Schools.

[psyche29]

I was chatting with wandaxmaximoff today and we were comparing the length of the school year for each of our kidlings (she lives in the UK and I live in the US - Minnesota, to be exact).

I wanted to find out how many days kids in my state actually have to go to school, and was pretty disappointed to discover it's less than the nation's average, not to mention outside the US as well.

An article I found: Minnesota School Year Requirements Too Casual

What do you think?

Comments

[psyche29]

And really, I agree with all of your "cents!" I understand why the school year originally started out the way it is - most of the country was very rural and farmers needed their offspring to help with the planting, tending and harvesting of the fields and crops and animals.

That's just not the case anymore, and if kids are the future, then we need to give them a much more solid foundation!