Longer School Days? Have they gone insane?

[microchip13]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070224/ap_o...kGV5PMWM0F


How about just cutting the crap and offering it as optional extra curricular activities?

[grad]

Well, they have to fit in extra school time to deal with the new testing requirements mandated by "No Child Left Behind." Sounds like a plausible idea... but maybe just for a select # of students if they choose, or are required to attend.

[Jack D.]

Maybe the studints shud just axe 'em why they are doin dis.

[kap]

I think the "No Child Left Behind" has been in effect many years ago ... a high school classmate of mine graduated high school without knowing how to do multiplication. I asked her how she had managed to avoid it. She answered nonchalantly, "I just would add."

Kap

[The Grim Ninja]

Some children need to be left behind so the others stand a chance to succeed.

[Thrift Store Scott]

Furthermore, where is the quid pro quo flip side to "No Child Left Behind"?

For example, if a student's test scores reveal that student is reading and writing on a 12th grade level while still in the 8th grade, why then is that student still required to take 9th, 10th, and 11th grade English?

[RgrF]

[quote Thrift Store Scott]Furthermore, where is the quid pro quo flip side to "No Child Left Behind"?

For example, if a student's test scores reveal that student is reading and writing on a 12th grade level while still in the 8th grade, why then is that student still required to take 9th, 10th, and 11th grade English?
They are not! At least not in districts with enriched studies programs, they advance at their own pace as do those in special study programs.

While there are programs that benefit the top and bottom level of student bodies, the vast middle gets precious little either extra effort or money aimed at them. Sound familiar?

[cbelt3]

I dunno I went to a private school from 8 AM until 5 PM. then 2-3 hours of homework a night. And yes, I rode my bike to and from school, 5 miles, uphill and down (so it was uphill both ways). So when I got to Engineering school, I already had enough credits to be a sophomore.

[davester]

I'm with cbelt. I went to school in england until 8th grade, where the hours are much longer and the summer vacation only 3 weeks long. When I moved here, I was amazed at how little time we spent at school and how easy the material was. Of course, we graduated two years earlier in england. I think the current school days are way too short. In many cases the classwork is compressed into timeslots that are insufficient for learning the material.

[Racer X]

many countries. the school year is 11 months.