Another Good Reason For Year Round Schooling

[youngterrier]

I'm all for free lunches for school children. It's one thing to be against free handouts for adults who are expected to work, but it is different for school children who don't work and should be getting free handouts from their parents.

I do agree that some who receive free lunch do not need that privilege. I am not considered "ghetto" or poor but my parents don't have the money to get me a car and I pay for full lunch whereas the "ghetto" people drive SUVs w/tented windows, rims, and a "pimped out"engine (another thread for another time but we children don't understand that we don't NEED that stuff) everyday to school and get free lunch (More than 50% of SC students receive free or reduced lunch).

[UNHWildCats]

Most "year-round schooling" still has the same number of schooldays as the traditional schedule.
It is just that instead of one long summer vacation, they divide it up into a number of smaller breaks.

most of the USA is around 180 days give or take.

Japan is 243
Brazil 200
Phillipines (law mandates atleast 200 days)
South Africa 200
Australia 200
Iran 200

I heard several times South Korea is over 200 days though I* cant find an exact number. Many countries have about 20 days more then a average US State which take off weekend days is about an extra month of schooling.

[youngterrier]

year round schooling should be a state decision

[kalm]

I'm all for free lunches for school children. It's one thing to be against free handouts for adults who are expected to work, but it is different for school children who don't work and should be getting free handouts from their parents.

I do agree that some who receive free lunch do not need that privilege. I am not considered "ghetto" or poor but my parents don't have the money to get me a car and I pay for full lunch whereas the "ghetto" people drive SUVs w/tented windows, rims, and a "pimped out"engine (another thread for another time but we children don't understand that we don't NEED that stuff) everyday to school and get free lunch (More than 50% of SC students receive free or reduced lunch).

They're smart, they're the capitalists selling drugs tax free.

50% of students recieve lunch assistance?

What's the national average?

[youngterrier]

I'm all for free lunches for school children. It's one thing to be against free handouts for adults who are expected to work, but it is different for school children who don't work and should be getting free handouts from their parents.

I do agree that some who receive free lunch do not need that privilege. I am not considered "ghetto" or poor but my parents don't have the money to get me a car and I pay for full lunch whereas the "ghetto" people drive SUVs w/tented windows, rims, and a "pimped out"engine (another thread for another time but we children don't understand that we don't NEED that stuff) everyday to school and get free lunch (More than 50% of SC students receive free or reduced lunch).

They're smart, they're the capitalists selling drugs tax free.

50% of students recieve lunch assistance?

What's the national average?

It may be more than that, I don't have the numbers in front of me but I picked 50% because I thought it was higher but I knew it was at least that much.

No they BUY their drugs tax free

[UNHWildCats]

I'm all for free lunches for school children. It's one thing to be against free handouts for adults who are expected to work, but it is different for school children who don't work and should be getting free handouts from their parents.

I do agree that some who receive free lunch do not need that privilege. I am not considered "ghetto" or poor but my parents don't have the money to get me a car and I pay for full lunch whereas the "ghetto" people drive SUVs w/tented windows, rims, and a "pimped out"engine (another thread for another time but we children don't understand that we don't NEED that stuff) everyday to school and get free lunch (More than 50% of SC students receive free or reduced lunch).

They're smart, they're the capitalists selling drugs tax free.

50% of students recieve lunch assistance?

What's the national average?

Currently 26 million kids receive either free or reduced school lunches each day.

[UNHWildCats]

Any child at a participating school may purchase a meal through the National School Lunch Program. Children from families with incomes at or below 130 percent of the poverty level (currently $21,710 for a family of four) are eligible for free meals. Those between 130 percent and 185 percent of the poverty level (currently $30,895 for a family of four) are eligible for reduced-price meals, for which students can be charged no more than 40 cents.

Children from families with incomes over 185 percent of poverty pay a full price, though their meals are still subsidized to some extent. Local school food authorities set their own prices for full-price meals.

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

year round schooling should be a PARENTS decision

FIFY

[youngterrier]

year round schooling should be a PARENTS decision

FIFY

I'm just talking from a legislative perspective, schooling shouldn't be Federal

[YoUDeeMan]

Some folks are just too funny. Are you all a bunch of dim wits for having gone to school with summers off? Well, maybe some of you blame your dim witticy (yeah, I made that up ) on the fact that you had summers off, but the rest of us know that anyone who thinks that way is doomed anyway.

Year round schools or more days in school will not do anthing to improve education...it would simply mean that the drop out flunkies would miss more days of school.

Stop the lunacy that everyone is equal. Teachers spend far too much time writing up disciplinary issues or IEPs instead of teaching. Put the problem kids into a separate school system and allow the good students to have a classroom environment where they can succeed.

[JohnStOnge]

Government should not be involved in trying to enusre that people, including children, have enough to eat.

Otherwise, I'm glad that both me and my children are done with school so we don't have to worry about people who want to make kids go to school year round when that's not necessary.

[JohnStOnge]

The reason I'm writing this is that I accidentally hit "quote" on my own post and don't know how to delete a post once I make it. Surely there must be a way to delete a post. So how do you do it?

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

First, if these people would take advantage of the opportunities offered and educate themselves, that way they would make themselves more attractive to their employer or prospective employers and maybe they will gain the privilege to be paid a higher wage.

Secondly, If they can't afford to feed children, maybe they shouldn't be breeding. Just saying....

I don't disagree. Especially when you consider Microsoft and other companies a few years back lobbying for an increase in work visa's due to a growing demand in the college educated job market that evidently wasn't being met domestically. Of course it's tough to get a kid thinking about college when his belly's empty and when a college education is unaffordable.

Actually I would think that might be the best time to get them thinking about it.

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

The reason I'm writing this is that I accidentally hit "quote" on my own post and don't know how to delete a post once I make it. Surely there must be a way to delete a post. So how do you do it?

There should be an "X" up right in the area that you hit the quote button. That will delete it.

[kalm]

I don't disagree. Especially when you consider Microsoft and other companies a few years back lobbying for an increase in work visa's due to a growing demand in the college educated job market that evidently wasn't being met domestically. Of course it's tough to get a kid thinking about college when his belly's empty and when a college education is unaffordable.

Actually I would think that might be the best time to get them thinking about it.

"Them belly full, but they hungry"

[CID1990]

I could get on board with a year-long school year if the following conditions could be met:

1. Reduce AFDC benefits by 1/3. After all, that's 1/3 of all meals that the parents do not need to provide. The other 2/3rds should be sufficient to purchase 2 meals a day and still get basic cable and the occasional trip to Nails B Us.

2. Get rid of the Dept. of Education.

3. Fix the ADA. Being a little undisciplined a$$hole in the 5th grade and hijacking your whole class because your teacher cannot teach while you act out is not a disability. The ADA was meant to make things fair for people with real disabilities like paralysis. Not having your a$$ whipped enough by your absentee baby daddy is not a fvcking disability, it is just unfortunate. Fix the ADA and then kick all those little cocksuckers out of skool.