Shit got turbocharged after 9/11, the next major education reform needs to be the "all children chill the fuck out" bill - free food at schools three times daily including weekends, big time after school program funding, equalizing funding between schools so our most heavily populated ones aren't the most poorly funded, paying staff and especially teachers better so that the profession is more attractive and gets more people and more talent, eliminating standardized tests as a requirement for college admissions and frankly eliminating grades as a measure of school achievement. People hate me for this one but we also have to shorten up summer break - spread those days off throughout the year if you want to keep them, but there's no reason to have a multi-month gap where most kids forget a ton of shit and have to relearn it the next year.
yeah, give them like an hour long lunch break like they do in France
eliminating standardized tests as a requirement for college admissions and frankly eliminating grades as a measure of school achievement.
hell yes
I don't know about getting rid of Summer break. I'd agree with having more smaller vacations throughout the year though. It's not like they're teaching very hard in school anyways, nobody's forgetting anything important over the Summer vacation -- least of all anything they can't just pick up again in a single class session.
Shit got turbocharged after 9/11, the next major education reform needs to be the "all children chill the fuck out" bill - free food at schools three times daily including weekends, big time after school program funding, equalizing funding between schools so our most heavily populated ones aren't the most poorly funded, paying staff and especially teachers better so that the profession is more attractive and gets more people and more talent, eliminating standardized tests as a requirement for college admissions and frankly eliminating grades as a measure of school achievement. People hate me for this one but we also have to shorten up summer break - spread those days off throughout the year if you want to keep them, but there's no reason to have a multi-month gap where most kids forget a ton of shit and have to relearn it the next year.
yeah, give them like an hour long lunch break like they do in France
hell yes
I don't know about getting rid of Summer break. I'd agree with having more smaller vacations throughout the year though. It's not like they're teaching very hard in school anyways, nobody's forgetting anything important over the Summer vacation -- least of all anything they can't just pick up again in a single class session.