There are quite a few towns in rural Idaho that use the 4 day schedule. A lot of the counties are largely federal land, so the tax base is fairly small. Without timber sales receipts, rural schools and county road departments are strapped.
Yup I can see that as a possible problem. Much of that is people leaving education because the teachers and staff no longer have the power to discipline kids.
That is absolutely one of the most common reasons people leave education or at least leave the classroom for higher paying office jobs in education.
I’ll also add that where I live, you can get a basic Joe job that pays as much as some teachers make. You’d have less responsibility as much or more money and wouldn’t have to babysit.
Yups so they then bumped up the pay for teachers and TA's. In order to entice them. But have to decrease the work week to keep them. What need need to do is go back to accountability.
I don’t know man. Where I live, a teacher straight out of college makes 49k a year. You can work at the power plant for 35.00/hour with less education and better benefits.
I’d also add that according to the NEA (the largest educational union in the country) teacher happiness and productivity has gone up in states that increased teacher salaries by a meaningful amount.
The college I work at has a position that requires a four year degree and two years of experience to start around 37K a year.
Yeah it’s insane isn’t it?
The part that is insane is that they scratch their heads wondering why they can’t fill those positions or when they do, the person leaves after about a year.
I agree and the same exact thing happens in schools. The pay is low, the responsibilities are increasing while admin support goes down. And retirement benefits disappear
There is a fair bit of research that suggests many kids’ academic performance suffers due to sleep deficit. 8 hours often isn’t enough. Starting school an hour later seems to be a more effective solution than having kids go to bed an hour earlier.
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.
What you’re really implying is that minimum wage is good enough
sort of,..
We can agree to disagree.
