Group Five Presentation

Group five did their presentation on chapter 8, Organization of American Schools. They went over major goals of an American school, and they were: academic, social and civic, vocational and social. To me that covers how a school should be and that I can't even think of anything that it is missing. Something I found very interesting about their presentation and they had us discuss as a class was if we would like a four day school week as opposed to the regular five day school week. They went over the pros and cons of it and I feel that there are equal pros and cons. I didn't really realize there are a lot of cons to it, like: three day weekend can cause you to be sluggish, teachers would get lower pay, sleep cycles of students would be off, and parents would need to spend money on babysitters being that they will be at work when they will be off on that fifth day where they would be in school. Overall I really enjoyed their presentation and felt they did a very good job covering it.