Four day school weeks in the future?

OREOSpeedwagon

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My friend's mom was telling us about how the bill isn't passed yet, but is in legislation that would add an hour to each school day but Friday, Saturday, and Sunday would be the weekend. Anyone know if this is true or BS?
 

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Some rural districts already run a 4 day school week to save on transportation costs for bussing the kids to and from school. Some students have to get on the bus at 4:30 in the morning to be at school by 8, and then don't get home until 8 at night.

Ryan
 

minendo

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Originally posted by: bryce
My friend's mom was telling us about how the bill isn't passed yet, but is in legislation that would add an hour to each school day but Friday, Saturday, and Sunday would be the weekend. Anyone know if this is true or BS?
This has been recent discussion in Indiana, but I highly doubt it will ever pass. Indiana school systems suck too bad and are ranked terrible in the nation for them to have less school. If anything, these morons that can't pass the ISTEPs should be in school 7 days a week.
 

silverpig

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They are talking about doing it here... Some schools are already doing it as a test.

4 day weeks with longer days.

Some have even gone so far as to make 4 day weeks, 2 months on, 2 weeks off (or something like that), all year around.
 

Eli

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You never know, the way most of the States' budgets are right now.

Oregon now has the shortest school year in the nation because of budget cuts and the fact that Measure 28 failed.

School now ends May 13th here(instead of June 10th), and Spring break is 2 weeks now, instead of one.

Woo! 4 months of summer. ;)
 

Cycad

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I am for a 3 day school week, ahh what the heck we don't need to go to school.
 

johnjohn320

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I've heard of this. Apparently it also made for improved test scores.

Shrug. Still dont see it happening anytime soon though.
 

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That might be tougher to get approved in more urban areas because any time you make a change in school schedules, the work schedules for parents might cause conflicts. If it's a rural community where a lot of the people might work at the same plant or something it might be easier to have work schedules adjusted accordingly. I know around here there is a heavy push by many people to go to year round school (with 2 week breaks scattered throughout the year while still having a 4-6 week summer break) but some people are resisting it since they're worried their office schedules and daycare scheduling might not be as accommodating (although daycare will ALWAYS work around the school systems' schedules.)
 

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My fiancee had a four day school week at her high school in Custer, South Dakota. Their classes started at 7:50 and ended at 3:45, instead of the typical 8:30/3:15. They found that they actually got more done in that time, scores went up, students were happier, and teachers didn't complain either. The only problem that they had was some parents didn't want to pay for extra child care on the extra day.
 

RossMAN

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Originally posted by: Eli
You never know, the way most of the States' budgets are right now.

Oregon now has the shortest school year in the nation because of budget cuts and the fact that Measure 28 failed.

School now ends May 13th here(instead of June 10th), and Spring break is 2 weeks now, instead of one.

Woo! 4 months of summer. ;)

I kinda wish this had happened 10 years ago when I was in high school. I would have LOVED to get out in May instead of mid-June :D
 

OREOSpeedwagon

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Originally posted by: Cycad
I am for a 3 day school week, ahh what the heck we don't need to go to school.

We don't need a school? If neega no go to school, neega no get a job, if neega no get a job, neega no make no money, if neega no make no money, neega no be able to afford BMW 7-series neega!

 

Eli

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Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: Eli
You never know, the way most of the States' budgets are right now.

Oregon now has the shortest school year in the nation because of budget cuts and the fact that Measure 28 failed.

School now ends May 13th here(instead of June 10th), and Spring break is 2 weeks now, instead of one.

Woo! 4 months of summer. ;)

I kinda wish this had happened 10 years ago when I was in high school. I would have LOVED to get out in May instead of mid-June :D

:D Yeah, I know what you mean.
 

ViRGE

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Originally posted by: Eli
You never know, the way most of the States' budgets are right now.

Oregon now has the shortest school year in the nation because of budget cuts and the fact that Measure 28 failed.

School now ends May 13th here(instead of June 10th), and Spring break is 2 weeks now, instead of one.

Woo! 4 months of summer. ;)

You should clarify that a bit, Eli. Only the Portland school district is on that schedule. The rest of the districts in Oregon are still working on their plans because of the 28 failure, although it's unlikely any of them will be nearly as severe as Portland.
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: ViRGE
Originally posted by: Eli
You never know, the way most of the States' budgets are right now.

Oregon now has the shortest school year in the nation because of budget cuts and the fact that Measure 28 failed.

School now ends May 13th here(instead of June 10th), and Spring break is 2 weeks now, instead of one.

Woo! 4 months of summer. ;)

You should clarify that a bit, Eli. Only the Portland school district is on that schedule. The rest of the districts in Oregon are still working on their plans because of the 28 failure, although it's unlikely any of them will be nearly as severe as Portland.

Yeah, you're right actually.. Kinda jumped the gun there. But still... PPS is the largest school district in Oregon(I think), so.. lol. The cuts have to come from somewhere, so..
 

XZeroII

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It may become an option, but it's not like all schools are going to switch over to this.
 

johnjohn320

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Originally posted by: vi_edit
My fiancee had a four day school week at her high school in Custer, South Dakota. Their classes started at 7:50 and ended at 3:45, instead of the typical 8:30/3:15. They found that they actually got more done in that time, scores went up, students were happier, and teachers didn't complain either. The only problem that they had was some parents didn't want to pay for extra child care on the extra day.

8:30/3:15=standard? :confused: Not even 7 hours?

Bah, class for me starts at 7 and gets out at 2:21.
 

Chaotic42

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Originally posted by: minendo
Originally posted by: bryce
My friend's mom was telling us about how the bill isn't passed yet, but is in legislation that would add an hour to each school day but Friday, Saturday, and Sunday would be the weekend. Anyone know if this is true or BS?
This has been recent discussion in Indiana, but I highly doubt it will ever pass. Indiana school systems suck too bad and are ranked terrible in the nation for them to have less school. If anything, these morons that can't pass the ISTEPs should be in school 7 days a week.

Oh, man. That is so true. We have idiot high schoolers calling up when it's 40 degrees, asking if school is cancelled.
 

her209

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To reduce overcrowding in schools, they should stagger so that each group takes classes every other day.