4 Day School Week

[cebdark]

Originally Posted by hnsq

Personally, I think job creation will follow education. If students are educated to the point where they can start companies and create jobs, the jobs will exist. If they leave school uneducated and unable to think critically and create opportunities, then jobs will continue to be elusive.

Yes, I agree that education is extremely important, and I see your point, but there are many other reasons why jobs are being outsourced besides a lack of education IMO. Technology replacing workers, profit margins, poorly thought out regulatory laws...the list goes on and on.

I try to support local businesses wherever possible, but to me, regardless of how many people we educate, there will still be those who are great workers, but lack the motivation and/or capability of starting up companies. They may be great at building something, but they may not be good at attending classes.

That's a purely "human nature" thing that we have to work realistically with to me. I always hope along with many others that anyone can do anything that they want (and many can) but I also know that there will always those who will need to work for someone.

[Cav Scout wife]

Originally Posted by wyolady

Where does your DD go to school? I teach in a WY and our kids currently go to school from 8:00 - 3:30pm with a 25 minute lunch, 5 days a week for 187 days a year, going back the 3rd wk of Aug and getting out the end of the 1st wk in June. And we BARELY meet the time our state requires our kids be in school for a year. If we have any snow days, those are tacked onto the end of the year.

Kentucky.

State reqs are 177 days of instruction, which are min 6hrs long. The equivalent of 1062 instructional hours.