Tablifying EducationFollow

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Actually, in this school, they have PE every day. And I used to think gym once a week sucked...

Let me preface this by saying I know nothing at all about your son's (sons'?) school.

That said, it sounds like a nightmarishly bad mishmash of failed charter school ideas that can still apparently be sold in some places in the country. Let's see what other public education turds would I throw into the "look, it's different!" pie if I wanted to lure parents? Let's see...I'd say full time one subject scheduling, but where you stated there is PE every day it can't be that. It must be the other idiot education solution of the moment, longer school days. Do I win?

The day care providers would schedule around that, locally anyway. The invisible hand would beat them up and take their money if they didn't.

Is that really any different than now?

My high school was the opposite of one subject at a time - we had fourteen 25 minute periods during the day, with a 5 minute buffer in between. Academic subjects were usually two periods long (with the five minutes rolled in to make 55 minutes), with the exception of smaller electives. Low level arts classes were usually one period long each semester - aerobic dance, Art I, bell choir, etc. High level arts were one hours (concert choir, Ballet VI, Studio Art II.) This allowed for the younger students to get more exposure to the arts classes before settling on one skill area. (Everyone had to go through at least one of each of the level one classes at some point - a dance, a music, a visual arts, a writing, and a drama/theater.) Lunch was a 30 minute period in place of one of the electives, but was voluntary due to space constraints and most kids opted to just eat a sandwich in history class instead.

I feel sorry for the staff who had to schedule all that junk.

Edited, May 2nd 2013 2:45pm by Catwho

Chapter orders aren't about to rearrange themselves, you know.

I'm guessing baby teething.

Bad set of dentures?

I see you were never taught the basic concepts of irony in school...

The education secretary's office, for example.

Same in Britain. Lets 'em feel like real revolutionaries.

I'm curious what you think would be an ideal education system then.

Ideal? Who cares? Large teams of master instructors tutoring one pupil, probably? If you mean "not ******," then a focus on developing critical thinking skills placed much more highly than it is currently. I realize this would destroy your political party as critical thinking is a big problem for you guys, but it's still the most valuable skill student's learn. I don't really care if a 9 year old doesn't know who the President is, I do care if they don't know how to find out.

Hell, my son is five and can Google. Might as well not bother sending him to school, eh?