Reply #12: That's the truth. We just added additional minutes to the day. And more... [View All]

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Totally voluntary, we provide space and projects for students, every day after school and all day Fridays.

Because the challenge isn't so much giving them time as it is finding staff for supervision, at our high school we've hired two graduate interns, recent graduates, to interview and support an intern program.

The task for interns is to coordinate activities with any and all students who come after school or on Fridays, and this can be just having time and support for catching up on work or remediation, or it can be learning and using our robotics labs, laser cutters, multimedia and video, and other projects.

We're a public charter, all union, but with lots of flexibility because we don't take Title I funding (NCLB can go screw itself). Despite the flexibility, many of the teachers have fallen back into that trap of fixed curriculum and teaching to the test, so it's even more important that students get some time at school to explore and expand, instead of being forced to conform.

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