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How would a longer school day or longer school year affect your family?
President Obama wants kids to spend more time in class. How would a longer school day or longer school year affect your family or families in general?
MELINDA GLOVKA, Kettering: It would be a good thing, particularly for kindergarten, which could stand to be more than half a day. I believe the Gov. (Ted) Strickland will be making kindergarten a full day in the future. But I think they’re asking kids to learn too much in a short time. With longer days and school years, they could spread it out more, and the children wouldn’t feel so stressed.
FAYE WOJTCZAK, Kettering: I think a longer school year is better. Eight hours is enough for one day, but I don’t think the summer break should be as long as it is now.
RAYMOND ALVAREZ, Miami, Fla. (working at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base): The U.S. has fallen critically behind other nations as far as math and science are concerned. If you look at the engineering scholarship programs around the nation, you’ll mostly see Asian and Middle Eastern students. I’m a government employee, and we train most of our professional lives just to stay even with our foreign counterparts. Longer school days would allow for some programs that have been cut to be reinstated and allow our students to regain what’s been lost.
ANN KLINGBEIL, Fairborn: I think kids need more time to play. They’re in school long enough already.
CHUCK WILLIAMS, Dayton: We’re going to home school our kids. We don’t trust the public schools anymore.
DONNA J. HEINZ, Xenia: I don’t think classes should be any longer. The kids get too tired and they wouldn’t absorb what they’re being taught. Some of them have to get on the bus really early, and that just makes for a very long day.
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By max
November 3, 2009 2:27 PM | Link to this
The DDN had an article not too long ago that stated American students spend an average of 1.5 hrs MORE per day than their counterparts in Asia. We are not making very good use of the time in the classroom already.
By enough
November 3, 2009 2:57 PM | Link to this
people in favor of this dumb idea just want a longer free baby sitting service. life is too short and I dont much care what the orientals are doing
By Steve
November 3, 2009 7:06 PM | Link to this
The biggest difference between the US and the other countries is how society is - there isn’t the violence, people are more respected, families are more intact - more respect for discipline. Till that happens here, many of our kids won’t be able to compete. It doesn’t have anything to do with our education system.
By angel
November 14, 2009 4:37 AM | Link to this
Thank You Steve. You hit it right on the M-O-N-E-Y!!
By keille
October 2, 2010 5:05 AM | Link to this
Yes I agree on it steve! we don’t need to compete and be competent, life is really too short for that promises, what is more we need is to give importance on how we will teach our kids, the moral and discipline them to become a good citizen of our country,Here is the proof: President Obama wants your kids to say in a school longer The president thinks that teacher accountability needs to be monitored better while extending the school year abit whichhestateda schoolly to his stay-at-home mom and dad audience.