4 Day School Weeks

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Anonymous wrote:Private schools will have a heyday if that happens. Just doesn’t work for working parents. All of the school holidays are hard enough.

Community centers/karate studios etc would pick up the slack for much cheaper than private school, just like they do now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private schools will have a heyday if that happens. Just doesn’t work for working parents. All of the school holidays are hard enough.

Some of you really need to educate yourselves about how private schools operate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do people really believe you can take away 7 hours every week and there will be no change in student learning? If this is the case, we have so much more to worry about.

WE do have a lot more to worry about. There is a lack of parenting and teachers time is going to dealing with constant behaviors....sorry about that.

[Anonymous]

High school nationwide needs to be a four-day week. High school students do not need babysitting. They need to get work and volunteer experience for college (and the current 5-day schedule prevents that, or severely curtails it). Teachers could use the free day to grade, plan, catch up on paperwork. Make Wednesday the "free day". I think everyone would benefit.

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Anonymous wrote:Do people really believe you can take away 7 hours every week and there will be no change in student learning? If this is the case, we have so much more to worry about.

WE do have a lot more to worry about. There is a lack of parenting and teachers time is going to dealing with constant behaviors....sorry about that.

That’s what I’m saying. Parents want even less time with their kids than they already have. Some people really should not have kids. Lazy, selfish people.

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Anonymous wrote:They should just go back to early release Mondays.

They never should have taken that away to begin with. They did it because of selfish parents who view school as free daycare. The same type of parents who are causing all of the current problems. Some people should truly never have kids.

You mean parents who have to work to pay their bills and live in the area? Or the parents who work multiple jobs to afford living in the area and provide for their kids? Based on your comment, the only people who should have kids are people who can afford after school care or one parent who can stay at home.

I was in school in the 80’s, we went 5 days a week and had an early release day once a month. The idea that kids attend school 5 days a week for a full day is not exactly new or novel.

We didn't have full day kindergarten when I was a kid, was that common here? I ask because I am now a Kindergarten teacher and it is exhausting.

I started teaching for FCPS in the mid-90s and it was half day kindergarten at that point. I don’t remember when we switched over to full day.

It was early 2000"s

I think it was around 2010.

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Anonymous wrote:They should just go back to early release Mondays.

They never should have taken that away to begin with. They did it because of selfish parents who view school as free daycare. The same type of parents who are causing all of the current problems. Some people should truly never have kids.

You mean parents who have to work to pay their bills and live in the area? Or the parents who work multiple jobs to afford living in the area and provide for their kids? Based on your comment, the only people who should have kids are people who can afford after school care or one parent who can stay at home.

I was in school in the 80’s, we went 5 days a week and had an early release day once a month. The idea that kids attend school 5 days a week for a full day is not exactly new or novel.

We didn't have full day kindergarten when I was a kid, was that common here? I ask because I am now a Kindergarten teacher and it is exhausting.

I started teaching for FCPS in the mid-90s and it was half day kindergarten at that point. I don’t remember when we switched over to full day.

It was early 2000"s

I think it was around 2010.

I was off by a year. It was 2011.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/back-to-school-in-northern-virginia/2011/09/02/gIQAt55b5J_story.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools needs to be open 5 days a week!

Allow me to translate I need daycare M-F for 7+ hours.

School has been 5 days a week since before you were born. Did you call it daycare back when you were in school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools needs to be open 5 days a week!

Allow me to translate I need daycare M-F for 7+ hours.

DP, but yes, working parents are going to need child care. And that's most parents these days.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the school day needs to just be restructured.

Elementary- no subject should be more than 45 mins in my opinion. Kids can’t focus for that long. Recess should be 45 mins to 1 hour. Currently kids start coming in at 9:05 and start leaving at 4:05. That is 7 hours at school.

Sample Schedule Elementary
1 hour for specials
30 min lunch
45 min recess
45 min for Math
30 mins Writing
30 mins Reading
15 mins Word Study
30 mins SS
30 mins Science
30 mins- intervention and Enrichment.

That would be 5.75 hours which is much better for kids.


Secondary- Get rid of block scheduling except for certain classes such as Science that has labs.

This would be so much better. The day could even be 6 hours because the 15 minutes could be counted in as arrival time. It takes 15 minutes to get kids in the doors as it is.

I also think it would cut down on behaviors because kids wouldn’t be left doing 40 mins of independent work.

[Anonymous]

I’m a SAHM and consider school to be a form of free childcare for myself.

[Anonymous]

Of course school is childcare. Of course parents have become accustomed to that and want it to continue. Of course they do. There is zero shame in that and it shouldn't be an insult to say parents want their kids in school so they can work 40 hours uninterrupted.

But the status quo clearly isn't working, so something needs to change. People are going to have to assume a little bit of discomfort and pay for a day of childcare or an extra hour of after care or higher taxes to lower class sizes or no more specials to create more core teachers or stop expecting replies to emails or conferences or ... something.

Because morale is lower than i have ever seen it in almost 20 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools needs to be open 5 days a week!

No!

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Anonymous wrote:They should just go back to early release Mondays.

They never should have taken that away to begin with. They did it because of selfish parents who view school as free daycare. The same type of parents who are causing all of the current problems. Some people should truly never have kids.

You mean parents who have to work to pay their bills and live in the area? Or the parents who work multiple jobs to afford living in the area and provide for their kids? Based on your comment, the only people who should have kids are people who can afford after school care or one parent who can stay at home.

I was in school in the 80’s, we went 5 days a week and had an early release day once a month. The idea that kids attend school 5 days a week for a full day is not exactly new or novel.

Remember at the start of the pandemic when teachers said to trust them, they could drastically reduce the amount of instruction our kids receive but everything would be a-ok because they're teachers and they can get kids back on track no problem? Doesn't seem like you made good on that promise, does it...while the rest of us busted our a*** to still do our jobs and now pick up the slack in teaching our kids too... I will never forget that.

Get therapy.

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Anonymous wrote:They should just go back to early release Mondays.

They never should have taken that away to begin with. They did it because of selfish parents who view school as free daycare. The same type of parents who are causing all of the current problems. Some people should truly never have kids.

You mean parents who have to work to pay their bills and live in the area? Or the parents who work multiple jobs to afford living in the area and provide for their kids? Based on your comment, the only people who should have kids are people who can afford after school care or one parent who can stay at home.

I was in school in the 80’s, we went 5 days a week and had an early release day once a month. The idea that kids attend school 5 days a week for a full day is not exactly new or novel.

Remember at the start of the pandemic when teachers said to trust them, they could drastically reduce the amount of instruction our kids receive but everything would be a-ok because they're teachers and they can get kids back on track no problem? Doesn't seem like you made good on that promise, does it...while the rest of us busted our a*** to still do our jobs and now pick up the slack in teaching our kids too... I will never forget that.

Jeez Pp get over it. I’m not a teacher nor do I think 4 day weeks are the answer but the pandemic remote school was 2.5 years ago. Move on.

Not to mention that barring extreme special needs (which she would have already mentioned if applicable), if PP had actually “busted their a** to pick up the slack in teaching their kids too” during the months of DL, THEIR KIDS WOULDN’T *NEED* TEACHERS TO GET THEM “BACK ON TRACK.”