Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Warning. School calendar. Bureaucrats in charge. � Fred Klonsky's blog

Warning. School calendar. Bureaucrats in charge. � Fred Klonsky's blog

Warning. School calendar. Bureaucrats in charge.

For many teachers and students in urban school districts this is the first day back. They join millions of other students and teachers who have been in classrooms for two weeks or more.

There are few things as goofy as the school calendar.

This year Chicago’s public schools began a program of so-called (Same number of days, just reconfigured) year-round schools. It has been brutal for working parents trying to coordinate childcare in a world of summers