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You know, when i ran for like student body president and i ran to ban paddling from my high school. that's how long this thing has been around. >> it's absurd. one of the biggest problems in public education is nostalgia. we think things were so much better back in the day. something as silly as hitting a child with a piece of wood is still considered something that we may want to do in school. we had a parent hit a child with a piece of wood last week. we called the police on her. you can't hit children with objects. we understand, i understand the need to be creative with discipline but in o...

A lot of students do it. does that transfer to high school? i'm not talking about the work you do in 12th grade but compressing high school education. >> we actually compress it at our school. we are a year-round school at capital prep. our students go to school more days than the traditional american school year. we don't subscribe to the agrarian calendar. as long as the rigor and amount of work is the same, who can argue? removing a year, making less information available is a problem. >> why is it problematic? because of the argument this utah senator and others make is sometimes people wa...

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