family time around the dinner table is more important than test scores and longer days mean tired kids and rushed dinner hours due to other committments. It's already a strain on so many families.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: royalblue">That said, a longer school year would be ideal in my humble opinion. It hasn't been mentioned yet, but my problem with our shorter (180 days) school year and long summer break is that our district continues to introduce new programs without eliminating old ones. Thus, our teachers are squeezing more and more into the school day which means that nothing is being covered extensively or long enough for the kids to really comprehend the material. Then the students are sent home with loads of HW on material they really do not fully understand. I think a majority of the districts out there need to turn the basic curriculum upside down, give it a nice cleaning out, remove all the crud and then figure out a way to teach everything the students need to learn by stretching it over a longer school year...WITHOUT HOMEWORK.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: royalblue">I am strongly in favor of eliminating homework. Not long term projects, just the day to day 'busy-work' type of homework. The stuff they don't have enough time to fully cover in school. Without HW, I think difficult child would have gotten much better grades. Incorporating weekly quizzes to keep the teacher in the know as to how much her students are absorbing would more beneficial than giving them homework they can just copy out of their textbooks and that teachers barely even look at makes more sense to me. Most teachers at the HS level are just checking to see that the HW was completed and aren't even reviewing it!</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: royalblue">Of course, all of this is a moot point for me personally, as I have no school aged children anymore...but one day I will have little grandchildren and would love to see some changes implemented now.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 310066, member: 2211"] [SIZE=4][COLOR=royalblue]I would be happy with a longer school year as opposed to a longer school day. Our high schoolers here are standing at their bus stops as early as 6:15 in some areas, as we're rural in some areas and share one HS. Longer days would not be suitable really, and especially in the winter months when it gets dark around 4:30 pm - people with kids involved in after school sports have always fought the longer school day. Also, I believe family time around the dinner table is more important than test scores and longer days mean tired kids and rushed dinner hours due to other committments. It's already a strain on so many families.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=royalblue][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=royalblue]That said, a longer school year would be ideal in my humble opinion. It hasn't been mentioned yet, but my problem with our shorter (180 days) school year and long summer break is that our district continues to introduce new programs without eliminating old ones. Thus, our teachers are squeezing more and more into the school day which means that nothing is being covered extensively or long enough for the kids to really comprehend the material. Then the students are sent home with loads of HW on material they really do not fully understand. I think a majority of the districts out there need to turn the basic curriculum upside down, give it a nice cleaning out, remove all the crud and then figure out a way to teach everything the students need to learn by stretching it over a longer school year...WITHOUT HOMEWORK.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=royalblue][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=royalblue]I am strongly in favor of eliminating homework. Not long term projects, just the day to day 'busy-work' type of homework. The stuff they don't have enough time to fully cover in school. Without HW, I think difficult child would have gotten much better grades. Incorporating weekly quizzes to keep the teacher in the know as to how much her students are absorbing would more beneficial than giving them homework they can just copy out of their textbooks and that teachers barely even look at makes more sense to me. Most teachers at the HS level are just checking to see that the HW was completed and aren't even reviewing it![/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=royalblue][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=royalblue]Of course, all of this is a moot point for me personally, as I have no school aged children anymore...but one day I will have little grandchildren and would love to see some changes implemented now.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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