Exit Interview

(fro m:  Does a longer school year or longer school day improve student achievement scores? ) ELet's get two facts out of the way immediately:  1. We ALL want children’s outcomes to improve (although increasingly I question some peoples' motives. and, 2. Extending the school year is a bogus way to do this. Every teacher gets this. I would wager 95 percent of teachers get this, and over 80 percent would be willing to express this. Every teacher I have spoken with, to a person, has rolled their eyes at the notion of extending the school year. Teachers know that our students need more quality, not more quantity. Every teacher wants RPS to fix what's broken first. Do we build a fancy addition on a house that is crumbling? No - we fix the foundation(al) issues first. Most teachers look aghast at the notion of extending the school year when we have to go begging for the basic supplies to function for 180 days. We don't have what we need to deliver high quality instruction for...