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Griffin said:

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.

Keeping classes open to 6 won't change anything.  Schools as a whole are ineffective and 50% of the teachers should be fired just as a start.  Schools receive money based on kid performance and all it changed was lowering the test level so dumb kids could pass.  Each school and teacher for the most part teach their class so different, just being in one class from another destroys the education of our children. 

Having a bad teacher could place each child 6months back, by the time they make it to highschool half the kids can't even read or write at grade 7 levels.  

I was working under the assumption of having competent teachers.

A few months ago I was reading an article which suggested that one of the biggest advantages middle class and wealthy children had was parents who could help them with their homework. After all, an engineer or nurse are much better able to teach basic math to their children than someone who dropped out of highschool in grade 10 due to poor performance.

While the school shouldn't neccessarily force all students to stay after-hours for help, the extra hours provides the opportunity to deal with struggling students; and possibly address learning disabilities.