A four-day school week is being proposed. This is probably one of the worst ideas ever (other than allowing the mutilation of children). American children are not reading at grade level, are not proficient at math at grade level, and are not being taught basics like civics and how to write using cursive. Soon no one will be able to read the original founding documents — the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, etc. Is this where we want our country to be? Who will be the creators, the inventors, the authors and great American thinkers we...