Win the Future! Teach Your Children . . . Less
School districts all over the country are reducing school days, firing teachers, eliminating summer school, closing libraries, and eliminating “non-essential” programs. It’s not because the country is “broke” but because this wealthy country has chosen to do this. I don’t think this is how you even get to the future, let alone “win” it. From the New York Times:
After several years of state and local budget cuts, thousands of school districts across the nation are gutting summer-school programs, cramming classes into four-day weeks or lopping days off the school year, even though virtually everyone involved in education agrees that American students need more instruction time.
Los Angeles slashed its budget for summer classes to $3 million from $18 million last year, while Philadelphia, Milwaukee and half the school districts in North Carolina have deeply cut their
