i don't know about elsewhere but here in south Mississippi the school board has been talking about making students go to school for only four days a week
because of gas prices and other reasons i'm not sure of yet. but is this happening anywhere else and if it is are you for or against it?
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school four days a week!?!
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Naraku's Slave
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If it wasn't for my naturally wavy hair...
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Seven Lucky Gods Martial Artist
Posts: 2757 (07/19/08 02:13 AM) |
I don't know if that's a good idea. The best solution I can think of is expanding the school bus system so not as many parents have to drive their kids
to school, and perhaps offering some kind of benefits to encourage kids to take the bus instead of drive. I never drove to high school (I'd just heard too
much about parking hassles); I either took the bus or walked (of course, I live about two miles from my old high school, and then only in the afternoon). Okay,
my mom drove my brother and I some days, but not every day.
So yeah, I don't think a four-day school week would be much better for American educational standards. Of course, at the same time I a summer break of at least two months (none of this "year-round schooling"), and I don't support mandatory uniforms (sorry fellow otakus  ). Those just don't
look like they'd be at all comfortable in Southern California in September or June; I don't want to know how they'd feel in the South.
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Musk Dynasty Member
Posts: 1861 (07/19/08 01:11 PM) |
Our city government is trying to transition a lot of its departments to a four day work week. Not stuff like fire/police, but the more bureaucratic
departments. They would either close on Monday or Friday and work ten hour days. There appears to be enough interest to at least get the idea on the ballot
for a vote.
There are a few businesses in town that already do a four day work week, some of which have been doing that for decades. |
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Sesshomaru's Toadie
Posts: 12 (07/20/08 02:06 PM) |
Since I'm out of school at this point *oh thank you great powers above*, it doesn't affect me much, but this news doesn't surprise me.
Remember the flipside though of attending school one day less. Certain required time attendances for students, no matter what state, have to be met. Thus, expect that if those students have a day of school cut off, each day of school for the other four days will likely be increased by at least an hour at minimum, possibly 2... I'd have rather gone Friday then, no way in hell I would've been able to wake up earlier than what I did to get to school on time then anyway. I haven't woken up at 7am in probably 4 years at this point... |
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