Lengthen School Year

Lengthen the School Year
Call it a last-minute clarification or a June surprise, another piece of bad news: A trailer bill that the Legislature will vote on Wednesday permits districts to slash the school year by an additional three weeks for the next two years, if voters reject Gov. Brown’s tax increase in November. That’s twice what Gov. Jerry Brown seemed to suggest in the May budget revise when he proposed the elimination of 15 days divided over a two-year period. Instead, the Legislature is prepared to authorize a 160-day year, likely the lowest in the nation and far behind other advanced nations; nearly all states have a 180-day year, which California also required before 2010. “There has been a lot of argument about whether we should
Others believe that if the school day or year is increased, extra syllabus can be covered and give the opportunity for more knowledge. According to President Obama, kids should attend school even in the summer to increase their potential learning.” (#3) “Extending the school day is a hot topic for educational policy making bodies. The driving force behind the proposal to lengthen the school day is the assertion that more instructional time would yield greater academic gains. Some research indicates there may be slight academic benefits to extending the school day. However, the slight benefits must be weighed by the potential costs, which may include expenses incurred by the school system, the disruption of afternoon extracurricular activities, and the consideration that an extended day might not be a good idea for all grade levels.” (#5) The school year should be lengthened, because it helps kids learn more about their materials, keeps them out of trouble, gives them the availability of more instructional time, helps them compete with other countries, and it also pays teachers more. As you can see lengthening the school year proves to be extremely convenient and beneficial to
If kids are to attend more days of school during the year they will have less time to get in trouble or do dumb things. Students are more likely to avoid drugs, booze, fights in schools that perform well academically, study finds on “Saturday, April 9 (HealthDay News) -- Students who go to schools that achieve better-than-expected academic results may be less likely to use drugs or alcohol, steal or fight, finds a new study. University of Florida researchers looked at academic achievement scores at 61 inner-city middle schools in Chicago between 2002 and 2005. Seven schools did better than expected and the rates of drug and alcohol use and delinquency by students at those schools were as much as 25 percent lower compared to other schools. The study was published in the March issue of the journal Prevention Science. The schools in the study all had high numbers of students from ethnic minorities and poor homes, factors that are often associated with lower achievement in school, noted lead author Amy Tobler, a research assistant professor of health outcomes and policy at the University of Florida College of Medicine.”(#6) "It could be good teaching, better administration, whatever these schools are doing, if we can replicate it, it will lead to not only academic achievement but improvement in healthy behaviors as well," she said in a university news release. "Some schools can