Houston School Kids Will Not Make Up Days Misssed For Hurricane
Kids in the Houston Independent School District will not have to make up classes missed because of Hurricane Ike.
This means students will lose between seven and eleven days of the school year in Houston. Different schools opened at different times depending on when the power came back on.
Gayle Fallon, President of the Houston Federation of Teachers, said she would have taken the district to court if school officials attempted the make up the missed time. Ms Fallon said ”This is something we would have taken them to court over because this was hardly a vacation.”
See–Teachers don’t get enough vacation. What if teachers only got five or six weeks over the summer instead of seven or eight? And that vacation time is in addition to the vacation time already built into the school year.
The Houston Chronicle article on the issue said also that some principals and parents expressed concern about making up the missed time.
Right. It might be an inconvenience to extend the school year a couple of weeks.
Teacher and parents should be lobbying for an extended school year. These kids in Houston are already in for a rough ride in life. Instead, the message is being sent that education is not the most important thing for these kids.
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yeah thats what they need less days in the classroom, texas is number 1 in education right? poor teachers only get six weeks of vacation instead of 8. we wonder why we are a simple uneducated country with high drop out rates, what a joke it is… this way the kids will have more time to play grand theft auto, get drunk, and follow in the steps of their parents. America better wake up and get these kids into year round school and actually teach them something that will make them marketable in the world market.