Longer school year

[XxNoMercyxX]

6 weeks summer holiday is what we have in the UK. How long is the holdiay for kids in the US?

It's like 10 weeks here. It's pretty awesome. And, I personally like the long time away. Less stress from my hard classes to deal with.

 

[Crabturtleking]

6 weeks summer holiday is what we have in the UK. How long is the holdiay for kids in the US?

For me atleast, it's from june to mid-august.

 

[SimuLord]

i think they should have better education rather than longer school years.

Quiet you, making sense is strictly verboten when discussing educational policy in the Western world...at least if politicians' attitudes toward it are anything to go by.

 

[L4hlborg]

Having an almost continuous year would probably help you keep focused on subjects, a break too long might actually make you forget what you've learnt, making revision necessary to waste good learning time.

Isn't that a testament to the fact that nearly everything we learn in school is notionistic bullshit that we'll forget a couple of weeks after having finished school?

Not exactly. You might forget something that you think is useless at the time, but is later required to learn something truely useful.

 

[Enigmers]

If you're in a room for 10 months out of the year listening to crap for six hours a day and it's not working, that's not an indication that "oh we're on the right track, we just need to do it for a couple weeks more and that would make things all better" it's an indication that YER DOIN' IT WRONG.

In other words, I am +1 for "actually teaching" instead of "keeping us in school longer."

 

[YuheJi]

Wouldn't work where I live (California) considering the enormous budget problems we already have. The governor was even saying that teachers going on strike would be a good thing, because it meant they wouldn't be paid.

 

[RebelRising]

i think they should have better education rather than longer school years.

My head exploded.

Bu seriously, the quality of teaching and the students' receptiveness to said teaching is not going to be improved with longer school years. They should focus on better teachers who can educate with a compressed budget.

 

[Stoic raptor]

we already have extra school because of these snow days, we dont need more school

 

[Julianking93]

7 hours of torture for 180 days a year is enough.

This. That's why I got my GED. Now I dont have to take that shit everyday.

Fuck no. Y'all should adopt the Italian style of school years.

From the 15th of September to the 6th of June, from 8:20 in the morning to 12:20 in the afternoon with three months holidays in the summer.

Aah, Viva Life!

This too. I didn't think any school would be that lenient. I wish I went to school in Italy.

 

[FinalHeart95]

i think they should have better education rather than longer school years.

This. Quality over quantity. You can teach someone as long as you want, but if you're a horrible teacher they won't learn shit.

 

[Nimbus]

Maybe not a whole year, but I think they should extend it in the UK most schools get 6 weeks off in the summer. I always thought that is far too long.

6 weeks? Fuck! That's short! What hours do you have when you do have school?

 

[El Poncho]

Making the school year longer probably would make a difference because this year my teachers struggled to get what we were learning done on time and went through the last topic quickly , which didn't help me at all, maybe extending the school year would take pressure off teachers so they can teach there subject better and can go over the topic to cover things that people have not understood.

i think they should have better education rather than longer school years.

This. Quality over quantity. You can teach someone as long as you want, but if you're a horrible teacher they won't learn shit.

But Quality can be increased with more time to teach.

 

[dreadmaster]

lok in some schools it mey be axcepted and hell maby even help scores but in my school where the scores are and i quot from the sol 59 under 100 1 600 and 5 inbetwene 101 and 599 and the school has and large amount of smoking and freaking meth addicts runnin around so doing that at my school would cause rioting

 

[XJ-0461]

6 weeks summer holiday is what we have in the UK. How long is the holdiay for kids in the US?

It's like 10 weeks here. It's pretty awesome. And, I personally like the long time away. Less stress from my hard classes to deal with.

Are you joking?! That's freaking ages!

 

[similar.squirrel]

i think they should have better education rather than longer school years.

Hear hear. And no uniform.

 

[Damien the Pigeon]

I seriously doubt that extending the school year/day will improve test scores. If a student doesn't want to learn or hates school enough to shirk his or her homework, then how will making them go to school for a longer amount of time help them? Students that want to succeed will, and those that don't won't. If a student legitimately wants to learn but has trouble doing so, have a special program for them, but don't extend the day for everyone else.

 

[Ninja Tank]

School for me starts at 7:17 am and ends around 2:15 pm. On that we only get 10 weeks of summer but we don't get many days off during the school year only for big holidays. Even now the school board in my county is talking about getting rid of weekends. Glad I'm a senior this year with half days.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I think its fine. Where I live, atleast. Kids already stress out as it is. Extending the day, ok, but then you cannot extend the year. People will just perform worse, sleep in class more. It happened to my school when they extended school weeks into saturdays. So no, I don't think its a good idea at all.

 

[EvilMuffin094]

While it might raise test scores(notice i say MIGHT)it would surely put stress on both students and teachers/faculty.

 

[sneakypenguin]

i think they should have better education rather than longer school years.

This completely I was homeschooled each year for 2 hours a day from sept to april with may-august off and I turned out okay. I'm a Jr. in college with a decent GPA so no adverse effects there. so more time=/= better education.