Four Day School Week

[Ridley]

How do you all feel about a four day school week?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-no-monday-class-colorado-students/452178002/

This article states its due to a lack of funds, which I can see, but how will it benefit the kids? They claim it will give the teachers more time to prepare for class so things can be more focused. I can see the parents having a difficult time with this. I just don't know what my opinion is of this, yet.

Thoughts?

 

[mean dad]

Yay, hastening the decline of our education system.

 

[asdfghwy]

Quality > quantity.

Teachers get paid shit-tier salaries, are expected to buy their own supplies, and spend a ton of time grade papers/homework/tests during their evenings and weekends. I think giving teachers 1 day during the week where they can do all of this is great.

We spend billions on war but can't fund schools or properly pay teachers. Welcome to America

 

[Mike95060]

They already have one 1/2 day every week. Its a crock of shit and makes life impossible and or more expensive for working parents. FUND OUR FUCKING SCHOOLS.

 

[Blankpage]

4 day work weeks and summers off, I should have been a teacher. But then there's that pay rate so yeah nevermind.

 

[Schnellbandit]

Quality > quantity.

Teachers get paid shit-tier salaries, are expected to buy their own supplies, and spend a ton of time grade papers/homework/tests during their evenings and weekends. I think giving teachers 1 day during the week where they can do all of this is great.

We spend billions on war but can't fund schools or properly pay teachers. Welcome to America

And spend 100 billion to build a train but hey, lets not confuse billions with billions.

 

[CoorsLight]

Yay, hastening the decline of our education system.

Quality > quantity.

Teachers get paid shit-tier salaries, are expected to buy their own supplies, and spend a ton of time grade papers/homework/tests during their evenings and weekends. I think giving teachers 1 day during the week where they can do all of this is great.

We spend billions on war but can't fund schools or properly pay teachers. Welcome to America

They already have one 1/2 day every week. Its a crock of shit and makes life impossible and or more expensive for working parents. FUND OUR FUCKING SCHOOLS.

Honestly, you guys sound like you come from communist Sweden or something.

We're running schools like businesses: cut costs and cut deliverables.

 

[CoorsLight]

And spend 100 billion to build a train but hey, lets not confuse billions with billions.

He meant to say trillions.

 

[Kim]

I think I remember reading a different article that said they will lengthen the regular Tuesday through Friday schedule to make up for it. Which is fucking horrible. I can’t imagine being in school LONGER then still having to come home and do homework. That’s too fucking much.

 

[Dubbington]

And increase taxes to 'fix roads' but that $$$ goes to building toll lanes to further tax...

....and teacher salaries don't increase.

 

[wazzuFreddo]

The rich have to get their tax cut, why can't the rest of you just sack up?

 

[Blankpage]

Wouldn't you rather have more nuclear weapons and F35's

 

[wazzuFreddo]

$25 Billion would pay for a lot of school funding. Educated children would sure be a lot better for the counrty than a wall in the middle of nowhere.

 

[MysterYvil]

Our current system is pretty much a babysitting service. If they cut to four days who profits from picking up the slack?

 

[rsrider]

Quality > quantity.

Teachers get paid shit-tier salaries, are expected to buy their own supplies, and spend a ton of time grade papers/homework/tests during their evenings and weekends. I think giving teachers 1 day during the week where they can do all of this is great.

We spend billions on war but can't fund schools or properly pay teachers. Welcome to America

It's all going according to the plan.

 

[Ridley]

I think I remember reading a different article that said they will lengthen the regular Tuesday through Friday schedule to make up for it. Which is fucking horrible. I can’t imagine being in school LONGER then still having to come home and do homework. That’s too fucking much.

I thought I remember reading about the longer day too. Like i had said, I can see the cost saving aspect for the school, but that just highlights the crappy funding issue. I have to wonder how many of these kids will have more idle time at home to get into trouble.

After I graduated from college I returned to my hometown. I needed a job so I went back to my old high school and became a substitute teacher, I only did it for two months. The school district had changed up the daily schedule dramatically. Instead of having 7 classes per day, like it was when I graduated, they had moved to 4 classes per day. Each class was 1 hour 45 minutes. Their reasoning was that they couldn't get kids to concentrate on 7 classes each day. They would complete four subjects in one semester, so by the end of the school year they would complete the requisite number of subjects in that year. At first I thought it was a novel idea. It was a joke, the kids still couldn't concentrate and half the class was spent wrangling students.

 

[msethhunter]

They already have one 1/2 day every week. Its a crock of shit and makes life impossible and or more expensive for working parents. FUND OUR FUCKING SCHOOLS.

Completely agree with everything said here. My town is a perfect example of how they've totally screwed the pooch. I've seen the town go from 85k people to just shy of 150k people, and they haven't built a single new fucking school. Now, they are saying there is a budget shortfall. How is that possible with all the new tax revenue the city is getting.

FUND OUR SCHOOLS!

 

[Schnellbandit]

Wouldn't you rather have more nuclear weapons and F35's

Better to have a train and unfunded schools?

Education is mostly funded and controlled at the state level. How many nukes and F35s does California own?

There is no school funding problem, there is a how the taxpayers money is spent problem.

I take it you are fine with funding that train while school funding goes wanting? Maybe we can use the train to send students from Bakersfield to SF to partake in the educational excellence afforded there? Oh wait, the train doesn't actually go to SF. Forget that, it doesn't go anywhere yet and how many billions is it costing?

 

[Mike95060]

Our current system is pretty much a babysitting service. If they cut to four days who profits from picking up the slack?

I disagree about school being a babysitting service, have much respect for all the teacher my kids have had so far.

I can tell you about the racket that is going on due to the 1/2 day schedule fuckary.

Keep in mind, most public schools have very limited bus service. Also keep in mind that school start and stop times do not follow most parents work schedule and after school sports and activities like band?, are few and far between in grade school. So here is how it works.

There is an on campus daycare company named Campus Kids Connection (CKC). They fill in the gaps in the morning and the afternoon when a child has no place to be or no parent to pick them up. CKC is arranged so that you may NOT enroll you kid one day a week to cover the 1/2 day. They must be there two days a week minimum. Space is limited and there is no real competition from other daycare providers unless they offer to pick up or drop off your kid while you are at work. So, CKC has a monopoly on after school care. Its so bad that parents in our area LINE UP in front of their offices at 4 or 5 AM on enrollment day to make sure they can get their kid enrolled. Yes space is that limited and you are that fucked if you miss out. What does it cost? About $1200- $1500/ month if you have two kids attending 5 days a week.

The school schedule has been a cash cow for this company and its getting worse. The only silver lining is CKC is well run and my kids were happy to go there. The days of shoving Johnny and Susie on to the corner to catch the buss and then seeing them when they make it home are long fucking gone in CA. Think about the traffic nightmare that happens when 100 cars show up twice a day at a building that was supposed to accommodate a dozen or so buses. It's a fucking mess, it hurts the business world because parents have to do back flips with scheduling and the kids are getting short changed.

 

[aminalmutha]

I thought I remember reading about the longer day too. Like i had said, I can see the cost saving aspect for the school, but that just highlights the crappy funding issue. I have to wonder how many of these kids will have more idle time at home to get into trouble.

After I graduated from college I returned to my hometown. I needed a job so I went back to my old high school and became a substitute teacher, I only did it for two months. The school district had changed up the daily schedule dramatically. Instead of having 7 classes per day, like it was when I graduated, they had moved to 4 classes per day. Each class was 1 hour 45 minutes. Their reasoning was that they couldn't get kids to concentrate on 7 classes each day. They would complete four subjects in one semester, so by the end of the school year they would complete the requisite number of subjects in that year. At first I thought it was a novel idea. It was a joke, the kids still couldn't concentrate and half the class was spent wrangling students.

They pulled that shit my Sr. year in high-skoo'. Dumbest shit evar. Even the over-achievers in the advanced classes got bored AF. I think they switched it back to somewhat-sanity a couple years after I grajeeated.