Ending summer vacation and overhauling high school entrance tests: The leading Democratic mayoral candidates’ education (New York: spring break, daycare)
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With over 1,800 schools and more than 1.1 million students, the city’s public school system is one of the most direct ways city government touches the lives of New Yorkers — and overseeing it will soon be the job of a new mayor.
He or she will have a lot to grapple with — from helping students get back on track and into classrooms after the coronavirus pandemic, to tackling admissions processes that critics say keep classrooms segregated.
And on some big issues, there are big differences between the candidates...
No one is floating my boat. Year-round school, and school on the weekend is a pipe dream. Parents won't go for it unions will never approve it. How and when are parents supposed to go on vacation? Get permission from the city to take their kids out of school?
I didn't kill myself working my ass off to buy a house in an area that has some of the best schools in the city only not to be guaranteed seating for my kids. To those who couldn't afford to do so, have the city and state work on the issues in YOUR neighborhood and ask yourselves why are things the way they are where I live and what did I do to make these issues worse.
No one is floating my boat. Year-round school, and school on the weekend is a pipe dream. Parents won't go for it unions will never approve it. How and when are parents supposed to go on vacation? Get permission from the city to take their kids out of school?
I didn't kill myself working my ass off to buy a house in an area that has some of the best schools in the city only not to be guaranteed seating for my kids. To those who couldn't afford to do so, have the city and state work on the issues in YOUR neighborhood and ask yourselves why are things the way they are where I live and what did I do to make these issues worse.
Even if school was year-round, there would still be well over a month of breaks from school that students would have between winter break, spring break, Thanksgiving break, etc. Plenty of time to vacation as a family.
That said, I don't support the proposal mainly because I don't see the need for it. Unless you actually change how we teach and break the unions, all extending the school year will do give parents a free daycare option.
Even if school was year-round, there would still be well over a month of breaks from school that students would have between winter break, spring break, Thanksgiving break, etc. Plenty of time to vacation as a family.
That said, I don't support the proposal mainly because I don't see the need for it. Unless you actually change how we teach and break the unions, all extending the school year will do give parents a free daycare option.
Yes. There is plenty of vacation time. You're behaving as if summer vacation is the only time that students would have off under such a situation. That is false. It's one thing if you still are against my points because you want to vacation at a particular time of the year, but your earlier question of "how and when are parents supposed to go on vacation?" is an odd one due to what I wrote about more than a month of vacation time already being built into the school year as is. That ain't going to change.
Please god, let this pass! It would most likely lead to my ex moving as well. Then I'd never have to go to NYC ever again!!! Guys, please vote for whoever plans to end summer vacation.
(Granted the Catholic schools might ignore this, but it's still worth a shot!)
Would love to see the teachers have to work in the summer
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