What if every day was a (12-hour) school day?

Brooklyn Charter School, which bills itself as the "school everyone calls home," is open 12 hours a day, Monday through Friday, for child care, academics (8:30 am to 4 pm), and after-school sports, music, art, dance and coding. Adopting the longer day in 2023-24 raised enrollment by nearly 100 students, reports the New York Post.

A new charter school in the South Bronx will go even farther, reports Carl Campanile in the Post. Starting in the fall, Strive Charter School will be open for 12 hours a day, seven days a week for an extra-long 200-day school year, and will offer a free summer camp. Students will be required to attend from 9 am to 4:30 pm for classes. Before and after classes and on weekends, Strive will offer enrichment, intervention and extracurricular activities. Breakfast, lunch and dinner -- if students are still on campus -- will be free.

“We are a one-stop shop,” said founder Eric Grannis, the husband of Success Academy Charter network CEO Eva Moskowitz. “We’re open 50 weeks per year, seven days a week, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.” Working parents need child care, and "few jobs end by 3:30," Grannis said. And "people's jobs don't close for the summer."

The instructional program will be modeled after the academics at Success Academy, which is known for its very high test scores, reports Campanile.

Strive plans to start with 325 students and eventually enroll 544 elementary students. Teachers will work from 9 to 5. Other staffers -- including college students pursuing teaching degrees -- will cover the non-academic hours. The school has raised private funds for start-up costs.

It seems like an enormous amount of time for young kids to be at school, even if few parents use all the extra hours. Brooklyn Charter's motto -- "the school everyone calls home" -- makes you wonder. Is that a good thing?