Would you support 200 day school year?

[Anonymous]

Richmond Public School District has increased the number of days of the school year to counter Covid learning loss. Would you support that if your district did it? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/virginia-school-district-expands-academic-year/

[Anonymous]

They can only afford it due to donations from “philanthropists.” There’s no way that most school districts could afford to do this, support or not.

[Anonymous]

A billion percent (I am a teacher in a Title I school). We waste so much time getting kids back into routines and making up for massive learning loss over the summer. If this was offered in my district, I would transfer schools to teach on that schedule.

[Anonymous]

No, and I don't believe in covid learning loss. I think its a bad curriculum and students not getting the supports they need.

[Anonymous]

I don't know. I used to say we needed year round school. I used to say we also needed a longer school year. Students lose so much over the 9-10 week summer it's ridiculous. And they lose it again and again every year. I used to say we should have a 4 week summer, and have a week long Feb break, a week or two long April break, off all July, then a week off the end of Sept or beginning October.
But, I've seen just how schools are all at the end of themselves. I don't know if staff have it in them to give one more hour. I see an entire nation's worth of schools just waiting to implode. I don't have any answers and as someone who has dedicated her life to this job, I'm just kind of hoping for a miracle at this point.

[Anonymous]

I thnk we should have year round school. That would counter learning loss that happens annually over summer break. It would also make it so people could actually travel at times other than the summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A billion percent (I am a teacher in a Title I school). We waste so much time getting kids back into routines and making up for massive learning loss over the summer. If this was offered in my district, I would transfer schools to teach on that schedule.

I see at our school, that kids watched a movie twice this week when it was raining or too hot for outdoor recess. I see that they don't do ANYTHING the last 2 weeks of school. I see that the days before each break are empty. I see that my kids are bored because they are not challenged and are not free to do more in school. I agree school should be year-round, but I also think teachers should be paid more and tech should play a much smaller part and we should stop teaching for the test and teach for life.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not. Learning loss has much to do with poor parenting and not student inability. Go to the library and get your kids some books or have them take any of the 100s of free classes or programs online. My kids loved summer reading programs and would read dozens of books when in k-5 and prob a dozen or more in secondary.

We already go to school too many useless days, especially the first couple weeks and the last two months. Unless advanced track kids can finish 3 years of class in 2 200 day school years, it'll prevent my kids from doing other things they want to do outside of school. And no we are not wealthy and go on trips during breaks.

[Anonymous]

No. Who will do the harvest.

[Anonymous]

As a teacher I would only support this (i.e. work) if it was moved to a year-round schedule, which I would love.

[Anonymous]

No way. I’m a teacher and might have been okay with this when my own kids were younger. Now that they are teens, they are doing other things in the summer and don’t want or need a longer school year. I can see how they are getting ready for the college years and how they will like having classes on a semester basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thnk we should have year round school. That would counter learning loss that happens annually over summer break. It would also make it so people could actually travel at times other than the summer.

No, they would get to travel at other times. They are in school more.

[Anonymous]

Nope

[Anonymous]

COVID poured fuel on the fire. Things were already going in a bad direction in terms of screens and disruptive behavior.

Since this idea costs money I would be in favor of using the 180 days in a better way: less time wasted. More teachers and more support people in the schools. More bad behavior dealt with immediately. Or at least more quickly.

So much time is wasted. And not just on the days before and after vacations. Nearly every day is inefficient.

-Teacher

[Anonymous]

I prefer a year round school and cut out a ton of the fluff.