Many school districts around the U.S. are moving to a four-day school week to retain teachers. Districts that don’t want to raise taxes to pay teachers more are using the long weekend as an incentive.
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Contagion - one district does it, then the neighboring district does it, too. There are entire clusters now in Texas, Missouri, Montana, where every district anywhere near you only offers four days of instruction. There is no other option. And when you get these cluster contagion effects, schools lose their competitive advantage.
They should try paying them fairly and not treating them like garbage.
What are working parents supposed to do? I don’t have a 4 day work week, so now I’d have to pay for childcare?
so is it a 32 hour week or a 40 hour week? how does that impact after school activities (sports, etc)?
