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Longer school day for all to help disadvantaged kids do better?

Long school day to close achievement gap?

  • Yes, every child should spend more time in school!

    Votes: 9 33.3%

  • Only the children who need it should spend more time in school.

    Votes: 8 29.6%

  • No one should spend more time in school

    Votes: 4 14.8%

  • I can't stand Obama, he makes me sick with his grandiosity

    Votes: 2 7.4%

  • I believe in unschooling. Schools are brainwashing institutions

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • If Obama thinks it's a good idea it probably is

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • other

    Votes: 4 14.8%
  • Total voters
    27
Every kid benefits from more school, not just disadvantaged kids. The US education system is falling way behind the rest of the world. This would be a major step towards catching up. Why do students need the summer off anymore anyways? It used to be that they needed to help with the farming... That doesn't make sense anymore. Now most kids have both parents working so they just spend the summer in day care or something. Why not just swap that out for something educational instead?
 
Hatuey said:
I think the militant way in which Japanese kids are taught that education is essential is what attracts me about Japan's education system. It's almost like a matter of honor to do well in school.
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How do you instill this sense of honor in the students?

But I doubt anything like this would happen in a country that values redneck politicians over those who've gone to university.
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Another bigoted, partisan dig.
What a surprise.
 
Goobieman said:
How do you instill this sense of honor in the students?
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Shame them into believing that failure is not acceptable from the minute they hit school.

Another bigoted, partisan dig.
What a surprise.
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Partisan? Bigoted? In what sense? Being a redneck isn't a lifestyle....? Is it? Oh are you talking about Sarah Palin?
 
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Hatuey said:
Shame them into believing that failure is not acceptable from the minute they hit school.
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Funny... that's how it -used- to be.

Partisan? Bigoted? In what sense?
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Look up thw words - your answer will be self-evdient.
Or they would be, should you possess any degree of intellectual honesty.
 
Goobieman said:
Funny... that's how it -used- to be.
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Mkay?

WWW.DICTIONARY.COM
Look up thw words - your answer will be self-evdient.
Or they would be, should you possess any degree of intellectual honesty.
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So unable to say why it was bigoted, partisan or for that matter - you know - untrue? Oh Goobieman. You're a silly man - why don't you go clean your water guns or something? Adults are speaking.
 
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Hatuey said:
Mkay?
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Yes. Why do you suppose that changed?

So unable to say why it was bigoted, partisan or for that matter
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Hardly. Given your well-demonstrated lack of honesty, you'd never admit to it regardless of the evidence presented, and as such, there's no sense in wasting the time.

Adults are speaking
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They WERE... then you showed up...
 
Well you do seem bigoted against Rednecks...


But I agree...more shame in failure at school, and more shame as punishment in our correctional process. I think the world will be a better place.
 
Crunch said:
Getting rid of the teachers unions would also go a long way towards improving our school system..... as it stands now, once hired, teachers can't be fired without a long and expensive process no matter how incompetent they are.
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That is not true. Once teachers have tenure it is more difficult to fire them but it is not much more lengthy than it is to fire any other professional. It requires the supervisor(principal) to document problems and that those problems have been discussed and that the teacher has not fixed the problem.

On the other hand a non-tenured teacher can be fired for anything except race, religion, or gender. Beginning teachers are often thrown to the wolves, given the toughest classes and then little if any help from the principal. I've also seen good teachers who get great recommendations for the principal but are fired by the school board for reasons such as not giving a board member kid enough play time or failing a board members kid.
 
American said:
Total and utter BULL****. What we need are qualified teachers and a real curriculum that's worth a ****. We don't need longer hours. We need to teach our children information that's worth learning. Homeschoolers prove this every day by using less hours to get more done.
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How do you know that homeschoolers prove this? They are not required to take any standardized tests. The only ones who do tend to do in-school testing are those who are headed off to college, which is not a measure of the overall effectiveness of homeschooling.

Try to know what you're talking about before you open your mouth.
 
Cephus said:
How do you know that homeschoolers prove this? They are not required to take any standardized tests. The only ones who do tend to do in-school testing are those who are headed off to college, which is not a measure of the overall effectiveness of homeschooling.

Try to know what you're talking about before you open your mouth.
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Oh man, I knew this home-schooled kid at my Dad's house...and he was like 2 grades behind my little brother and sister in terms of general knowledge and critical thinking skills. It was kinda sad. :'(
 
Hatuey said:
No offense. But if you go into an American school today, they're all pretty disadvantaged.

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If this doesn't reaffirm "stereotypes" I don't know what will. What we need is a system like Japan's.
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Well yeah, it's easy to say that today, but just remember - one of our earliest presidents (I don't remember which one) didn't even know how to read until after he was elected to office (his wife was a teacher and taught him to read after he became president).

So it's easy to bash the public school system, but if we didn't have it we'd have 100X as many illiterates as we do today.

As for this article, I think that longer school years should be required for the disadvantaged, but not for students who meet their grade requirements.
 
EpicDude86 said:
Oh man, I knew this home-schooled kid at my Dad's house...and he was like 2 grades behind my little brother and sister in terms of general knowledge and critical thinking skills. It was kinda sad. :'(
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Unfortunately, the "home-schooled" statistics are terribly skewed, we get to see maybe the top 5-10% of student scores, otherwise they're not required to tell anyone how they're doing, there's no controls whatsoever on what is taught or if *ANYTHING* is taught. A parent can use a 3rd grade textbook all the way up until the kid is in high school and nobody can stop them.
 
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