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The Sports Junkies debate if school should be year-round.
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00:00all right so we're taking your calls at 800-636-1067 talking about a proposed plan in
00:06loudon county for a year-round school calendar i actually think it makes sense a couple people
00:12have tweeted us one from north carolina says i have family involved in several year-round
00:18school systems in north carolina and in florida typically it's nine weeks of school
00:22then three weeks off throughout the year uh the rationale like i don't know that you mentioned
00:28why um is to reduce the amount of education that you lose in the summer meaning a lot of people
00:39forget things so a lot of the and you could probably since your wife is a teacher you probably
00:44attest to that that there's summer learning loss and then the first couple weeks let's say you you
00:52finished algebra and then you move on to the next subject but then they got to reteach you
00:57the algebra yeah from april and may because you had june july and august off so by this way you
01:06would reduce the summer learning loss brain drain of summer yes so great to just lose everything you
01:14learn during the summer while you're jumping in the pool playing tennis hanging out with your boys
01:19it worked great for our generation i would just feel terrible for kids if they didn't have summers
01:24that's all yeah i'm just summer's summer's so important well they would sacrifice a little a
01:28little stupidness so like you said they would give them five weeks off yeah they'd have a mini
01:33summer according to this plan the last day of school will be june 14th yeah the first day of
01:38school on july 23rd i think the total amount of school would remain the same yeah it's just changing
01:44the brake structure right and then theoretically you don't have that learning so you could still
01:50plan your summer vacays in that five week span you could still have some vacations yeah possibly
01:56it would just be a little bit different but i'd like to hear from teachers too all right let's go
02:00to the phones 800-636-1067 it is an open line thursday because you didn't know that let's go to
02:07malik in buoy malik what's up buddy y'all with the jokes malik hey good morning how are you
02:16i'm doing well i'm on my way to work as a teacher and i'm going to tell you guys that
02:20that is not a
02:21good idea now the county is wrong right um the summers are for teachers and uh i think it was
02:28uh
02:28jp speak of learning loss that learning loss will happen four times a year every time you do a break
02:36is forget everything so two weeks uh two months similar law versus two months similar laws spread
02:43out to the year the same thing they're still going to forget not a good idea they're still going to
02:47forget yeah i knew the teachers wouldn't like it where do you teach do you teach high school
02:52elementary what yeah i teach high school i'm at a private school in uh tacoma park maryland
02:56oh okay very cool very cool all right thank you malik appreciate it over at tacoma academy
03:01is the tacoma academy still over there no down box with christa ray oh okay okay cool
03:05thank you man appreciate it malik according to this story the board has received mixed opinions
03:10about the plan with some members expressing concerns about the potential loss of summer
03:15work for teachers and the impact on summer programs and camps so they would lose their side hustle
03:21oh yeah and look a lot of teachers like they need to augment their salaries by working in the summer
03:26sure well also they can recharge their batteries that's a stressful job for sure let's go to chris
03:32in uh only chris what's up buddy hey guys thanks for taking my call appreciate it what's up bud
03:39yeah so my wife grew up as a summer as a sleepaway summer camp um person and she absolutely attributes
03:46almost all of her social emotional growth to being able to spend that seven weeks with her
03:51all of her summer camp friends actually half of her bridesmaids were from her summer camp a sleepaway
03:58camp that she would meet that she met so getting away at summer camp is actually and i think stunt
04:03the growth of a lot of these kids in the social emotional space and you're and it's really not
04:08going to help them but um when it comes to um the um actually retaining of the learning what's the
04:12percentage of kids though that go to sleep away summer camps i would say it's very low yeah it's
04:18probably very low i would say but you also have a lot of those day camps that are going to
04:21lose out
04:22that you just mentioned yeah um i also think that kids have a lot of knowledge right at the tips
04:27of
04:27their finger right on their fingertips when it comes to computers and phones and whatnot so just
04:32because they're a little bit down in cognitive skills right now doesn't mean they're actually behind
04:36when it comes to overall knowledge base all right something i think about have a logical explanation
04:42all right thank you chris appreciate it buddy i wonder if the county would um
04:50replace the full-time teachers with subs for some of those summer weeks you know what i mean
04:56yeah i don't know i don't know how that would work i mean i'm sure teachers would be fine with
05:00it
05:00i'm sure the teachers would you know what i mean and the substitute teachers are getting i don't
05:03know what are they getting uh 75 to 100 bucks a day something like that i don't know what the
05:09rate is probably something in that range i'm sure they'd be fine too
05:11it's going up let's go to dan in leesburg dan what's up hey guys uh thanks for taking my call
05:19i'm a i'm a loud and county resident i'll tell you i moved out here several years ago and moved
05:24out
05:24here partly because the schools were so great and the school system in general has i mean jason's got
05:30kids that went through this it's it's changed significantly in a short amount of time and it
05:34seems like the stuff they're doing i don't know if it's to make national news or or what but it
05:39doesn't
05:39seem like it has the kids or like the last caller said the teachers in mind they have a hard
05:43enough
05:44time anywhere getting teachers and attracting top talent what has changed have them work what has
05:48changed so much since you've been there this the quality of the school system is just not the same
05:54i mean if you look at if you look at the kid that just got arrested last week is a
05:5719 year old we can't
05:58have 19 year olds teaching high school kids and like the last caller said we have to do that over
06:02the
06:02summer and we're talking about like you guys mentioned the kids being cognitively behind our parents
06:07everything they're doing now and i know it's a state initiative is teaching kids to these sol tests
06:12at the end of the year as opposed to a much more broad curriculum like we had when we were
06:16students
06:16in other words they're teaching them just to pass the test totally yeah and and the phones are great
06:23kids have access to info but it's it's just like us it feeds you what you want to hear you
06:27can talk to
06:28my kids and ask them to point out countries on a map you know it's terrifying but you don't tell
06:32you
06:32exactly about i mean i can't do that i know i have a lot of access to information on my
06:37phone but it's
06:37it's nothing it's really going to help me in my life and enrich me educational hey dan are your kids
06:43in uh you have kids in high school or not there yet no high school yeah sophomore and middle school
06:50where do they go uh they go to school in leesburg we'll go to private school in leesburg oh okay
06:56i got
06:56you all right all right thank you dan appreciate it appreciate you calling in well that makes sense if i'm
07:01a
07:02teacher and i'm being judged on my kids and how they score on testing i'm obviously going to teach
07:08them the test and not necessarily a curriculum around and around the test right yeah but i don't
07:14think it's their choice i think it's the teachers have to teach whatever yeah curriculum dictates of
07:19course but but if if everything's being judged on one single test then obviously i'm putting all
07:25my eggs in the basket of the test yeah if that's what i'm sure being judged on yep the job
07:29is harder
07:31it there's science our attention spans are are shorter than ever because of screen time and so
07:40they're failing they're facing a taller task and then could you imagine if we had phones when we were
07:47in middle school of course not in high school i barely paid attention without that well that's why
07:53somebody's kind of trying to cut that down keeping keeping your phones there are studies now that in your
08:00book bags there are studies now that if you give your kid before they're five screen time i can't
08:08remember the exact amount of time it might have been as low as a half hour the gray matter in
08:13their
08:13brain decreases well i know mine was decreasing recently because my son walked by me when i was on
08:18my lazy boy and i had my laptop here and i had my my dumb phone here he's like you're
08:24dopamine maxing
08:25huh i was like yep getting all the hits i can i've been making myself actively dumber i've i've had
08:31my kids my kids have been around screens their whole life there they they turn out okay yeah
08:36they literally but i remember when my son i buy the baby einstein videos that's supposed to be a little
08:41smart you know yeah whatever but planted in front of the tv sure as an infant right sometimes you need
08:48a break as a parent a tablet and tv they could be a good substitute something to soothe them yep
08:55let's
08:55go to cindy in springfield cindy what's up go over the jump hey um i would challenge what's been said
09:04so
09:04far i teach at gw and um i can tell you some of the teachers are going back to i've
09:10always used books
09:10and i use notebooks there's no laptops allowed in my class um it there the way kids learn is not
09:19through lecture and it's it's it's by doing if you look up how people learn that's how teachers should
09:26be teaching um and so the idea of oh if they take three weeks off they're going to be forgetting
09:34everything too that's very different than taking two months off um and so i know for my own students
09:41they have told me like writing notes with their hands reading the actual book the more senses you
09:47activate when you learn the more you learn more that's science it's proven jason you would thrive
09:54in cindy's classroom you have a billion notebooks you would do well hey cindy listen uh a lot
10:00listen a lot of kids will drop my class because i tell them no you're writing by hand you're not
10:06bringing your laptop and there's no phones yeah um and so the ones that stay love the course but
10:13those are the ones that really want to learn yeah um how many are using chat gpt to write their
10:19papers
10:21they don't i don't have them write papers oh i avoid all that
10:27they don't write papers i have them doing in class activities and the bulk of their points are
10:32from what they're doing in class nice for her class you don't have to write papers small about it
10:38what is the course here's the thing what is the course you're teaching
10:43i teach in the milken school of public health so i teach in exercise nutrition sciences so i teach
10:50several courses in that um department so stress management uh personal health and wellness i've
10:58taught nutrition blah blah blah blah blah nice so um the thing too is um so much what did case
11:06just
11:06say he just caught me it was really good you he said some really good case anyways
11:11it's rare you should have written it you should have written it down you remember yeah it happens
11:1650 times a show you think i just pinpoint that one thing that i said that's brilliant
11:22okay thank you i appreciate it i'll say that what i have no idea so
11:27my my youngest the one i still have in high school uh she's at holy cross and so it's private
11:33school
11:34in public school are you allowed to have your phone and at private school you're supposed to be in
11:37your locker in public school are you allowed to have your phone i think it depends
11:40obviously it depends on the county jurisdiction like mcg county maryland are kids allowed to have
11:44the phones or it's but i think there's probably supposed my assumption was that they're supposed
11:48to be in the lockers i thought maybe that's just i thought pg county was prohibiting phones i could
11:53be wrong on that but it's a county by county i think it is i think it is fairfax for
11:57sure you
11:58cannot have your phones yeah i mean that makes sense i think that's reasonable um and then my you
12:02know my kid she uses you know ai for things to generate you know graphs or whatever and
12:08incorporates all that i think the teachers even encourage it to be honest with you um but all of
12:13her notes are handwritten yeah um i don't know i know when i was a kid i learned i was
12:20not an ideal
12:20student i did fine but i learned for the test and then i would simply forget it right i think
12:25i don't
12:26think that's exclusive to you i think that's a lot of people yeah study for what they need to know
12:30and
12:30then hopefully pass the test and move on to the next thing yeah montgomery county cell phone use
12:35prohibited during the school day okay so it's fairly standard yeah yeah i think that's
12:39appropriate yeah leave your phone i think most counties will eventually do i think the workaround
12:44is kids have their ipads and then they get on their little chat things yeah they're chatting with
12:48people they their workarounds but yeah or they hired the cell phone yeah all right if you want to
12:53continue to weigh in on the discussion about a year-round school calendar a lot of people are calling in
12:58about that 800-636-1067 you're welcome to do that on an open line thursday and don't forget coming up
13:04in
13:04just over an hour pete prisco from cbssports.com to talk nfl right here on the fan
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