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I miss the system from when I was in school -- start at 7:10am, have 8 classes a day, leave at 2:30pm. No block scheduling, no year-round bullshit, etc... 

5/17/2006 10:19:16 PM

i remember when 25 students in a class was a rarity

but it just exploded at some point...when i was a senior in high school (1995), there were twice as many seniors as freshmen

5/17/2006 10:36:37 PM

twice as many freshmen as seniors?

[Edited on May 17, 2006 at 10:57 PM. Reason : ?]

5/17/2006 10:40:53 PM

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"Sayer: Above is listed a link to a much better write-up of the basic idea which I first stated. It follows the same basic points that I have alraedy listed above."

All the things that I pointed to as problems before were also listed in your link as problems:

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" STUDENT CONSIDERATIONS May limit opportunities for co-curricular and extra activities. It may create scheduling problems for band, chorus, and sports activities. PARENTAL CONSIDERATIONS -Students may not be assigned to desired session. -Site-based decision making procedure may be affected. -Two or more children in one family on different session may be a concern for family life. -Students used for baby-sitting for younger siblings may be affected. -Summer school, graduation and scholarship requirements may need to be addressed. -Different sessions may affect supervision of students/children. -Children's jobs, work day for parents and transportation may be affected. -Scheduling scouting activities may be affected. -High Schools have small volunteer groups - larger/smaller/same? -Community perception of school may be affected. "

I'm going to remember your bullshit, Sayer.

[Edited on May 17, 2006 at 10:57 PM. Reason : sss]

5/17/2006 10:54:50 PM

^^
no, what he said the first time is what he meant. it was like that at my school too, the classes being nearly equal in size instead of the current ever-increasing freshmen classes

the boom must have come some time after 1998...  

5/17/2006 11:24:33 PM

aha no i mistyped

we had twice as many freshmen as seniors

5/17/2006 11:26:32 PM

Okay, so what's the rules on just straight up not allowing any new development in Raleigh?
Is it legal? How would that affect our economy? Would we still get to have cool stores and shit?

What about just requiring developers to give us more money when they build houses and apartments and whatnot?

[Edited on May 17, 2006 at 11:32 PM. Reason : sss]

5/17/2006 11:31:31 PM

^^
haha well damn, I must have just had an odd school

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"BridgetSPK: Okay, so what's the rules on just straight up not allowing any new development in Raleigh? Is it legal? How would that affect our economy? Would we still get to have cool stores and shit?"

It's legal, but it would destroy the economy. Communities need growth, it's the lifeblood of a city's tax base and it's the reason stores locate in areas (why would you move into a city with a shrinking customer base?). That's why so much of the Northeast is utter shit -- but closer to home, just look at the recent history of Wendell to see what happens when growth goes down to -0-

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"BridgetSPK: What about just requiring developers to give us more money when they build houses and apartments and whatnot?"

This would just choke off growth, b/c developers don't pay when they build houses or apartments -- the people buying the houses or apartments pay for it.

If it's that big a deal, the city should just raise property taxes to pay for whatever needs to get paid for; over time growth will take care of itself and the rates can get lowered 

5/18/2006 12:01:36 AM

^Okay, so would I be taking it too far if I referred to the market as a house of cards?

5/18/2006 12:22:04 AM

Block scheduling was awesome and I'm glad that I went to a school that had it. It's so much better to have indepth concentration on four classes a semester instead of half the time on eight classes.

I also think that year round schools are something that I would have liked. Summers are boring and inconvenient when your parents both work the whole time so they have to find someone to watch you. Shorter breaks placed throughout the school year will break up the monotony of attending school day after day with no breaks for months.

5/18/2006 4:03:47 AM

Has anyone brought up the outcry from tourist destinations that swear year-round schedules will destroy their business?

Having not attended a year-round school myself I can't give an educated yay or nay, but my two cents are that the longer kids are in school the more instruction they are hopefully getting. I think everyone is in agreement that compared globally the education system and standard of the US sucks. Maybe this is just one small step we can take to catch up. But then again since we live under a government that thrives off of the existence of ignorance and poverty it is unlikely to have any substantial change.

5/18/2006 7:28:27 AM

^
that's one thing I've never understood. everyone says our education system sucks, but by that standard it's always sucked... and yet we've always been doing pretty well for ourselves (at least when the government stays out of the way)

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"BridgetSPK: ^Okay, so would I be taking it too far if I referred to the market as a house of cards?"

haha no, that's pretty much in the mainstream of modern l3ft-w1ng ideology.

It's fundamentally wrong, but not 'taking it too far' by any stretch

5/18/2006 8:10:45 AM

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"that's one thing I've never understood. everyone says our education system sucks, but by that standard it's always sucked... and yet we've always been doing pretty well for ourselves (at least when the government stays out of the way)"

You are probably right. I haven't seen and no one has posted any numerical evidence to support that our education system is sucktastic compared to the rest of the world. But if we are so good then how come we can't acheive 100% literacy? It's been done in other countries. Is it size? Or just apathy?

In addition to keeping the government out of schools can we add keeping out churches as well?

5/19/2006 12:24:39 AM

I went to year round school from 2nd grade to 8th grade, and it really wasn't that bad.

Sure, our summers were shitty, but virtually empty lines in every major amusement park certainly made the deal pay for itself.

9 weeks of school, 3 weeks of rest.

It's not that bad of a deal, considering our spring semesters are pretty much an endless chunk of schooling.

5/19/2006 12:26:45 AM