CPR:
[…] Union concerns about the ill effects of too much schooling on students’ and teachers’ health led to eliminating summer terms and setting a standardized statewide 180-day school year in the 1950s. The California Legislature cut the public school year calendar to 175 days in 2008. The change was described by unions as an effort to reduce environmental damage by reducing transportation, heating and cooling, and food service costs.
But with California public schools’ National Assessment of Educational Progress standardized test scores for 4th- and 8th-grade student math and reading scores plunging to the bottom fifth of U.S. states, the 180-day school year was reestablished in 2015.
I look at it as lessening the leftist indoctrinational daily curriculum by 30 minutes.
I’m a glass-half-full kind of guy. 😉
When you teach only the socialist left’s version of history and the new social engineering, it doesn’t take as long.
Math and Science will be taught as secondary subjects and less important. You don’t need math and science to fill our forms for EBT and other “free” government subsidies.
Another brilliant idea by leftists guaranteed to stop parents from getting to work on time.
@Tiger Eyes August 16, 2017 at 12:30 pm
What loyal citizen has to “get to work on time”? Perhaps you should audit with you Block Warden?
So now they’re going to have to buy a couple hundred thousand more school busses so everyone gets to school at exactly the same time. Got it. What was wrong with having start times coordinated with bus availability? Oh, and guess how many dues paying school bus drivers they’re going to have to hire.
@ judgeroybean:
“Oh, and guess how many dues paying school bus drivers they’re going to have to hire.”
Good thing illegals can get a driver’s license in CA.