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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's completely about money and trying to keep good teachers.  There is a district kind of near where I live that started 4 day weeks this year. Totally about teacher morale and trying to keep them.

My kid is in private and goes 4 1/2 days each week.  They have early release (2 hrs early) each Friday.  When they are in school they are learning 99% of the time.  There are also no random teacher workdays or one off religious holidays.  They do all their training and meetings Friday afternoons.   I didn't like it at first but now really like it.  Gives us an early start on the weekend without losing any of the learning.  There is no way this would fly in a public school.  
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The Nova public schools had half days once a week not long and.  Getting rid of it caused big problems for the teachers that have never been addressed properly.

Reinstating it would be great.  But a short day once a week for elementary school is very different than a 4 day school week.

If you can't see this, then I don't know what to tell you.[/quote]

Both Arlington and FCPS used to have one short day a week.  Schools often offered special afterschool enrichment that day that you could pay a reasonable rate for so it wasn't a problem for working parents and it was a great way for teacher work/planning to happen.  As a parent, I thought it was a good approach.  But a 4 day week is too little instruction time.[/quote]

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