BigGov

Pure year round school would be 261 days. 365-104 (weekends)

So on average, teachers would need to be given about a 50% pay raise.

A drastically large amount of school supplies would be needed. Paper, ink/toner, chalk, 50% more across the board.

You're asking this from many school districts that can't even afford 180 days. I remember when at my school the teachers had to start saving paper because they were on pace to run out at the 3rd quarter mark, I remember boxes of chalk being treated like gold. I remember school desks being used 20 years past their intended lifetime.

The dollar costs alone are too high.

But the kids being lazy? School, friends, work, extracurriculars. Lazy? I remember with the exception of my last semester I was at school for 8 hours. I would normally like to spend some time with friends, so I'll say 2 hours there. I had a job for about a year and a half, where I would work normally 4-6 hour shifts during the week. Of course, if I had anything extracurricular with a class, that would go for most of the night too, band concerts, popping popcorn for basketball games, covering topics for the school paper (when the semester I wrote for it), or what not. That's a busy day, and it doesn't factor in time for family, time to relax, or time to SLEEP. I normally got about 5 on a weeknight. I forget what doctors say kids really need, but I believe it's about 9 hours.

Taking time away wouldn't do anything to make me less lazy, I'd just be a pissed off son of a bitch for a hell of a lot longer.

I was lucky to go to a high school of 2000 where there was a large number of choices of classes to take, however, a large number I took because I had to. I learned absolutely nothing from them, and I saw absolutely no point to them, spending an extra 20 hours in that class would just be a waste of my life. No, I'm not bull shitting in the least, it would be a complete waste of my life and I'm not the only one, because everyone I knew felt the same way. (EDIT: I feel this needs an example, so how about "Teen Living Skills" a class where we learned absolutely nothing in all seriousness. Well, after thinking about it, I believe we learned about a proper diet, how to make crappy food dishes, how to do laundry, and some worthless psychology crap that was dumbed down so far any psychologist walking into the class and hearing the crap they say would probably break down the door of the principle and demand they learn a fucking clue. And oh yes, THIS IS A REQUIRED CLASS TO GRADUATE) So say the occasional 1% would be touched, whoopty fucking doo, it's a waste of thousands of hours of life a YEAR.

What's the point? Well, those thousands of hours of wasted life the tax payers have to pay for. Oh, and that's just in my district alone. I don't even want to think about putting those numbers into national numbers.

Oh yeah, and I was relatively uninvolved compared to everyone else I knew.

I'm a strong proponent that the parents are almost always at fault, and this is coming from an only child whose parents are divorced, whose mom should be in a mental hospital, and whose dad he rarely saw because either he's working, or I was doing something. 9 month school years didn't hurt any previous generations, and I strongly doubt all of a sudden I don't feel like doing anything because I have 3 months off.

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