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ne saici ne also neeaea 10 know what assumptions had been made about the length of the school year or school day. “Have all assumptions been based on late August to early June?” he wondered. “The school year and school day are arbitrary to begin with. Perhaps we could go until 4 o'clock or start at 7."
Estabrook referred to a study called Education and the Cult of Efficiency which “documents the effects of decisions not emanating from educational thought but from business thought, not what’s educational, but that is economical.”
“I need a great deal more information from the school board and from the community at large. If leadership can be defined as being out in front of the pack, I’ve got to find out which way the pack is headed. I think I need answers before I could make recommendations to the school baord.” Estabrookadded.
Reeve asked Faulkner his opinion on going from two to three lunch periods.
Faulkner said he had worked with physicians and school nurses on this problem as well as educators.
"The educators’ position is that the most valuable time of the day, the time when the average energy level is highest, is broken up by lunch,” he said. “It’s rough to have that time split up into
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