What Would You Do With a Longer School Day?
I don’t know about you, but this is how I feel at the end of each day with my students, (see pic above), and that’s with a group that’s not too difficult!
And now, they’re thinking of extending the school day? Well, I feel two ways about this, it depends on why they want to extend the school day. If they want to extend the day to fit in more test prep for more standardized testing, I shout a resounding “No!”. If they are extending the day to fit in more meaningless, unproductive PD, then my vote is “Nay!”. If the day is longer, so that our students are held captive by another boring lecture, or another
