Nbadan
10-19-2005, 03:38 AM
Facing increasing fuel and utility costs, trustees for a North Texas school district have endorsed a plan that would limit the school week to four days.
The North Lamar Independent School District board decided Monday to allow Superintendent James Dawson to gather feedback and present a plan to the Texas Education Agency. The state agency would have to waive the requirement that schools be in session for 180 days a year. Dawson acknowledged that the plan doesn't come without sacrifices.
The fifth day's instruction would be absorbed into the four-day week, making classes at the high school an hour and 55 minutes and adding 90 minutes to the school day.
The plan would also dock a day's pay for the district's cafeteria workers and bus drivers. Those employees would retain their full-time benefits, Dawson said.
MySanAntonio (http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8DALS78A.html)
Anyone remember what happened when the Ga. Governor tried to close schools for two days to save fuel last year?
Leaving aside the poor parents who now have to guess if they need to waste sick days because it’s too late to get babysitters or make alternate arrangements, should their children’s schools be closed, this idiotic proclamation is going to worry so many people that I’d be surprised to not see a stampede to the gas pumps."
Multiple Mentality (http://multiplementality.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2005/09/23/450)
The North Lamar Independent School District board decided Monday to allow Superintendent James Dawson to gather feedback and present a plan to the Texas Education Agency. The state agency would have to waive the requirement that schools be in session for 180 days a year. Dawson acknowledged that the plan doesn't come without sacrifices.
The fifth day's instruction would be absorbed into the four-day week, making classes at the high school an hour and 55 minutes and adding 90 minutes to the school day.
The plan would also dock a day's pay for the district's cafeteria workers and bus drivers. Those employees would retain their full-time benefits, Dawson said.
MySanAntonio (http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8DALS78A.html)
Anyone remember what happened when the Ga. Governor tried to close schools for two days to save fuel last year?
Leaving aside the poor parents who now have to guess if they need to waste sick days because it’s too late to get babysitters or make alternate arrangements, should their children’s schools be closed, this idiotic proclamation is going to worry so many people that I’d be surprised to not see a stampede to the gas pumps."
Multiple Mentality (http://multiplementality.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2005/09/23/450)