KMBC: "Kansas City School District Superintendent John Covington -- like President Barack Obama -- supports a longer school day and school year."
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Absolutely.
ReplyDeleteGo Mr. C.!!
I know young kids in my neighborhood that go to school on saturdays, all volunteer for math and science in kcmosd. What a great idea. Good luck kids and thank you to the teachers that make themselves available.
ReplyDeleteCovington states that a "longer school day/year requires a tremendous amount of money to pay teachers, principals, janitors, bus drivers, everybody for at least another four weeks of work."
ReplyDeleteHe needs to come up with another excuse. Principals, secretaries, security and janitors are already on a 12-month work calendar; bus drivers aren't even paid by the district.
Bus drivers are ultimately paid by the district, aren't they?
ReplyDeleteMaybe ghetto schools should split their day, and force them back from dark until 2am... where most of them get into trouble.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't KCMO have a curfew? Wish KCPD would haul the miscreants downtown to a holding center and leave them there until their pts come get them.
Someone who volunteers to coach minority youth baseball told me the other day that most of KCMO's community center gymnasiums aren't being used or on short hours because there's no one to staff them.
Wonder if ALonzo would would swallow his pride and go down to don Bosco two nights a week to keep the gym open! And minister to THEM instead of us bloggers!
A longer school day, year, Saturday school, etc. does nothing but harness the problems for a longer period of time. This still does not address a cure to many of the real problems in inner city schools and the neighborhoods that these kids are raised in. Teachers are and easy scapegoat. Parents need to act like adults and do their job and politicians need to fund school appropriately and expect common sense results from these cesspool environments.
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