The public school in Campo, Colorado, hasn’t required all its students to come to class on Fridays for nearly two decades. The 44-student district dropped a weekday to boost attendance and better attract teachers to a town so deep in farm country that the nearest grocery store is more than 20 miles away.
“I think the four-day week helped us, initially, in recruiting teachers,” the superintendent, Nikki Johnson, said. “Now that so many districts are on four-day, that’s not much of an incentive.”
No national database tracks the number of public schools that cram instructional hours into four days. But the schedule — long popular in rural Western communities — is becoming more common elsewhere as school leaders search for ways to both attract teachers and save money.
In Oklahoma, for instance, where teachers recently staged a walkout to demand more school funding, cash-strapped districts have been using four-day weeks to cope with a teacher shortage and state budget cuts. Last school year, 97 districts of 513 ran on the compressed schedule, nearly twice as many as the previous year.
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11 comments:
Are they serious? US kids already test in the bottom quarter compared to the rest of the world's children in Math,and Science. Our children get 180 days, and still are stupid. Eating Detergent, dog poop, snorting used condoms. Most adults even think they at 18 are to dumb to own a gun.
is this a joke??? the kids coming out of government schools today are the dumbest, clueless, sissy's ever and we want to dumb them down more. good grief, say it isn't so.
The student population isn't being dumbed down by the number of hours in the classroom, but what's put into their heads by teachers, entertainment media, social media (it's infectious) and whatever else reaches their eyes and ears.
As a teacher I would love to go this way. One less day a week I would have to deal with these idiots!!
Maybe it is you and your kids. Students in the local public school in my area have a 99% graduation rate and 55% of the students are in AP programs. Around 95% of graduating seniors annually attend institutions of higher learning, including more than 165 colleges, universities and trade schools.
The parents' involvement and level of education is what ensures that their children attend, learn and succeed. People on the shore shun education, put down the university and don't encourage their children to succeed at anything other than football and baseball. You reap what you sow.
This must be part 2 of Obama's "Change" he was talking about, huh? Make our kids so stupid that can't compete in the world.
Plus stupid people or ignorant people can't decide for themselves, so they look to the government to lead them. They become sheep, just what the Democrats want.
How do I afford all this day care expense to give these poor poor teachers a rest?????
Excellent idea. The only thing in Wicomico County the pathetic Board of Education members would vote to have the day off on Wednesdays to punish the teachers.
Anonymous said...
Maybe it is you and your kids. Students in the local public school in my area have a 99% graduation rate and 55% of the students are in AP programs. Around 95% of graduating seniors annually attend institutions of higher learning, including more than 165 colleges, universities and trade schools.
The parents' involvement and level of education is what ensures that their children attend, learn and succeed. People on the shore shun education, put down the university and don't encourage their children to succeed at anything other than football and baseball. You reap what you sow.
April 18, 2018 at 8:36 PM
Um... I was with you until you made this dumb comment:
"People on the shore shun education, put down the university and don't encourage their children to succeed at anything other than football and baseball."
Ummmm... It's football and African-American ball, not baseball!
Anonymous said...
Are they serious? US kids already test in the bottom quarter compared to the rest of the world's children in Math,and Science. Our children get 180 days, and still are stupid. Eating Detergent, dog poop, snorting used condoms. Most adults even think they at 18 are to dumb to own a gun.
April 18, 2018 at 5:24 PM
The Annotate Code of Maryland, Section 7-103 requires that schools be open for students 180 days and a minimum of 1,080 hours during a ten-month period. For you dummies that shouldn't be voting, that means instead of going 5 days a week the students will be going for slightly longer days. No be deal. You idiots making stupid comments just STFU!
1:36. Rude and ignorant.
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