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Domonique Toombs felt the same way when she learned she would stay for an extra three hours each day in sixth grade at Boston's Clarence R. Edwards Middle School.
"I was like, `Wow, are you serious?'" she said. "That's three more hours I won't be able to chill with my friends after school."
Wow, are you serious?
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"If your parents are high school dropouts with low literacy levels and reading for pleasure is not hard-wired, it's hard to be a good role model for your children, even if you really want to be," Alexander said.
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corduroy_blazer wrote:
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Domonique Toombs felt the same way when she learned she would stay for an extra three hours each day in sixth grade at Boston's Clarence R. Edwards Middle School.
"I was like, `Wow, are you serious?'" she said. "That's three more hours I won't be able to chill with my friends after school."
Wow, are you serious?
In her defense, would you have wanted to go to school until 6 or 7 at that age?
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Orpheus wrote:
corduroy_blazer wrote:
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Domonique Toombs felt the same way when she learned she would stay for an extra three hours each day in sixth grade at Boston's Clarence R. Edwards Middle School.
"I was like, `Wow, are you serious?'" she said. "That's three more hours I won't be able to chill with my friends after school."
Wow, are you serious?
In her defense, would you have wanted to go to school until 6 or 7 at that age?
No, but I didn't want to go to school at all at that age.
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Anyways, I can't wait for the right wing guys to try and spin this. "They're trying to re-educate our children!!!!" Especially having schools be open on weekends, which I think is a great idea. When I worked for an elementary school in a bad part of town it was obvious how important the school was to the community as a whole.
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I didn't read the article, but the more school the better. And ban MTV while we're at it as well.
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I could be on board with more school days but fewer actual school hours to compensate, and to create more opportunities for after-school options to increase social interaction.
I would be on board with less doing work for the sake of doing work and more letting kids learn naturally. Or something.
So you're for better teachers.
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aprilfifth wrote:
Buffalohed wrote:
I would be on board with less doing work for the sake of doing work and more letting kids learn naturally. Or something.
So you're for better teachers.
I honestly don't know.
I went to school in a very good area with a prestigious school district. Lots of families in Austin that could afford it moved to the area I lived to send their kids to school there. I am fairly sure I had a number of really good teachers and also a number of bad teachers. But once I reached 7th grade or so I went from being in all the talented and gifted classes to failing out of everything. From 7th-12th grade I literally learned nothing. And it wasn't because I didn't care. At the time, I wanted to be, literally, an astrophysicist. I read nonfiction books and my history books for fun. I just hated school except for football. I hated my classes and I hated the work, so I didn't do it.
I don't know very much about education. I don't know what needs to be fixed or how. All I know is that there are a lot of people out there that WANT to learn that aren't, and that is because schools for whatever reason do not promote real learning and they are not engaging to students with any kind of variation in thought process.
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Buffalohed wrote:
I don't know very much about education. I don't know what needs to be fixed or how. All I know is that there are a lot of people out there that WANT to learn that aren't, and that is because schools for whatever reason do not promote real learning and they are not engaging to students with any kind of variation in thought process.
I think something that is helping with this is the trend of having "academies" in high schools ( as well as high schools dedicated to things like the performing arts) that allow kids to pursue an education that is more focused on what they're interested in. My former high school now has a math academy and a science academy that kids can choose to take more focused classes in. Sounds like exactly the sort of thing you could have used.
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