Were out the 6th of June here and in Sept 1st. They start at 8:30 and get off at 3:30. In Florida they started mid august and got out 2 week of June but the hours were 8:30 to 1:55. We left Florida with our girls almost 2 years behind what they were teaching in Wisconsin yet the school they were in in Florida passed the No Child Left Behind standards and the school in Wisconsin failed it. The difference was the Florida school dumbed down to curriculum so they could pass the NCLB where the Wisconsin School kept the advance curriculum and tried to help the "not so smart" kids. Same here in Montana. The school my girls go to is very advance and does not meet NCLB because there are a small percentage of kids who have a hard time learning (many are lazy IMHO) which fails the school. Year around school does not help a damn thing. The NCLB law is what is screwing up our education system. The teachers here call it the "No Teacher Left Standing Law"

It's quality not quantity of the time and classes at school. Last year my 1st yr high schooler had 3 PE classes! Granted she now has all credits in PE required for graduation, but really, what did she learn for use in life? This yr she has 2 classes on development in early childhood and parenting! She was actually insulted with these classes as she wants a career, not babies ( until later.) She wants to learn but most classes don't offer the knowledge she wants. Just because she's 16, it seems that the school system expects her to become a teen mother. HA! We raised her better than they think we did. And in this state, it seems all the schools focus on is that FCAT test they have every yr! Revision of the subjects is needed, not revision of time spent at school!

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Somebody mind showing me where it says the president has the power to even suggest this, let alone enact policy?

And how many hours per day do your own children spend in school?
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And how many hours per day do your own children spend per day doing homework?
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sorry RK, but i gotta call bull-butter on this

my 6th grader has on average, 2.5 hours of homework, monday thru friday, on stuff i have to read the textbook to help her with
(who said i'd never use algerbra after high school?)

my 3rd grader gets about 1 hour's worth, plus his spelling words

the youngest starts kindergarden next year, and im looking forward to helping her
(hey...dads can like to color too)

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

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i believe Roadkills comment about homework was sarcasm..

i never did homework in school because i simply didn't want to. most of my grades ended up around Cs or Bs anyway. why? cause for whatever reason i test well and i remember practically everything. if i had done the homework i would have probably spent at least 2 or 3 hours every night doing it. not including research papers or speeches.

its not the hours worked or amount of work given. its the quality of the work. there are companies that you're on salary just get your work done and you can have a 4 or more day weekend. interesting concept eh?

C's get degrees.

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I am just saying there is some merit to the idea
My ex was a math/ science teacher at the jr high highschool level and one of her complaints was she spent the first part of the school year reteaching the end of the previous year and that after a 3 month break the did not practice the skills enough to retain them well
and the students she taught in summer school did better than those that took the break as this period was much less

there are many studies on young minds and how they learn best and we don't heed many of them as they are a change
such as they preform cognitive functions better at mid morning and after physical activity if they eat breakfast etc...

it does not have to be a political issue