BeachBumDeac
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Don't confuse reality with the net.
You are just flat out wrong. What you think is reality is the opposite of reality.
Don't confuse reality with the net.
Don't confuse reality with the net.
there are a lot of different kinds of "special needs". a kid with ADD or a learning disability is one thing. A severely autistic or disabled kid who needs one to one care is another. The public schools have to provide that one to one care, private charters will not. Drives up the per pupil cost significantly, especially in urban districts. parents with severely disabled kids will very often move to urban districts to get into those systems.
Gotta bring in that harvest!
lolwut? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_learning_loss
You're right about one thing, summer vacation is not a mistake. it's a direct result of agrarian societies needing child labor on farms, which has never caught up to the industrial age, much less the post-industrial knowledge economy. nobody seriously questions that kids would be better off educationally without long summer breaks. Middle class and upper class parents know this intuitively, and they have their kids in high-quality learning experiences all summer because they can afford it. The main opposition here are the industries that profit off summer break (camps, tourism, etc.).
we're talking about 2014 and the applicability of 19th century policies - wtf are you talking about?
summer vacations for schools are a lot older than the 19th century
City school officials began listening to reformers around the turn of the century. Gradually, they shortened the school year by about 60 days and eliminated the summer quarter. Reformers could have instituted a long break in winter, or spring, but they picked summer for three main reasons. 1) Poorly ventilated school buildings were nearly unbearable during heat waves. 2) Community leaders fretted that hot, crowded environments facilitated the spread of disease. 3) Wealthy urbanites traditionally vacationed during the hottest months, and middle-class school administrators were following in their footsteps.
Meanwhile, the school districts outside cities had quite different academic calendars. In the 19th century, rural kids spent just five or six months in school—two to three months in summer and the same in winter—and the rest of the year laboring on farms. So while urban educators worried that children were overtaxed by their busy schedule, officials in rural areas thought their students were mentally undertaxed. By the early 20th century, public-school officials in many farm states had lengthened the academic year and introduced a summer break to bring agrarian districts into line with urban ones.
That time in the fields is what helps them remember the algebra better. Duh.
Captain, you can't be serious. Because a general article in Wikipedia on education and the Enlightenment did not mention summer breaks, or vacations, in schooling you have come to the conclusion that there were none?
Fact is, during the Middle Ages, the Early Modern period and into modern times schools and universities in Western Civilization did have extended summer vacations.
Fact is, during the Middle Ages, the Early Modern period and into modern times schools and universities in Western Civilization did have extended summer vacations.