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50K a year? What's what, 1/3 of the superintendent salary?
Terrible idea, IMO.
"As schools return to session in South Dakota, more than one-fourth of students in the state will only be in class from Monday through Thursday as budget constraints lead school districts to hack off a day from the school week. Larry Johnke, superintendant of the Irene-Wakonda school district, says the change will save his schools more than $50,000 per year. In order to make up for the missing day, schools will add 30 minutes to each of the other four days and shorten the daily lunch break. 'In this financial crisis, we wanted to maintain our core content and vocational program, so we were forced to do this,' says Johnke. Experts say research is scant on the effect of a four-day school week on student performance, but many of the 120 districts that have the shortened schedule nationwide say they've seen students who are less tired and more focused, which has helped raise test scores and attendance. Others say that not only did they fail to save a substantial amount of money by being off an extra day, they also saw students struggle because they weren't in class enough and didn't have enough contact with teachers."
50K a year? What's what, 1/3 of the superintendent salary?
Terrible idea, IMO.
I'm sure the families with two working parents are thrilled at the prospect of having to figure out what the to do with their kids on Fridays.
Yeah, I was thinking of that too.
Just seems like a bad idea all the way around, especially for something that doesn't even save all that much money.
and lol @ the less tired, more focused BS... It's ing school, not a job
That happens here a lot in Hawaii due to budget restraints. It's called "Furlough Friday". I don't think most parents are fans.
This article is dated but:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...982331,00.html
the entire Irene-Wakonds school district has 300 kids.
if the super has to cut $250k, I wonder what the annual budget is.
Of course, this is a tactic to get a bond measure passed.
They do it regularly in my county for libraries.
they go back and forth between 4 and 5 day work weeks just to get bond measures passed?
do you have time to post a link?
This is an assumption.
I'll bet they have something in the works to be voted on. It's a normal political ploy, hurt the people who vote to extort more from them.
After reading about it and watching the interview with the super, I'll bet they don't.
Just a simple cost cutting measure. nothing more, imo.
WC goes on his hunches and regularly makes stuff up... he's usually wrong
It would appear you're right. Did a little digging around, seems the state forced a 6% cut in school funding from state revenues.
Shocking.
You're only right in that I will interject opinion that is wrong from time to time.
However, if that's how you want to believe things, who cares but your mother?
A) I love this for the kids. Works better for learning, much like in college. Better for time with parents and kids.
B) Incentive for other jobs to offer 4 day work weeks. For many employers, this is not an option, but there are enough jobs that would benefit from this for the same reasons the kids would do better in school: more family time, more sleep, higher morale.
Guess all the working parents who work for the school district will like it.
except for the teachers who still have to work a half day on Fridays for students that want tutoring.
I would love for them to change it to 4 days a week. They waste a ton of time doing nothing now as it is and the teachers are way over paid as a whole. Change it I say plus lower the teachers pay by 25%.
Lower the teacher pay by 25% your a moron....Jack needs to go spend some time volunteering at a school in a poor district...teacher salaries are the last line of defense between inadequate school funding in Texas for education, thanks Perry, and the complete collapse of our public education system in Texas....which is what these wing-nut politicians and their minions like Jack want anyway so they can get around the rules separating religion and education with Charter schools and turn them into Christian madrases...
Not really objective there NONO
Not to mention that may times the only real meal these kids will eat are the food they get at school....having the kids at home means more spent on food or the kids don't eat....many poor families will have to chose the latter...
Kids have weird sleeping patterns anyway...I'm not sure whether a extra day off would make them more or less tired, but there would be bigger gaps in their learning than there is now without face time with a qualified teacher..
Many parents don't want extra time with their kids....the kids sit around and play video games all day
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