It'll be a three-day weekend every weekend for many students across the Mount Rushmore state.
As schools start to return to session in South Dakota, more than one-fourth of students in the state will only be in class from Monday through Thursday.
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Why don't they just shorten the school year?
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of idiots!
If they shorten the year it would add a lot of hours to make up during the week. It would also cram a lot of information into a shorter time frame; children already have a difficult time absorbing the information taught as it is. If they drop a day of instruction a week they still have 4 days to teach lessons and it gives the students time to do homework and study independently on Fridays. Any real parent wouldn't have a problem setting down to help their child with concepts in order to save the state $50,000-$100,000 in this current economy.
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ReplyDeleteBut now the 2 working parent family will have to take a day off a week.
And in the real world, the kids aren't going to sit home on Friday and do independant study. Just ain't going to happen!