Another city abolishes year-round school

The key on the right-hand side of this blog should add another symbol: failed corporatist gimmick.

Ever since its initial rise, year-round school was destined to be one of the all-time biggest duds. To say that school systems switching to a year-round calendar was an answer in search of a question would be an understatement. This was an idea I knew would fail - and it did.

Year-round school has yielded no academic benefits, it has inconvenienced families, and it has almost certainly increased the prevalence of bullying and disease.

Although year-round school is a failure, you're not allowed criticizing it, of course. I was hounded off a message board a couple years back because I did.

The worshipers of year-round school who chased me off that site are lucky they don't live in Dayton, Ohio.

Despite public opposition, the Dayton school board adopted a 12-month schedule in 2005. But now it's proven to be such a disaster that Dayton is returning to a shorter calendar.

According to interim superintendent Kurt Stanic, year-round school hasn't served kids as well as the school board expected. Then what exactly did the school board possibly expect? Apologists for year-round school always try to make it sound like year-round school will cause schoolchildren to float happily through life and feel nothing but love forever. If they really thought that, then they were delusional.

Year-round school served nobody except our corporate overlords.

(Source: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090219/NEWS0102/902190412/1058)