School Daily Schedule

[NamasteBirches]

So a while ago our state's "school report cards" came out & it got me thinking about things. We didn't do all that particularly well. I think the biggest thing that has got me thinking is because I have a unique look into things by subbing.
DS' schedule looks like this:
M - Art, Computer Lab, Spanish
T - Gym, Computer Lab, Spanish in his classroom taught by the college kids
W - Music, Computer Lab
Th - Library, Computer Lab, Second Step which is a lesson by the guidance counselor
F - Music, Computer Lab, Gym
Specials are 40 minutes long. Lunch & recess combined is 45 minutes. 
I used to like that they had so many "extras" but in recent times I'm realizing that they're hardly in their classrooms. It makes me wonder if there's any correlation to their state scoring, you know? & since I get a good look inside the classroom, the time that they are in the classroom, everything is a "workshop." Writers workshop, readers workshop.. it's basically a free for all. They rotate at stations & are "supposed" to do said work but let's face it, this is elementary school, most of them are goofing off. It's like there's no instruction anymore. I remember when I was in school, we were sitting at desks all the time with the teacher in the front teaching. Now these kids are all floating all over the place dilly daddling.
So I'm wondering if it's just his school or if this is just how schools are now?
How is it where your LO goes to school?

[misspeansmama]

DD is only in kindergarten, so I am not sure if this will change next year but right now she has one special per day and the rest of the time is in the classroom (except lunch and recess). DD said they have some time in the morning where they do "group" learning so they are broken out into smaller groups to work on different things. But she said most of the day she sits at her table. DD has a very old school teacher, which honestly I like, but I know a lot of the other younger moms don't see eye to eye with me on that and they all dislike her.

[NamasteBirches]

DS' schedule was very similar in kindergarten as they had the same specials. They also had these workstation nonsense & instruction was mostly at the carpet as a group.
I feel like they're only at their tables when they're working on projects or something.
I could go for an old school teacher. Sometimes I feel like these kids are just not being challenged enough tbh.

[yellowwallpaper]

My son is in K and only has one special per day as well, except for Wednesday when they have library/media and gym. They also have gym on Thursday.

I wish our school did Spanish!

ETA His specials are music, art, library/media, gym & technology (computer lab)

[NamasteBirches]

I think one of the main things that has us second guessing a lot of things here is we pay a separate school tax here. When we were originally looking for this house, we saw another house in a different district that had a school tax & our realtor made a statement along the lines of usually districts around here with a school tax are usually "better", etc. When we went with our house, we actually didn't know we lived in a school tax town. We found out after the fact which was annoying when we got hit up with the bill after the fact.
So anyway, with seeing how things are run here, I'm left thinking like... what are we paying for? Nothing is really holding us here & if we could get him in a better school district, now would be the time before he gets really immersed into his schooling so that's what's been going on over here.
They're also trying to get approval to build a "campus" for all grade levels & I just can't get on board with that. Part of the reason why I liked it here was because the schools were split up into grade levels to have a small population of kids in each so if that gets approved = taxes go up. Like our town is so small, it's not needed.