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Incomplete school weeks spark complaints
Written by Charlie Brennan on Feb 20th, 2012. | Copyright © EdNewsColorado.org
April has “no uninterrupted week?” That means every week of April has an interruption, but I doubt that the writer intended to say that.
Thanks for the copyediting. We have corrected the sentence.
Several years ago when I was teaching in Kansas City, the KCKS school district started early release on every single Wednesday. It’s a District with lots of families living in poverty. The community stepped up and churches across town opened up for supervised care on those Wednesday afternoons.
This article raises a number of important issues that I believe link back to two issues: time and communication. Time: contact time with students vs. non-contact time to balance the planning and professional development needs of teachers and schools. Communication between stakeholders: parents, schools, and district decision makers. It seems that these two themes of time and communication drive many decisions and are the source of many challenges in our schools.
I appreciate the emphasis on parent feedback offered in this piece. I believe that the more communication between stakeholders is strengthened and elevated in our school districts, the better we are able to reach solutions and compromises on any issue – be they calendar issues, budget issues or issues of teaching and learning in our schools.