| Show Is There in The Present School Year IS THE SCHOOL YEAR TOO Isn't It reasonable that the longer the year the more the children would Why don't we work it like where students attend school over days out of the THESE ARE QUESTIONS YOU MAY be asking school personnel when you visit during American Education These may be among their THE AMERICAN SCHOOL YEAR may be too In some areas are the school which averages days in most of the THERE'S SOME QUESTION OF whether European children really go to school as long as the figures In some European for where the school year la listed at over the children take off early in the yet are credited with a at AFTER-SCHOOL AND education programs substantially add to the school year in many American In the summer program has become overwhelmingly popular in some areas of the United THE SCHOOL YEAR IN THE United States started out with wide In the early when life was largely youngsters living in the country usually went to school only during the winter The rest of the they were needed to help on the But in the schools were being conducted just about all year the country schools lengthened their school year and the cities shortened SINCE MOST OF TIIE nation has been operated on the basis of a nine-month school THE LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD in North lias added nine days to the school Arizona has added six days for high school Arizona has added eight and Nebraska have each added ten Montgomery and D. have added four BUT MORE AND MORE SCHOOLS are going right on through the Students may attend summer classes for remedial or they may take courses in the summer that they find time to work into their schedule during the SOME FOR take art or music courses for the fun of it during the Others take additional science or math courses to meet the requirements advanced courses they can only take during the formal school OF SUMMER SESSIONS aren't free either for the school board many for the When schools are used in the the maintenance costs go teachers' salaries have to be And in some school tuition is charged summer school students to partially recover the SOME PEOPLE HAVE EVEN advocated putting the public schools on a year-round This would not only save say by utilizing the schools during a time when they're normally sitting but would save because a student could finish school in nine school years instead of SCHOOLS WERE OPERATED ON AN eleven-month basis in New starting in but after nineteen years the plan was as it was in Tennessee after eight Critics in both cities said operating the schools for two additional months was too they students graduating after nine years instead of were too young to go to work and not old enough to go to THE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS generally favor lengthening the school year In United In a 1958 per cent of the superintendents favored extending the school Another thirty-three per mostly from rural opposed any BUT IN A 1961 GALLUP per cent of the parents and sixty-four per cent of the high school students queried opposed extending the school |
