What If School Offered More? The Case for Community Schools
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By: Kevin Dahill-Fuchel
Children spend only 20 percent of their time in school between kindergarten and 12th grade. One-fifth of the day. Everything educators are asked to accomplish, academic growth, social development, and taught skills for adulthood, has to happen in that narrow window. And children need to be ready to learn.
The other 80 percent of the day can’t be boxed up neatly during school hours. Life follows students through the school doors.
I’ve worked in New York City
Children spend only 20 percent of their time in school between kindergarten and 12th grade. One-fifth of the day. Everything educators are asked to accomplish, academic growth, social development, and taught skills for adulthood, has to happen in that narrow window. And children need to be ready to learn.
The other 80 percent of the day can’t be boxed up neatly during school hours. Life follows students through the school doors.
I’ve worked in New York City
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