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[quote=Anonymous]A couple reasons listed for the fact that the rural districts don't seem much change from a 4-day-week: 1. The students skip anyway on Fridays to attend football games. 2. Ability to get better teachers in rural areas if it's just a 4-day week Also of note: "Hispanic students, who accounted for one out of every six rural students in this study, suffered much more from four-day weeks than white students did." To go back to what potentially happens in an urban district, best you can do seems to be suburban and small town: "By contrast, small town and suburban students who switched to four-day weeks were far worse off than other students in the state. Though it’s less common for small town and suburban schools to switch to four-days – they constitute only 30 percent of the four-day schools – their students really seemed to be harmed. For example, a quarter of the usual achievement gains that fifth graders typically make in a year disappeared." [/quote]
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