Anyone Live Outside The Area?

Then maybe he can tell you how to spell "definitely" and remind you that the phrase is "better than" instead of "better then". :lol: Don't worry ...I'm not laughing with you, I'm laughing at you. Sorry Pepper, I couldn't resist. :lol:

It was only about 10 years ago that transplants gasped and turned their noses up at the thoughts of sending their kids to the "backwards" Johnston Co. schools. Now they're heading this way. What are we doing wrong?

 

Josey said: It was only about 10 years ago that transplants gasped and turned their noses up at the thoughts of sending their kids to the "backwards" Johnston Co. schools. Now they're heading this way. What are we doing wrong?





rofl:lol:

 

What's wrong with year round schools?

 

maybe I just don't understand the whole concept of year round schools, it just seems to me that you are in school longer but don't graduate any sooner, I just wonder what the point is.

 

I don't know all that much about year round schools either. Just seems to be a lot of people against it.

 

From what I gather about year round schools and why so many people are against it is that it does away with the long summer vacation for the kids which is when parents usually plan their family vacations. While they seem to be missing the obvious point that by having school year round the kids are out for several weeks at a time at differnt times through out the year which in my eyes should open up larger opportunities for varing vacation plans.

For example instead of making plans to spend your week each summer at the time share at the beach and the rest summer for what ever. You could spend a week in the mountains during the fall while the colors are changing, perhaps a week in Florida during the winter while it's cool here and warm there, that kinda of trips. Family vacations could spread out over the entire year without the child having to miss school to make it happen.

Not to mention that I personally see it as a better way to educate a child as they are constantly learning year round instead of spending 3 months during the summer being a vegitable, losing their study habits and skills. The learning stays fresh in the minds in a year round program.

Craig

 

Since 8th grade, my daughter has been on what's called "Modified" year-round calendar, and we love it. Her school year ends when traditional calendars do...end of May. But her school year begins again in July. She goes to school for 9 weeks, then has 2 weeks off, and this repeats throughout her school year.

 

Craig: I hope there is more to it than that.

 

In probably 90% of the interveiws and reports I've seen of parents who are against the year round school that is always the first comment out of their mouth.



Craig

 

Year round school can make it very difficult for families if all the children are not on the same schedule. They do need to make sure all the kids in a family are on the same schedule, and I think that could be done fairly simply. With a year-round schedule, three-fourths of the school population is in school at any one time, with the other one-fourth on vacation. So a school that could accommodate 300 students all on the same schedule would increase its capacity by 33% to 400 students just by changing to a year-round schedule. That seems a lot less expensive than building new schools.

 

well put...

 

While i don't have kids in the situation, my concern would be for childcare with an on again/off again schedule. There are quite a few teachers who make extra money during the summer months keeping children and a lot of parents who depend on them to do so. Where would year round school leave folks in that position?

 

We're trying to plan a once-in-a-lifetime trip to go along with our recital theme and the year-round schools are killing it. We've had to go ahead and set the trip/dates, etc, so we can reserve the airfare & hotel & sight-seeing & lessons, etc, etc. The kids that truly, truly want to go and who would get a lot out of the trip can't go because they'll be tracked in. There's no way to schedule anything when everyone is off because the year-rounders are not all on the same track.

It very frustrating. I hate that these kids will miss such an awesome learning experience (which will be extreme fun to boot).


Frogger

 

There is also the issue of having different kids going to different schools. How do parents support the school, when they have two different schools to support? Being a PTA parent is difficult enough when it comes to finding time and resources to help. Imagine having 2 to support. Also, how can families support school activities. Which Friday night football game does the family attend?

Wake Co. has shown no desire what-so-ever to work with parents. In fact, they are willing to use taxpayer money to defend lawsuits rather than offer the simplest of compromises.

You have situations such as the Bailey family in Apex. They have 2 daughters in high school and each was assigned to 2 different schools. They went through all the channels and still the Wake co. school system refused to assign the sisters to the same high school. The parents sued...and LOST!!! The judge said the parents have no say in where their children attend school.

Also, there was the situation where the autistic boy's doctor advised (and testified in court) that the boy would be best served attending year-round school because the schedule would provide the best environment to match his learning abilities since it did not have the long summer break. Instead of seeing this as a special medical situation and allowing the child to attend, Wake co assigned him to a school with a traditional calendar. The parents could get no one in the school system to agree to have the child attend that school, and instead the parents had to sue. They lost the suit....same reason as above: Parents don't get a say in where their child attends.

 

It seems you left in quite a hurry. The place you left has been trashed. Are you planning on coming back to clean up?

 

Chapel Hill maybe?

I live in Chapel Hill right now and commute to work in the 4042 area. I'll be moving out here when my fiance finishes school at UNC. I grew up outside of Chapel Hill in rural orange county so I can't speak from personal experience about Chapel Hill/Carrboro city schools. From everything I've heard and been told they are top notch. The only draw back I can see is that there are a lot of VERY rich kids out there and there is a definate class seperation amongst the kids.

I have many CH/C school employees that are cusotmers in my father's auto shop in Chapel Hill, they always speak about 16 yr old kids driving 80K cars to school. If you can see beyond that insanity and look at the purely academic side of it, I think you'd be in pretty good company.

(I'm probably making unfair characterizations of "rich kids" because I never was one...take all advice from me with a grain of salt.)

Mike