Posted on 03/14/2011 4:51:31 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Students in the Madison School District will have up to 20 minutes of additional classroom time each day starting Monday to make up for four days canceled last month because teachers were attending protests.
Because no additional days will be added to the calendar, most teachers will not receive additional compensation for that time, district spokesman Ken Syke said.
Madison schools were closed to students Feb. 16-18 and Feb. 21 because a significant number of teachers called in sick to attend protests against a state proposal to limit public employee collective bargaining. Gov. Scott Walker signed it into law Friday.
The School Board reached an agreement with Madison Teachers Inc. over the weekend that allowed the district to set the makeup calendar. The agreement also ensures teachers with unexcused absences will not be paid for those days and that teachers who submitted fraudulent sick notes will be suspended.
The district has not yet released the number of teachers that missed school to work those days. The district received more than 1,000 sick notes, including some from doctors who were handing them out at the Capitol protests, assistant legal counsel Matt Bell said.
The Department of Public Instruction requires schools to have a specific number of days and hours of instruction during the school year. The extra time will be added to the end of the school day and vary between elementary, middle and high schools:
• Elementary schools will have 20 minutes added per day, a full day on March 29, rather than a half-day, and 65 minutes added on the last day of school, June 10.
• Middle schools will have 12 minutes added per day, including Wednesdays, which will replace professional collaboration time.
• East, West and Memorial high schools will have 15 minutes and La Follette High School will have 18 minutes added. Those will be on top of minutes already added for a Feb. 2 snow day. The last day of school will be a full day instead of half-day.
Funny how at one time they were thinking about “year round” schools so that kids could get a better education and “catch up” to Asian students who beat the poop out of our students in math and science. I bet a million dollars that “year round” school would result in LOWER reading and comprehension scores for our students.
That's my favorite sentence in the whole article.
“Gov. Wilson?”
Is that Gov. Walker’s soccerball? ;p
It doesn’t really matter how poorly they do in school. If they can’t pass the entrance exam to the police force, we’ll just lower the acceptable standard to an ‘F’ and send them out on the streets to enforce laws they can’t read and assess fines they can’t add.
/rant off
Me: “Did you pass the entrance exam, officer? No? Then I wasn’t speeding because you can’t add.”
It doesn’t really matter how poorly they do in school. If they can’t pass the entrance exam to the police force, we’ll just lower the acceptable standard to an ‘F’ and send them out on the streets to enforce laws they can’t read and assess fines they can’t add.
/rant off
Me: “Did you pass the entrance exam, officer? No? Then I wasn’t speeding because you can’t add.”
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