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Thoughts on year round school?
Posted on 8/2/21 at 9:42 am
Posted on 8/2/21 at 9:42 am
Are you for it or against it?
I remember in school not going back till the end of August. Every year though it seemed like we went back a little earlier, till by the time I finished we were going back in the second week of August
Now kids are going back in July, but they get more breaks throughout the rest of the year.
You like the idea or no? If I were still a kid I'd prefer the long summer personally
I remember in school not going back till the end of August. Every year though it seemed like we went back a little earlier, till by the time I finished we were going back in the second week of August
Now kids are going back in July, but they get more breaks throughout the rest of the year.
You like the idea or no? If I were still a kid I'd prefer the long summer personally
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Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:22 am to thatguy45
For it...
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:30 am to thatguy45
They've recently instituted year-round school at a school district here, and I've been thinking a lot about it lately.
In elementary school, the school year for me began after the Memorial Day weekend and started up after the Labor Day weekend, but by high school, we were ending a week after Memorial Day and starting up a couple of weeks before Labor Day.
And we didn't get any more breaks during the year.
But, what we did have was a whole summer. That allowed us to spend a lot of time with family, which played a large role in my upbringing. We weren't even allowed to play organized summer sports after the t-ball years because we spent so much time as a family together on vacation or at an old lake cabin on the weekends. We did have summer jobs when we were in junior high and high school, but they were mainly a lot of weekday work or family farm jobs.
Year round school is going to end all of this. I am totally against it for this reason and for various other reasons having to do with breakdown of the family, dependence on government, and childhood socialization skills outside of a controlled environment.
In elementary school, the school year for me began after the Memorial Day weekend and started up after the Labor Day weekend, but by high school, we were ending a week after Memorial Day and starting up a couple of weeks before Labor Day.
And we didn't get any more breaks during the year.
But, what we did have was a whole summer. That allowed us to spend a lot of time with family, which played a large role in my upbringing. We weren't even allowed to play organized summer sports after the t-ball years because we spent so much time as a family together on vacation or at an old lake cabin on the weekends. We did have summer jobs when we were in junior high and high school, but they were mainly a lot of weekday work or family farm jobs.
Year round school is going to end all of this. I am totally against it for this reason and for various other reasons having to do with breakdown of the family, dependence on government, and childhood socialization skills outside of a controlled environment.
This post was edited on 8/2/21 at 10:33 am
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:34 am to thatguy45
I'm against anything the Neo-Nazi/Communist Red Citizen Army is for
MIC, media, all the way down to stupid everyday women who watch The View and cheer every govt push to take away our freedom
MIC, media, all the way down to stupid everyday women who watch The View and cheer every govt push to take away our freedom
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:36 am to DownSouthJukin
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reasons having to do with breakdown of the family, dependence on government, and childhood socialization skills outside of a controlled environment.
fricking A
Posted on 8/2/21 at 2:22 pm to DownSouthJukin
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Year round school is going to end all of this.
The only year round school I ever heard of was 8 weeks on, 2 weeks off, all year. That wouldn’t be so bad and kids will still be able to spend time with their families. Plus they have breaks to look forward to all year, instead of grinding to Christmas and then grinding to summer.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 2:46 pm to thatguy45
If we hope to stop the slide in comparison to Asian and European schools, we need to reform our public school system. Better teachers and a year round schedule would certainly help.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 3:35 pm to thatguy45
I just want better schools regardless of time frame. Stop teaching stuff that isn't useful, and no revisionist history either.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 4:14 pm to thatguy45
Yep one year on... one year off.... once a teenager.
And you get a job in between.
Kids would learn a lot. From money management, to choosing a paying profession, to how much easier it is in a classroom. Go another two if takes longer to graduate. And if you flunk it's both work and school to stay in sync.
And you get a job in between.
Kids would learn a lot. From money management, to choosing a paying profession, to how much easier it is in a classroom. Go another two if takes longer to graduate. And if you flunk it's both work and school to stay in sync.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 5:37 pm to thatguy45
Year round indoctrination must come soon !
Posted on 8/2/21 at 5:38 pm to Kentucker
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If we hope to stop the slide in comparison to Asian and European schools, we need to reform our public school system. Better teachers and a year round schedule would certainly help.
Year round school isn't adding that much extra time in the class room if on an 8 week on/2 week off schedule.
Let's be honest here: the real problem isn't the time spent in the classroom, it's what the children are being taught or influenced by while in the classroom and then not receiving any help or good influence at home because there is no family. Schools are too busy feeding children, acting as poor parental surrogates, teaching children the wrong way to solve problems, encouraging self-loathing, and trying to level the playing field for those who have no interest in progressing beyond a high school education.
Bring back vo-tech for those that don't want to move on to higher academia. At least teach them a trade. Get them away from the ones who do want to excel in math, science, literature, history, etc. and move on to higher education.
And of course better teachers would help-but politicians are too busy writing themselves higher paychecks and throwing money into an educational black hole, not enough of which goes to teacher's salaries and benefits, to do anything to truly fix this problem. Teachers should be paid at least the average salary of a pediatrician. They are both paid to work on children, and a teacher does it for a class full on a daily basis. If you want better teachers, you need to attract them.
But where would we get the money???? Cut back on social welfare and free handouts, plus (***GASP***) raise taxes on luxury items*. The gap between the haves and the have-nots is probably wider than it's ever been. If you (or your company) want to buy a $250,000 foreign car or a $3,000,000 plane, you can afford to pay a small percentage into the education kitty. But this will never happen because big money controls big government.
RANT [OFF] ON
*There are other places where the funds can be found including cutting useless pork barrel projects and studies and revising our corporate tax code so the dot.coms and others can’t hide in tax shelters overseas. But, again, this is unlikely to happen because big money keeps their politicians in check.
This post was edited on 8/3/21 at 12:55 am
Posted on 8/3/21 at 5:27 pm to thatguy45
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Thoughts on year round school?
I am for it. I wish we had year round school when I was a kid in the 70's/early 80's.
This post was edited on 8/3/21 at 5:30 pm
Posted on 8/3/21 at 6:11 pm to Blackie LeBlanc
What is needed is the old Japanese system.
Go to school and get tested. Fail you are sent back to try again. Two fail tries not the same year.
Pass, move forward.
Eventually, with failures, you go to school to be a manufacturing worker.
Go to school and get tested. Fail you are sent back to try again. Two fail tries not the same year.
Pass, move forward.
Eventually, with failures, you go to school to be a manufacturing worker.
Posted on 8/3/21 at 8:56 pm to thatguy45
Do you have kids in school?
Posted on 8/4/21 at 4:57 am to NYCAuburn
quote:So your asking thatguy
Do you have kids in school?
... which one are you?
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