180 days?

On the Fischbowl web page, I read the blog posted by Karl Fisch in April "180 days?". Barry Bachenheimer, who is the Director of Instruction for Caldwell-West Caldwell Public Schools in New Jersey and also a professor at Montclair State University, used a power point made by Karl Fisch in one of his classes to start a discussion-"Did You Know?/Shift Happens". A lot of the students didn't really seem to care so much because they were mentioning that they do not have enough time to do what they already are doing. It lead to a discussion about how well the time is used yearly for students to learn and/or make a difference while in school.

Barry Bachenheimer created a response to his students' thoughts and called it "180 days", and Karl Fisch took and "remixed" the response and created his own version called "180 days?". The whole presentation is showing how a lot of the days are used in school to do things that are not absolutely necessary, and could be used for many better things. The countdown went all the way to 120 days. 60 days of the 180 days allotted for students to be learning in school were not used efficiently. I like the fact that Karl deducted 12 days from the 180 for testing. I disagree with testing too, Karl! Maybe the administration at schools need to analyze what all is going on while the students are attending class, and realize maybe they don't need a movie day once a month. Use that time to better not only themselves, but the world...