Comments on: Wallace Foundation Report: Longer Days Mean Better Schools http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/wallace-foundation-report-longer-days-mean-better-schools/ Education News Wed, 22 May 2013 01:17:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: wintertime http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/wallace-foundation-report-longer-days-mean-better-schools/#comment-2220 wintertime Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:58:10 +0000 http://www.educationnews.org/?p=204422#comment-2220 My homeschoolers rarely spent more than 2 hours in formal study. In the early grades ( 1st and 2nd) it was about 30 minutes. So?....Why can't teachers get the work done in 6 hours? Gee! I have an idea! Why not have union teachers in the delivery rooms. They could then snatch the newborns from the mom's arms and raise the infants in unionized baby factories. They could return the children to the parents at age 18. ( sarcasm) My kids were in college at age 13, 12, and 13. All finished all general requirements and Calculus III by the age of 15. Two earned B.S. degrees in mathematics by the age of 18. The oldest was equally successful in his interests and will finish a masters in accounting in a few weeks. Imagine that! Thirty minutes in the early grades and never more more than 2 hours a day until they reached college level. Yet...No "educator" has ever contacted our family to ask about our methods. This is true even though the children were in the local paper and once has a full page article in the university newspaper. Not much professional curiosity among "educators", I suppose. ( no sarcasm) My homeschoolers rarely spent more than 2 hours in formal study. In the early grades ( 1st and 2nd) it was about 30 minutes. So?….Why can’t teachers get the work done in 6 hours?

Gee! I have an idea! Why not have union teachers in the delivery rooms. They could then snatch the newborns from the mom’s arms and raise the infants in unionized baby factories. They could return the children to the parents at age 18. ( sarcasm)

My kids were in college at age 13, 12, and 13. All finished all general requirements and Calculus III by the age of 15. Two earned B.S. degrees in mathematics by the age of 18. The oldest was equally successful in his interests and will finish a masters in accounting in a few weeks. Imagine that! Thirty minutes in the early grades and never more more than 2 hours a day until they reached college level.

Yet…No “educator” has ever contacted our family to ask about our methods. This is true even though the children were in the local paper and once has a full page article in the university newspaper. Not much professional curiosity among “educators”, I suppose. ( no sarcasm)

]]> By: Doug http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/wallace-foundation-report-longer-days-mean-better-schools/#comment-2211 Doug Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:14:17 +0000 http://www.educationnews.org/?p=204422#comment-2211 Canada is slowly moving towards the downward extension of the school system to 2 year olds in order to get more years/days/hour in school. This is the way to have more. Canada is slowly moving towards the downward extension of the school system to 2 year olds in order to get more years/days/hour in school. This is the way to have more.

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