Learning Centered Schooling - Part 3

Once you change the role of the teacher and the function of class time it leads to an obvious change in the school year and daily schedule.

If the lessons are no longer tied to class time it means that student attendance every day is no longer critical. Obviously students need regular class attendance, but the digital lesson plan allows for individually paced learning.

This is where the big school year change comes in. Have a year round school year. Where "school year" really doesn't mean a lot. So the idea is that the school operates like any other business. It is open five or six days a week all year round.

Students have vacation days like employees have and can take them whenever they want. So if a kid's family decides that they want to be gone the whole month of November that's just fine. There isn't any reason kids need to be off from the end of May to the beginning of August. Let the family decide when they want to have the kid gone.

It would also be a benefit for teachers. Since they aren't delivering lesson plans it would be a lot easier for them to take leave and be gone since their role would be less structured.

So school would operate year round with kids taking off when it was best for them and their family. There would not be inconvenient breaks  where the parents had to figure out how to have their kids watched because of arbitrary school breaks.

The flexibility would benefit working parents and make everyone's lives simpler and more straight forward. It's a nice day and you want to go to the beach? That's fine, use a vacation day and go. No guilt or lying or not going.