Two key points that stood out to me in chapter 8 were the kindergarten movement and the creation of summer school. He kindergarten movement was a way try and help urban lives and those that were less fortunate. Teachers would teach their young students morals and values which they were suppose to bring back home and ideally these values were to rub off on the rest of the family. But what I don’t understand is at the young age of a child in kindergarten, a parents role is very important in the child’s life. Very often reinforcement is needed to keep the child progressing in their education. I am kind of confused on the idea of such a young child teaching their parents. Do you think this was an effective way to indirectly approach the quality of living?
The idea so summer school is also very interesting. As the chapter mentioned, parents would fight to have their child in summer school because it was seen as an extra intellectual advantage for the student. But now, anyone that goes to summer school gives the impression as not being smart and having many trouble passing classes. But recently, in the newspaper The Daily News, there was an article in which the mayor was propositioning to have the school year extended to 200 days and the school day extended to 9 hours. Do you think this added time will have a positive correlation on test scores, or will it not even make a difference?
