What do you think about a 4 day school week? - Page 2

kaydee50 · ‎02-07-2011

A 4 day school week and up to 3 months vacation throughout the year. As it is the children will never make up for the time lost during the pandemic.

No, I don't think a 4 day week is a good idea. If anything they should lengthen the school day and the school year.

beckyb1012 · ‎03-09-2010

My two grandchildren's school district is doing it this upcoming school year for the first time. My DDIL is not happy one bit. The school also is the only school I have ever heard of in our East Texas area that as an early release for students and staff every single Friday at 2:30. I have no idea if now that will be early release every single Thurs.

"Live frugally, but love extravagantly."

ROMARY · ‎04-28-2010

This is just a question because I really don't know the answer.

How can schools/children 'fail' if everything is right there, on their phones and/or computers?

All they have to do is 'look up' answers, etc.

Years ago, we spent hours and hours at our public library 'copying' by hand all of the information/research we needed for the next day's quiz. (We weren't able to remove/check-out books from a certain

section of the library.

(And our teachers knew exactly which subjects/research projects to give to us so we had to spend hours copying by hand.)

Well, enough about THAT!

Anyway, seems to me that kids have it 'easier' because of all of their gadgets and available and speedy information.

We were up to two, three am in the morning, studying for two or three tests all on the same next day.

Gee.....brings back not so good memories........

Have a nice day! (In an attempt to end on a better, more cheerful note.......)

'More or less', 'Right or wrong', 'In general', and 'Just thinking out loud ' (as usual).

VanSleepy · ‎10-05-2010

@VanSleepy wrote:
Are they then making the school year longer to get in the required number of days?

I answered my own question and looked up Missouri... no. Thirty-two less hours per school year for the ones on a four- day week.

JeanLouiseFinch · ‎10-03-2011

I'm not in favor of it. Not only from economic and academic standpoints but, IMO, a five day school week sets up a habit that children will take into their adulthood, being responsible to be up, ready and prepared for their jobs, They get plenty of days off during the year and summer vacation.

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

What about parents that don't have free child care and can't really afford to have to pay for child care or lose a days pay?

On It · ‎03-15-2021

I have not seen the instructional requirements for various grade levels and subject matter. Perhaps these have shifted to weekly requirements rather than daily. I have been out of the classroom far too long to be relevant.

What I do know is little ones have a short attention span. The early elementary grades are going to cram a week's worth of instructional time into 4 days? What is the length of those 4 days? Older students will probably adapt. The little guys are going to need special accommodations. I have ideas how to accomplish this, but it is going to require some master teachers to pull it off successfully.

FiddleDeeDee · ‎03-06-2020

When we moved from MD to FL, we were very surprised to see how FEW days off our boys had during the school year. Where we live, school starts the first week of August and runs to the last week of May. Mondays are short by 1 hour so teachers/staff can have their meetings, updates, whatever they need. We do not have 1/2 days, we do not have days off for Teacher Education Days. In MD, where we lived, it was 2-3 days at least per month, that school was closed for these teacher days. We always had 1/2 days the week of Thanksgiving and the last 2 days leading to Christmas; not here.

I thought that schools HAD to be in session X amount of days which is why we would have Snow make-up days in MD. In FL, we had to make up the days that our schools were closed due to Hurricane Ian; they added back in the hour on Mondays instead of having early dismissal and added a few days at the end of the school year.

With this in mind, how is a 4 day school week going to fulfill the required hours/days?

My vote:against

*Four Seasons once again*

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

@ROMARY wrote:
Four days a week seems fine, as long as schools offer a daycare on the fifth day.

Children can study and/or do homework at school.

Just thinking right now........Now-a-days, children don't have to 'memorize' as much as we used to.

They can access almost everything in a few seconds/minutes on their phones or
computers.

So, right now, I'm fine with school four days a week.