With the trumpets belting out the fanfare, we can't hear the squeeky read section. Sure, some kids scored well on a test, but they had to do it on "their time, not our time, Mr. Hand."
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"We studied very hard. We had to stay in after school every day and Saturday."YENESIS BRITO, a fourth grader at P.S. 33 in the Bronx.
Reading further:
But the percentage of eighth graders meeting state standards, a consistently grim measure of middle school failure, rose only fractionally statewide and fell 2.8 percentage points in New York City, according to results for both grades released yesterday by the state education commissioner, Richard P. Mills
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So, if student's test scores improve only because kids are staying afterschool and in school on Saturday's, what does that say about the existing structure of the Academic Calendar?
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