The value of a longer school day should be obvious.
August 29, 2011
From the satirical blog Last Stand For Children:
Even more insulting is that Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis refused to sit on the board to discuss how the extra 90 minutes would be imposed. Is it too much to ask that she provide a little political cover by making it appear that the teachers were consulted? After all, in exchange she would be on the panel giving the teachers in the city just much say in how the extra time would be spent as Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina’s Church or Robin Steans of Advance Illinois.
The value of a longer school day should be obvious. Chicago grammar schools have 946 hours instruction in a year. Houston grammar schools have 1305 hours of instruction per year and New York has 930. Once our students are given that extra time, they will have 4 years more instruction than students in other big cities like New York and Los Angeles by the time they graduate. Only then will Chicago students be able to rise to the level of education juggernauts like the Houston Public Schools.
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I have heard these stats cited before and was told that both Houston and NYC count things like lunch and recess in their totals. In total, NYC is no coherent than Chicago while Houston stil had more instructional time but hardly the four years cited so often