| Why not restructure the school year 12:51 - Jan 3 with 875 views | Crawfordsboot |
Since the school year totals 39 weeks and includes breaks of at least a week between six week blocks couldn't the current problem around Covid be dealt with by rethinking term dates. Schools could be kept closed for four weeks to provide a covid lockdown. Term times through the year could then be in blocks of 6,7,7,6,6,7 weeks (total 39 weeks). With breaks between of 4 (now before starting) then 2,1,2,2,2 (total 13 weeks) Grand total 52 weeks.
So kids would get a full academic years worth of teaching plus the important lockdown of schools could take place now.
There are frequent reports that the long summer break for schools is detrimental to learning. Is this the perfect opportunity to test the idea of shorter, but more frequent breaks.
Be interested to hear from teachers out there. [Post edited 3 Jan 2021 13:19]
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| Why not restructure the school year on 16:04 - Jan 3 with 728 views | TractorWood |
A long summer term makes loads of sense as the virus is clearly massively seasonal. |  |
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| Why not restructure the school year on 16:06 - Jan 3 with 721 views | Pinewoodblue |
Might be difficult to move Easter. |  |
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| Why not restructure the school year on 18:08 - Jan 3 with 611 views | StokieBlue |
| Why not restructure the school year on 16:04 - Jan 3 by TractorWood |
A long summer term makes loads of sense as the virus is clearly massively seasonal. |
Covid definitely has a seasonal component but there are some studies showing that this coronavirus can also be a problem in the summer (one can look at Brazil as an example of this - it's been consistent all year).
It's certainly worse in winter though, you're absolutely correct.
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| Why not restructure the school year on 18:11 - Jan 3 with 604 views | GeoffSentence |
Makes complete sense to me. They should ease of on the summer holiday authoritarianism as well though, assuming the situation allows for having a holiday away by then. |  |
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| Why not restructure the school year on 18:14 - Jan 3 with 597 views | Ace_High1 |
| Why not restructure the school year on 18:08 - Jan 3 by StokieBlue |
Covid definitely has a seasonal component but there are some studies showing that this coronavirus can also be a problem in the summer (one can look at Brazil as an example of this - it's been consistent all year).
It's certainly worse in winter though, you're absolutely correct.
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It's more to do with time of year - at Winter we socialise more indoors, infections therefore increase. |  | | |
| Why not restructure the school year on 18:19 - Jan 3 with 589 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
| Why not restructure the school year on 16:06 - Jan 3 by Pinewoodblue |
Might be difficult to move Easter. |
It moves every year.
No reason for Schools to be closed for two weeks around Easter, anyway. Good Friday is a Bank Holiday and Easter is on a Sunday. In the churches which are more into festivals and Saints days the biggest Maundy Thursday service is usually in the evening.
Really not a problem. |  | | |
| Why not restructure the school year on 18:42 - Jan 3 with 552 views | wkj |
From the perspective of a teacher in training; this will make it very difficult to get a job over summer, which is much more common than you might think. [Post edited 3 Jan 2021 18:42]
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| Why not restructure the school year on 19:19 - Jan 3 with 498 views | Crawfordsboot |
| Why not restructure the school year on 16:06 - Jan 3 by Pinewoodblue |
Might be difficult to move Easter. |
😠Ok but it would be easy enough to change the 6 or 7 sequence to fit. | | | |
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