Sentences with phrase «miss hours of school each day»

And kids are not the only losers when they don't attend school or when they miss hours of school each day.

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Missing out on even one hour of sleep a night could have major consequences for a child, possibly lowering their cognitive abilities the following day and possibly hurting their academic performance at school or acquisition of knowledge at home.

«With tardy students entering the school day at abnormal times and potentially missing a large number of cumulative instructional hours, teachers must divert their attention away from regular teaching time and towards remediation,» he says.

So every year, at least 800,000 teachers in the U.S. are chronically absent, meaning they miss about 9 million days of school between them, resulting in roughly 1 billion instances in which a kid comes to class to find that his or her time is, more often than not, being wasted (or if you prefer, about a billion hours of wasted class time, since students in the early grades don't have «periods»).

You don't want to miss Mike Klonsky's reportage on a facet of the longer school day / year debate that has so far escaped Chicago's mainstream press: the fact that Mayor Emanuel's children attend a school with the same hours in the school day and fewer days in the school year than Chicago's.