Steve Jobs To Obama: You're A One-Term President

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HappySqurriel said:

Kasz216 said:
Also, schooling till 6 is a bit much, but an 11 month system would work better. Really the education gap grows largest during summer break, and NOT during school.

The reason is, some kids (Mostly poor) spend all summer in front of a TV. While other kids (mostly rich) are in programs to learn over the summer or go to museums or have summer reading lists.

In general when you have a poor kid with a reading program and a rich kid who doesn't have any summer learning, the poor kid outperforms.

Running classes until 6:00 would probably be excessive, but having schools open until 6:00pm with teachers being available to give students help with homework would make a huge difference to a lot of students.

Good luck getting teachers to work longer hours and longer school years for the same pay they're currently getting, and good luck getting the unions to go along with that.  Our taxes would skyrocket so high from the demands of increased pay and extra benefits and compensation that all the millionaires and billionaires in the country wouldn't be able to cover them!