The whole public school system needs to be sent back to each state and the Dept of Education shut down. Forget the 4 day week.
I just turned in an historical project wherein I had transcribed several wills of the time (1850). I transcribed them using a script font....since our local schools doesn't teach it anymore. Maybe I can change some minds.
This would may be a back door means to force a 4-day work week. I know teachers’ unions will be on board, but I expect that all public-sector unions would join in supporting this idea.
No, 6 Days is better.................
yes as long as the day off is not wednesday. give them a 3 day weekend
Four day school week means 20 percent less chance for violence with education way down on the hierarchy of more important things to accomplish, such as equity, inclusion, indoctrination, gender confusion, learning about the teacher’s sex life, etc.
Teachers are incapable of imparting anything but their leftist agenda in five days so why not limit exposure to their crap by a full 20%?
Say, they may be onto something here!
they need that extra day because it reminds them of their covid pj's and sipping coffee days...
Well, that would be one less day per week that a teacher wouldn’t be targeted and shot by one of her six year olds and for former students to go shoot up their school and former classmates. Probably a good idea in the commie RATS new Dung Beetle Party country. Anybody hear when the Millies and Zeros plan on renaming America because it was a slave state named after a white supremacist?
FTA: Soon no one will be able to read the original founding documents....
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All part if the plan.
5 days at school, Saturday for home maintenance and vigorous exercise and Sunday for 4 hours of religious instruction and socializing in a chaperoned setting
Three months - 5 days a week followed by one month off; repeat
Young Folks could be “schooled” 6 days, 12 months per year.
Why not?
Not just “book” learning either - physical experiential learning. And not just in Goobermint “Schools”.
Civics, marksmanship, basic finance, basics of how food is produced, where energy comes from, home economics, basic hand tools, learn to swim, to drive, to sing, to play an instrument . . .
What we used to learn from family, church and school-
Youth - so much to learn, and the time to do it-
Simple question: Why aren’t schools in some form, all year long? Why do teachers only work 9 months a year instead of 12 months like the rest of the workforce? I understand the student’s need for a break from classes, that’s a given. But why a 3-month break? It makes no sense. Also, if colleges exist to prepare students for a job/profession in the real world why do they not have classes that reflect the real-world environment and work conditions? It’s all ridiculous union bullcrap.
The answer is a solid, loud NO!
What problem are so-called teachers and administrators trying to solve with a four day school week? I highly doubt it has anything to do with making student proficient in reading and math.
As some of you know, I homeschooled my children. Time was an interesting problem in homeschooling, at least when we started homeschooling. Many think you need to mimic the amount of time teaching that government schools do. However, homeschooling parents quickly discover that they don’t need to school the same amount of time as government schools. Far less time is required.
We also discovered that time shouldn’t be the focus in homeschooling. It is a matter of what to value most out of the many variables in homeschooling and education in general. We valued mastery above all else. Note, mastery isn’t proficiency; which is what many government schools give lip service. I don’t think they even strive for proficiency, to be honest.
Mastery was our goal. We used enough time to achieve mastery. Most days our lessons were complete by the time Rush was on the radio, noon. The kids still had “homework” to do, but even that didn’t take too much time. It was just enough to master the day’s lessons. We made a point in being efficient.
We didn’t teach the next lesson unless there was mastery. So the approach was simple. If a lesson wasn’t mastered on the first day, a different approach was taken the next day. We would sometimes school on Saturdays, but not all subjects. The one thing we never did was run have long school days. That included homework, which was really just practice what was learned in a lesson. We didn’t call it homework.
My children were free to roam the neighborhood by the time government school kids arrived home from their school day.
Public school is 6-8 years of actual education padded out to 12 with crap and indoctrination. In some districts its little more than daycare. The less of that the better.
20% less pay to start! That would end that idea!
Kids are not being taught reading, writing, arithmetic and history right now.
BTW kids need the summer off to be kids.
Not in ours. The potentates of education feel that it creates a problem for parents, which when our district is considered inner city, I can sort of agree with that.
Other districts say it’s to help on teacher retention and opportunities to plan and for professional development.
Regardless, the people that actually keep schools functioning will always be on a 5 day week.
Are they going to cut Teachers pay by 20% ????