4 day school week?

[Sccritterkiller]

We can send billions to Ukraine but we can't pay teachers or 1st responders....How many teachers and 1st responders could we hire with 22 billion?..This country needs to get its head out its ass before its too late, maybe it already is if less education due to lack of funding is the answer.

 

[amassi]

We can send billions to Ukraine but we can't pay teachers or 1st responders....How many teachers and 1st responders could we hire with 22 billion?..This country needs to get its head out its ass before its too late, maybe it already is if less education due to lack of funding is the answer.

Bingo
Once we beat the ussr and it crumbled we were supposed to enjoy a shift of funding from defense budget to domestic spending.
I guess the military industrial complex has a stronger lobbying base than the teachers union


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[cnelk]

Probably not. Some of the chatter about a four-day school week is that it saves on some operating cost.

After working in the Operations Department for a large school district for 25 years (and retired from) I can tell you first hand that saving money isn’t something that a large school district is good at.

The stories I could tell would hardly be believable.

So glad I’m not part of that anymore

 

[Sccritterkiller]

Bingo
Once we beat the ussr and it crumbled we were supposed to enjoy a shift of funding from defense budget to domestic spending.
I guess the military industrial complex has a stronger lobbying base than the teachers union


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Econ 101 guns v butter model...When it comes to lobbying pharmaceutical industrial complex is its only competition...

 

[manitou1]

We can send billions to Ukraine but we can't pay teachers or 1st responders....How many teachers and 1st responders could we hire with 22 billion?..This country needs to get its head out its ass before its too late, maybe it already is if less education due to lack of funding is the answer.

Obama had 1.2 million dollars when he entered office and left office with 90 million.
You think all that $ goes straight to war fighting efforts and humanitarian aid?

We the people have been taken for a ride for years now.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

I promise you, the public school system will easily lose the saved money and still be in the same financial spot in the end


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Probably. But....Thats what school districts do, kick the can down the road and hope the situation will improve in a year or 3.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

After working in the Operations Department for a large school district for 25 years (and retired from) I can tell you first hand that saving money isn’t something that a large school district is good at.

The stories I could tell would hardly be believable.

So glad I’m not part of that anymore

I worked at one place that had some poor engineering when it was built which meant that snow melt was running off into a crack (not into the drain) which was eroding part of the foundation of the school. There was a lot of damage and it needed to be fixed. The super approved 6,000 dollars to be spent on cans of spray foam to be sprayed into the crack once a week during the run off and rainy season.

They literally had a whole cargo container full of boxes of spray foam cans.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

We can agree to disagree.

Sorry but claiming that a 4 day school week is going to leave people woefully under prepared to enter the work force is an incredibly weak argument. Talk about grasping at straws.

Like peoples heads are going to explode when they dont get fridays off??? anybody who struggles with that is not the person you need working for you anyways.

 

[GrayGoose]

Most kids will simply stay up an extra hour if school starts an hour later so I really doubt late starts will result in better rested students.

High school kids will stay up late regardless of school start time hence the reasoning for later start times. This isn't a kid staying up late to play video games either. Teenagers are undergoing changes and one of those changes is their internal clock which results in staying up later at night and sleeping in longer. If school starts at 9 am, teenagers are able to get or be closer to getting the 8 or 9 hours of sleep they need.

 

[AKBC]

High school kids will stay up late regardless of school start time hence the reasoning for later start times. This isn't a kid staying up late to play video games either. Teenagers are undergoing changes and one of those changes is their internal clock which results in staying up later at night and sleeping in longer. If school starts at 9 am, teenagers are able to get or be closer to getting the 8 or 9 hours of sleep they need.

All the kids I know would just stay up an hour later if school started later.

 

[CorbLand]

I promise you, the public school system will easily lose the saved money and still be in the same financial spot in the end


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That’s government entities period. There is no incentive to save money. If you spend less in year x, you get less in year y.

 

[wind gypsy]

Hmm okay well it's been awhile since I went to college but I don't know anyone that went only 3 days a week. Unless they were part time students.

If i made it to 3 days a week that was pretty solid. Yes there were classes all 5 days

 

[OMF]

All the kids I know would just stay up an hour later if school started later.

That's on parents to be parents and guide their kidlets to make better decisions then.

 

[cnelk]

Both my kids went to school for 5 days a week (no late starts), along with sports activities. Then they went to college.

They are now adults with full time jobs that require them to work 5 days a week.

For some reason I think there’s some parallels there…

 

[timmymac24]

Winner winner OMF 31 years in the classroom here and it won’t matter if the kids are in school 3,4,5,6 days a week. What does or doesn’t go on at home with parents sets the stage. Google standards based grading. That’s the latest pendulum ride my district is taking. I put my resignation in effective at the end of this year due in part to SBG BS. I‘ll be the old guy saying education is nothing like it was when I started in the 90’s.

 

[Felix40]

My son goes to school 4 days a week. I see no issue with it. It works great for us. It sure is nice to have Mondays to do stuff when most other kids are in school.

 

[menhaden_man]

The hungry dog runs faster… too bad we created a slow culture. Average screen time for kids is something like 6 hours a day. Good luck America. With any luck only 60% of our children will be obese by 2030.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

That's on parents to be parents and guide their kidlets to make better decisions then.

Whoa whoa whoa!!!! Easy with that sort of talk buddy. People don’t like to hear that sort of stuff.

 

[MattB]

Most kids will simply stay up an extra hour if school starts an hour later so I really doubt late starts will result in better rested students.

If only they had parents….

 

[manitou1]

The hungry dog runs faster… too bad we created a slow culture. Average screen time for kids is something like 6 hours a day. Good luck America. With any luck only 60% of our children will be obese by 2030.

I thought it was like 70% now!