SENATE BILL: 2011 Education Act (Law'd)

[tmthforu94]

An interesting proposal.

One way to possibly combat high utility costs would be to give students a longer winter break and go into the summer more.

[tmthforu94]

Increasing the length of the school day is a no go for me. If you were to do that, you need to increase the salaries of the teachers and also it would result in higher utilities costs. I do not believe that local municipalities can afford that at the moment.

And for that matter, you're unlikely to raise utility bills in the schools since schools are often active during the afternoons/early evenings with extracurricular activities as it is.  It's not as if we're pushing to keep school in session until 10 o clock.  

Not true. Air conditioning/heating is turned off in classrooms that aren't being used for afterschool activities.

As a high school student, I can confirm this.

[tmthforu94]

I have a concern on this for smaller schools. In my grade, there are only about 25 boys. Under this law, we'd all likely be placed in the same class. If that were to happen, someone like me on the higher end, intelligence-wise, would be slowed down.

It would be extraordinarily difficult for small schools to be able to keep honor classes and still separate boys and girls. Because in my school, if you had an honors English class for boys only, there'd be 5 students in it.

[tmthforu94]

While I would never support a full on implementation of separating boys and girls, running it as a pilot program would certainly be interesting.