By Don

September 8, 2005 11:28 AM | Link to this

Any extracurricular advanced studies that students would volunteer for on their own time shows maturity and initiative. Too bad they do not offer tha here in Georgia. Why do we have more of a tendency to mimick other state programs than present ideas of our own?

By Leia

September 8, 2005 12:39 PM | Link to this

I wonder who would teach these courses, and for what salary? They couldn’t persuade me to give up my already hectic Saturdays for regular salary.

By Concerned Parent

September 8, 2005 12:41 PM | Link to this

Any way for kids to take extra classes would be great. My daughter attends a Gwinnett County high school and has already taken 2 classes online to enable her to start a language in her freshman year. Six class periods is just not enough for high-achieving public school kids that want to go to the better colleges and universities and have to compete for slots agains private school kids that may have up to 8 periods a day and a larger amount of AP class options.

By Ernest

September 8, 2005 01:49 PM | Link to this

I’m open to this idea however would like information regarding logistics and costs. I can see the location of the facilities along with transportation being key issues that must be addressed. If it were centralized at ‘regional’ facilities so that multiple courses could be offered thus minimizing transportation costs, it could work.

By Poetry

September 8, 2005 02:54 PM | Link to this

I love the saturday class idea. However, AP Classes should also be offered during the summer break and maybe extra language courses as well. This will give the highschool students more of an advantage. They could use the schools that are open for summer school.

By ADL

September 8, 2005 03:20 PM | Link to this

A class on Saturday?? Isn’t UGA football much more important than getting an education? Sadly, that seems to be the case in this state.

By Jake

September 8, 2005 03:51 PM | Link to this

You know if they could offer those classes on Saturdays and Sundays we could have twice as many, or complete the class in half the time! And how about evenings from 6:00 to 9:00? That’s three hours just wasted. Seriously, there would be a conflict with my daughter’s soccer and marching band, which already take up most of her Saturdays. And by the way, how many of you parents have 6 day work weeks?

By Dick

September 19, 2005 04:31 PM | Link to this

We had done this for years my child was in 5th thru 8th grade. We had a set up with Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Ga. It gave the children a chance to see and expericen several items, such as college life (even if only 5 hours once a week, ) what a college class room was like as to taking notes, working on computers,etc. Yes, we had to sacrifice for about 20 Saturdays (no football games, camping, parties, etc, but it really paid off as to the child being prepared for the future. I would recommend this to all school systems. They were able to choose 3 classes out of 10 each month. Who taught classes-professor and college students.