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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now add 2 hours on to the end of the day and tell me how they feel. Would they be happy getting home from school at 4:30 or 5:30?

Or we keep the shorter day but add on weeks to make up for the 2 hours that we are cutting from the day, so shorter summer.

Which is it?

1) Current schedule
2) Later release time
3) Longer school year but shorter days[/quote]

You are thinking too narrowly. Public schools have a huge amount of wasted, non-learning time during the day. Breaks, transitions, for elementary students there are too many "specials", for older kids free periods. You could easily accomplish the same amount of actual learning in a shorter school day if you tried, with no need to extend the school day or school year.

But people get attached to the idea of "instructional hours" as an essential metric for school quality without thinking critically about how many of those instructional hours actually include instruction. It's so many fewer than you think. Your kids are dragging themselves to school at 7 or 8 am in order to spend half of their school day waiting, walking between classes, or engaged in an independent activity they could easily do at home.[/quote]

How are you proposing to do away from walking between classes? [/quote]

Have the teachers move. That’s what they used to do in Germany. Kids stay put in one room and teachers move. The kids got a 15 minute break at some point and were home by lunchtime. They also had no specials. [/quote]

So how do you handle differentiation in high school?  Are all kids supposed to take the same classes every year?  Do you really think you will save more time having teachers move from class to class when students already only get 4 minutes between classes?  [/quote]

Yes, the same kids stayed together as a class all the way through the final year. They were tracked already from 5th grade on [b](some kids weeded out to go to vocational school) [/b]and were on track to get their Abitur and be college ready. They were all required to take the same classes (2-3 Languages included) and pass exams at the end of their 13th year to get their Abitur. And then they may go to any university in Germany.[/quote]

Yes.  They were weeded out by a test they took at 10 years old.  
And, don't forget the ones that were weeded out for the commercial course.

No thanks![/quote]

Ten is definitely too young of an age for kids to be tracked  permanently for the rest of their schooling,  However, I think are many high school kids who are on the traditional educational path who would benefit more from (and enjoy more) practical/ vocational learning.   [/quote]

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