{"id":323,"date":"2010-09-06T16:18:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T23:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2010-09-06T19:22:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T02:22:05","slug":"the-elephant-in-the-school-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"The elephant in the school room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most serious failing of our K-12 system is rarely addressed because it would cost money to fix it and we can&#8217;t have that, can we? It&#8217;s that we still break for a three-month summer recess. That made sense for me as a farm boy in the &#8217;50s, and I probably learned more on the back of a tractor than you city kids did watching Captain Kangaroo. But we aren&#8217;t a rural society any more &#8212; and a nine-month school year doesn&#8217;t even adequately cover the baby-sitting role of schools. That&#8217;s critical because it&#8217;s not the &#8217;50s anymore and single-parent and\/or two wage-earner families are now the norm.<br \/>\nWe can&#8217;t go on with the nine-month school year. It&#8217;s time to go to 11 months. Yes, that means paying teachers more and also finding another way to handle their continuing education, since summer school won&#8217;t be so easy for them. But as long as we cling to a 19-th century school year model, we will fail to properly educate kids for the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most serious failing of our K-12 system is rarely addressed because it would cost money to fix it and we can&#8217;t have that, can we? It&#8217;s that we still break for a three-month summer recess. That made sense for me as a farm boy in the &#8217;50s, and I probably learned more on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}