time. that was based on the raring economy, and last time i checked, most of our children weren't working in our fields. children need different amounts of schooling. some may need five days a week, nine months a year. other children might need six, seven days a week, longer days, afternoons, because of what's going on at home or in the community. some children need one meal a day at school, some children need three meals a day at school. when i ran chicago public schools, we sent home very discreetly for a couple thousand children backpacks full of food over the weekend because we were worried about them not eating on the weekend and not coming back to school. if your stomach is grumbling, you can't learn. what's been constant in education is time, and the variable has been learning. i want to flip that on its head. i want learning to be the constant and the variable to be time, and let's give every child exactly what they need to be successful. the second one is we need to