More School Hours?

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This is a twist from a few months ago when in the Senate it was being proposed schools should adopt a 4 day school week.
We now have Obama saying quite the opposite with proposing children are not having enough hours of schooling.

"Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the president said earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom."

The president, who has a sixth-grader and a third-grader, wants schools to add time to classes, to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place to go.

Does he have a point? Should the Gov't be anymore involved in school decisions as it already is?
 
But simply adding minutes to math and reading classes or tacking on a few more days to the calendar has little effect on student achievement, according to the National Academy of Education. Researchers have found that every 10 percent increase in school time will produce only a 2 percent increase in learning.
 
It is quality, not quantity, that matters. The US stresses way too much on college and further education. Not every high school student is going to college. Also, the material they teach is not need in the real world. Sure, classes like Math and English are needed, but not 70th grade level. Just keep it simple. Students are not applying themselves to the material. And who can blame them? Other countries have more common sense/real world applications as well as vocational routes. As far as the US is concerned, every person in America should have at least 8 years of college and be a doctor or a lawyer. Why do you think that so many jobs are no longer in America. Because nobody is doing them. Why do you think that so many kids drop out?
 
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