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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a no vote. My kids need time to pursue all of the things they will never teach and never be able to do well in a school. I value after school hours, family dinners, peaceful evenings, and think summer is too short right now. I am quite certain that I'm a minority opinion though. [/quote]

(Unless there is a very robust and enriching plan about what to do with the extra time)[/quote]

+2 I think the desire to increase "instructional" time is to benefit students who never have "peaceful evenings", family dinners or anyone in their lives who support their education.

The irony is that the kids they're targeting will benefit the least. Let's be real, many of those kids really don't learn anything during the school day. Just look at the released PARCC scores. There were high schools with not ONE student who showed proficiency in reading and writing. Then there are schools where nearly 90% of the kids are on the honor roll but less than 10% showed proficiency in reading and writing. The kids are passed along but learn nothing. Lengthening the school year won't change that.

Kaya needs to focus on depth, not breadth. Quality education over quantity. A longer school day/year will just give those students more time to act out in a classroom, more teaching to be disrupted and more education to be disregarded.

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+3 and I have kids in elementary school. I would actually be happy if DCPS had less days off during the year and used the entire school year proficiently, we have noticed that after the end of April kids are working less, the last week or two or school is just a (fun) waste with water balloon fights on the playground and the like.

money and efforts should be concentrated on the kids who need help, the ones who get to MS and do not know how to read and write.[/quote] Because DCPS is focused on testing ONLY not teaching. After the tests are over then teachers have tons of paperwork to submit to ensure they get to come back to do it all over again the next year. If you could see the mountain of paperwork that is required of teachers in additional to their day to day tasks then you would understand why a longer school day is counterproductive. The half days are for "data" or so teachers can submit the mountains of paperwork they have collected. The PD days are for the initiatives the are proposed and then abandoned the next year. [/quote]

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