Children face longer days and term times under free school plans

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8586788/Children-face-longer-days-and-term-times-under-free-school-plans.html

Summary

In accordance with the decision by the Policy Exchange think-tank chools and academies have been granted certain liberties that leave them not only in control of their teachers’ terms of employment and work wages, but also gives them the freedom to experiment with their schooldays. This means some schools may have class in some weekend days, longer days on average, more extra-curricular activities or less school breaks. In doing this the schools hope they can improve the quality of the education they offer. So far there have been 281 applications for free schools have been made so far.

Response

I first of all want to express my sympathy for the poor, poor students who will be submitted to these gruesome weeks of educational horror. I do think it would make an interesting experiment, the results of the reformation in these schooldays should be apparent in little to no time at all and if it works the changes made could be made permanent. I am interested in what will happen if it ends up not working at all, will they change the system back or stubbornly keep it the way they’ve made it?

P.S. I am so glad I don’t have weeks like the ones these poor pupils are going to have to be suffering through