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SCHOOL YEAR & SCHOOL DAY SCHOOL YEAR OUTLINE
SCHOOL DAY OUTLINE
PARAGRAPH That is the way I want it. Traditionally in the USA we go 180 days of school each year and this number varies thought the whole world. I do feel we need some extra school days for all the students up through eighth grade so they can meet my national set standards. I would like to see more information and studies done on the Extended school year idea. Some people also call it year round education. One of the main problems that is addressed by the Extended school year idea is that students are not learning during the summer break and that alone is helping to cause poor reading standards. So to fix this they change the breaks that a student takes throughout the year. I keep with current traditions of a 180-day a year schedule for high school students. This does allow for summer school if needed and proper time if a school district wants to schedule a drivers ed class. If we go less than 180 days out of the year under the current USA educational system we are just short-changing the students. Now you can go less days a week and have a longer school day to make up for loss class time for the week, but I do not think that is good either. I want students ready for the workforce and college when they get out of high school which will be impaired if a school district has less than 180 days in a school year. I want quality, do you want quality??? Now I do not care when you start a school year and end a school year. I just care about getting in 200 days of schooling for K-8th grade students and 180 days of schooling for 9-12th grade students. Start time for classes under my plan is 8AM. I do not think it should be any later for students. Later start times will mean students will be better rested and more alert in class. Later finishes to the school day will easily contribute to fewer students in extracurricular activities, less high school students holding part time jobs, and less students in high school sports, all of which are bad things. When I talk about class period length on other pages of this website I will go by the max class period length of 45 minutes for each period. Now if a school needs to chunk a minute or 2 off that time, it is fine with me. Minimum length I would accept for a class period would be 40 minutes long. That time length imo still can provide enough instruction time for all students imo. That time length will make sure that students do not go for too long a school day either. When I talk about a lunch period on other pages of this website I make it 30 minutes long. That is a minimum for me and it is what goes perfectly with a 45-minute maximum class period length. If a school needs to chunk like 1 minute off per class and add that to the lunch period I am perfectly fine with it. Block scheduling is a new way to look at how you schedule a student’s class day. In block scheduling you go every other day to a class, which means that classes you use to go 45 minutes a day go 90 minutes a day now. If a school or even school district wants to go down the block-scheduling route it is fine with me. The main thing I only care about is getting a proper curriculum taught to the students. 4 days a week schooling is starting to catch on in the poor school district. To me it won't help the students at all in trying to meet my national set standards. To me only doing a four-day school week helps in scheduling doctor, hair, and etc… appointments for the teachers, students, and other staff inside the school, which is not much of a good thing at all. For the parents it is no good at all because if they are working during the week, they need someone to watch over the kid. The parents could wind up with a cost of day care that they can’t afford which is no good. Q&A NA. SOURCES Hui, T. Keung "Middle schools next to convert" News & Observer (2006)
n. pag. Online. Internet. August 15, 2006 Leavell, Linda "Early school start dates likely to disappear" Dallas
Morning News (2006)
n. pag. Online. Internet. August 15, 2006 Dean, Charles J. "School start date stirs debate" The Birmingham
News (2006)
n.pag. Online. Internet. August 5, 2006 Hawkins, Megan "Advocates
vow to continue fight over school start times"
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2006 Campbell, Lynn "More Iowa schools go year-round" Des Moines
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n. oag. Online. Internet. July 11, 2006 Townsend, Angela "Richmond Hts. debates longer school year" Cleveland
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Moines Register (2006)
n. pag. Online. Internet. March 22, 2006 Bolten, Kathy A "Number of days in school not key, consultant says" Des
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Star (2006)
n. pag. Online. Internet. February 22, 2006 Moreau, Carolyn "School Start Time Unsettled" Hartford
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pag. Online. Internet. January 24, 2006 Strauss, Valerie "Schools Waking Up to Teens' Unique Sleep
Needs" Washington
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add 5 weeks to school year" Star
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n. pag. online. Internet. December 8, 2005 Altimari, Daniela, & Carolyn Moreau "Block Scheduling
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Observer (2005) n. pag. Online. Internet. December 6, 2005 Winn, Patrick"Schools approve seven-period day" News Observer (2005)
n. pag. Online. Internet. November 19, 2005 Spielman, Fran, & Kate N. Grossman" Daley pushes
year-round school" Chicago Sun-Times (2005) n. pag. Online. Internet.
October 12, 2005 "Cities eye longer school days" Boston Globe & AP (2005) n. pag.
Online. Internet. October 3, 2005 Mathews, Peter "Jackson schools' week cut to 4 days" Lexington
Herald-Leader (2005) n. pag. online. Internet. September 23, 3005 Sampson, Hannah & Matthew I. Pinzur"Later school start possible"
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LA Times (2005) n. pag. online. Internet. September 6, 2005 Moran, Chris "Local schools abandoning traditional start dates"
San Diego Union-Tribune (2005) n. pag. Online. Internet. August 26, 2005 Gutierrez, Bridget "School start dates push into July, despite
protest" Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2005) n. pag. Online, Internet.
July 29,
2005 Neufeld, Sara "Year-round schooling to end at Coleman Elementary,
officials say" Baltimore Sun (2005) n. pag. Online. Internet.
July 28, 2005 Carolyn Bower "Extended-year schools head back midsummer" St.
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10, 2005 Hui, T. Keung "Wake County proposes converting up to 20
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n. pag. Online. Internet. June 8, 2005 Dabney, Michael "School to end block schedule" Indy Star (2005)
n. pag. Online. Internet.March 26, 2005 Mitchell, Josh "90-minute classes for high schools proposed" Baltimore
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at Drummond School" St. Louis Post-Dispatch(2005) n. pag. Online. Internet.
February
14, 2005 Byrd, Lisa Lavia"Johnston proposal moves up school start
date" Des Moines Register (2005) n. pag. Online. Internet. January 20,
2005 Jan, Tracy, Janette A Neuwah"Long day draws interest at school" Boston
Globe (2005) n. pag. Online.
Internet. January 15, 2005 Sanders, Jim "Four-day school week draws fans" Sacramento
Bee (2004)
n. pag. Online. Internet. December 25, 2004 Smith, Dean "KC schools approve extra classes" Kansas City
Star (2004)
n. pag. Online. Internet. December 16, 2004 Gao, Helen "A later start time for schools?" SanDiego Union-Tribune (2004) n. pag. Online.Internet.December 15, 2004 Matzelle, Carl"Most 4-day schools small, rural" Cleveland
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Online. Intenet December 9, 2004 Carroll, Doug"Too little sleep can hurt teen's time at school" Arizaona
Republic (2004) n. pag. Online. Internet. November 16, 2004 Hu, Winnie"Saturday Classes Begin for 5th Graders at Risk" NY
Times (2004) n. pag. Online. Internet. Novemner 7, 2004 Spencer, Jason "Yearly debate begins on schools' start dates" Houston
Chronicle (2004) n. pag. Online. Internet. October 21, 2004 Hull, Dana "Some schools flirting with 4-day week" Mercury
News (2004) n. pag. Online. Internet. October 4, 2004 Richard, Alan "Storm-Weary Fla. Schools To Seek Policy Waivers" Education
Week (2004) vol: 24 n: 4 pag: 1, 19 September 22, 2004 Hui, T. Keung "Wake year-round program may grow" News Observer (2004) n. pag. Online. Internet. September 22, 2004 Fulton Delawese "Middle school classes get longer" News
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2004) n. pag. Online. Internet August 17,
2004 Pinzur, Matthew I."39 schools may face longer days,
year" Miami
Herald (2004) n. pag. Online. Internet. August 12, 2004 Simon, Peter"More and more children are vacationing in class" Buffalo
News (2004) n. pag. Online. Internet. July 29, 2004 Alighandhi, Sakari "Year-round schooling gets high marks" Rocky
Mountain News (2004)
n. pag. Online. Internet. July 27, 2004 Barbier, Sandra "Board gives school block scheduling high marks"
NOLA.com (2004) n. pag. Online. Internet. June 17, 2004 "Education officials approve new plan for longer instructional
day"
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Picayune (2004) n.
pag. Online. Internet. April 14, 2004 Bishop, Tricia "Board delays decision on days" Baltimore
Sun (2004) n. pag. Online. Internet. February 13, 2004 "Washoe officials take survey on school calendar" Reno
Gazette-Journal (2004) n. pag. Online. Internet. January 6, 2004 "Cash-strapped schools going to four-day week" CNN.com & AP (2003) n.
pag. Online. Internet. November 7, 2003 "Students riot at Montwood" kvia.com (2003)n. pag. Online.
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