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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a public school teacher. School is long and boring, especially for on task kids of average or above intelligence. We could cover the academic parts in probably two hours. Some kids like enrichment/extension activities to pass the time but other kids just view that is punishment.

It would be a lot better if we could shorten school and track kids, and not tolerate behaviors. But sped parents would freak out and we’d have to find a solution to the daycare piece.[/quote]

Tracking kids is more effective, especially if class sizes for the bottom tier are smaller (so the teacher has more time per student to help those students catch up).

That said, most parents will not tolerate tracking before HS, because every parent wants their child in the top track and not all students are top.

Look at FCPS where AAP is considered the upper track in elementary and look at so many parents doing whatever it takes to get their kids into AAP. The results including watering down the AAP curriculum in at least a few instances and some kids struggling in other cases where it is not watered down. AAP curriculum is standardized in theory, but reality is that it will be implemented in various ways at various schools. [/quote]

Point is, even in AAP there is tons of wasted time. Arrival time, morning work, specials (“library” for 50 minutes!) , recess, lunch, extra time early finishers spend waiting for everyone else. School doesn’t need to be 7 hours long or anywhere close, at any academic level. And I think it’s all the “extra” stuff that may school resistant kids bristle at. I know for my non-school loving child it was. It’s just a construct society needs because parents work or it could be much much shorter. [/quote]

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