Academic Calendar Quotes

School should be eleven months of the year.

I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I'd get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.

Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.

We need to lengthen the school day. We need to lengthen the school year. Our calendar is based upon the agrarian economy. Children in India and China are going to school 25, 30, 35 more days a year. They're just working harder than us. So, we need more time, particularly for disadvantaged children, who aren't getting those supports at home.

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

Must's a schoolroom in the month of may

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.