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Originally Posted by Slava
I think they should push back the start for junior and senior high because I do think that extra sleep would help those kids. But, I feel really bad for parents of young kids with this change. It's just such a mess. I think a better solution would be to extent classes the other 4 days, and maybe add a week of teaching and have every Friday off.
The school schedule is just a mess though. The number of non-instruction days compared to when I was in school is surprising. Back then teachers were concerned that they didn't have time to get through the curriculum, so I can't imagine it's doable now?
And then you have this "dead time" as the holidays approach and summer break where basically nothing gets done. And exam weeks for senior high that eat into classroom time as well. It seems like we had more days in school than what we see now.
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It’s rare to have two Fridays in a row where the kids go to school. That certainly wasn’t the case when I was a student. So something has changed.
A couple of my daughter’s high school final exams are scheduled during class time for other courses this year. So she’s going to have to miss those classes to writer her finals. She also has had to take one of her options over the lunch hour this semester because the class was oversubscribed. Which means she has missed a bunch of clubs and lunch hour activities.
There seem to be forces at play in making school schedules more challenging and complicated than they were the past. I’d be curious to learn what exactly those forces are.