Mayor Daily of Chicago wants to push for 6 day school weeks. . .

[episodic]

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_324111749.html

6 days of school? Yea. . .the whole more minutes in school thing has really worked so far.

Sheesh, coming from a family of teachers, I can safely say 5 is enough.

 

[mwtgg]

Too much time off? What a douche. He has more important things to worry about than pissing kids off. Then he says we should be more like the Chinese? Screw him.

 

[Bateluer]

I'm not sure about 6 day school weeks, it wouldn't be good for students with afterschool and weekend jobs.
Although, having 6 day school weeks would allow the school year to go buy much quicker.

I always did favor 9 weeks of school, then two weeks break, 9 more weeks of school.

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
I'm not sure about 6 day school weeks, it wouldn't be good for students with afterschool and weekend jobs.
Although, having 6 day school weeks would allow the school year to go buy much quicker.

I always did favor 9 weeks of school, then two weeks break, 9 more weeks of school.

Nah, he just wants them to go to school more.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: Bateluer
I'm not sure about 6 day school weeks, it wouldn't be good for students with afterschool and weekend jobs.
Although, having 6 day school weeks would allow the school year to go buy much quicker.

I always did favor 9 weeks of school, then two weeks break, 9 more weeks of school.

Nah, he just wants them to go to school more.

Well, more schooling certainly wouldn't hurt most kids. 😛

 

[Super56K]

The problem is that the kids who are struggling now probably aren't going to benefit very much from the extra day of school. Whatever happened to quality, not quantity?

 

[mwmorph]

? i dont think he as his chinese facts right.
we used to have 6 day aschool days but it's now 5 for almost every county.
we do have summer vacations. always did, always will as long as i could remember(hangzhou city, zhejiang province).(lived there till i was 5, i still go back every 4 years and my family comes over in every 4 years(1999, i went back, 2001 family came over, 2003 i went back, 2005 family came over, etc ever sin i came here.).

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: Super56K
The problem is that the kids who are struggling now probably aren't going to benefit very much from the extra day of school. Whatever happened to quality, not quantity?

They should be spending more money paying the teachers to do a better job. 6 days would suck really bad, because how are you going to pay for college if you can't work the weekends? What an ass. (the mayor)

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: Einstein Element

Originally posted by: Super56K
The problem is that the kids who are struggling now probably aren't going to benefit very much from the extra day of school. Whatever happened to quality, not quantity?

They should be spending more money paying the teachers to do a better job. 6 days would suck really bad, because how are you going to pay for college if you can't work the weekends? What an ass. (the mayor)

It for the most part isn't that teachers are doing a terrible job. The problem is that education today focuses on passing standardized tests. It focuses on everyone operating on grade level. It focuses on teaching to the median to get the greatest result. The very bright are marginalized.

Every theory on learning is pretty much disregarded in education. Almost all theories state that people learn differently and at different paces. However they group by age and place 25 children in 1 class together just because they all happen to be 12.

 

[raz3000]

I am a graduate of the Chicago Public Schools. I don't think 6 days will work, but I do think that there are too many days off. The federal gov't mandates 181 school days out of 365 a year (less than half), and that's exactly how many school days we have. There are so many crappy days off like "teacher instute day" x 4 and recently they began taking off on report-card days as well. How about they start making 5-day school weeks instead of jumping to 6?

 

[johnnqq]

i stare out the window for at least 5 minutes in each class...

 

[Injury]

Dayton Public Schools in Ohio has gone to a year-round schedule. Nobody but the kids are complaining about that one.

 

[Toonces]

should someone start to push for a 6 day work week for the city government (with no pay raise)

hmm, wonder what response that will get

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: Einstein Element

Originally posted by: Super56K
The problem is that the kids who are struggling now probably aren't going to benefit very much from the extra day of school. Whatever happened to quality, not quantity?

They should be spending more money paying the teachers to do a better job. 6 days would suck really bad, because how are you going to pay for college if you can't work the weekends? What an ass. (the mayor)

It for the most part isn't that teachers are doing a terrible job. The problem is that education today focuses on passing standardized tests. It focuses on everyone operating on grade level. It focuses on teaching to the median to get the greatest result. The very bright are marginalized.

Every theory on learning is pretty much disregarded in education. Almost all theories state that people learn differently and at different paces. However they group by age and place 25 children in 1 class together just because they all happen to be 12.

yeap.

My wife was a teacher for a few years. She got tired of the board saying what and how she was to teach. She would spend more time "preparing" for the stupid state/federal testing that the kids would not learn much. She would complain it is a huge waste of her and the students time.

With the new "no child left behind" law it is even worse. I really worry about the education that kids are getting today.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: UNESC0
should someone start to push for a 6 day work week for the city government (with no pay raise)

hmm, wonder what response that will get

:thumbsup:

It's laughable how the people who make the laws are in such disconnect with the reality of the situation sometimes.

 

[imported_goku]

I find this all terribly ironic because my cousin who used to live in israel said that when he was a kid, he'd go to school for about 4 hours a day, 5 days a week and would have longer summers than we did so....