President Obaba suggest more school time

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ph4nt said:

The problem does not lie with the time spent at school, the problem lies with how that time is utilized.

Anyone who went through the grade system knows, there are several days where you do absolutely nothing of real importance, or several useless projects. If they devoted their 7 hours a day into meaningful teaching, we could probably cut back on school time.

 

Edit: I took several AP classes, and in each one the teacher used time so efficiently, that we were completely done with all the course material 3 months before school ended and just spent time preparing for the AP test, once that was over it was 6 weeks of fun, games, and movies.

As a lifetime homeschooler (never saw a public classroom outside of SATs), I can attest to this being the case. It's not the quantity, but the quality. My school day was about 4hrs long of class time, with very little homework. The difference was that I studied 100% of that time, and it was instilled that learning happened inside and outside the classroom. My teacher never graduated from college, and taught from similar texts that schools use.

Ultimately (as I've stated before), schooling is a multi-headed beast. There's no one simple fix, really. Yes, classroom time is not utilized perfectly, but the pupils aren't usually attentive either, and that doesn't rectify teachers not teaching from passion or drive, but from lifeless material.