Education / Teaching thread

Get in the Carr said

I have been with my kid at his pre
school for just an hour and it made me appreciate teachers even more which was already at high level of appreciation. Teachers should be paid more especially at the public school level. However, the school breaks and summer need to be shorter. Many people equate teacher pay to all of the days off they get. Maybe we should think outside the box and not have a break in education?

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There are quite a few districts in Mississippi experimenting with this concept. Most learning loss occurs over the summer break, presumably because it’s such a long time without classes.

To combat this, in our district for the first time this year, the summer break will be reduced from 9 weeks to 6. However, at the end of each 9 weeks, there’s now an extended break that can be used either for remediation on one of the weeks, or just a longer break. So now, there’s a 2 week fall break, 2.5 week Christmas break, and 2 week spring break.

Teachers and students are still going to school the same number of days, but the breaks are more evenly spaced.

We think it will be great for teacher and student morale, and reduce summe learning loss.