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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We need some drastic moves recruit and retain high quality teachers. One bold move would be to go to a 4-day school week for kids. Increase T-F by 30 minutes. Kids do async work on Monday’s. Teachers plan, have pd on Monday’s. That means less time away from kids T-F. There are other models to accomplish this.

Parents will have to decide whether they want 5 days of school with a crappy, unqualified teacher in a large class or figure out childcare one day a week and get a high quality teacher in a decent sized class.

https://www.edsurge.com/amp/news/2022-06-22-can-four-day-school-weeks-keep-teachers-from-leaving

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/19/texas-schools-four-day-weeks/amp/

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That’s ridiculous. Everyone clowned on all the states and districts that had to resort to this during the recession. A 4 day school week doesn’t solve the problems. What would solve long term staffing issues is increasing teacher pay across the board and especially for the hard to fill positions. And stop asking teachers to do more with less all the time. They shouldn’t have to give up their planning and admin time for bogus meetings and “professional development.” Just let them teach and treat them like real professionals, not micromanaged and underpaid babies. [/quote]

Thisxamillion

--a teacher[/quote]

This. They need better pay and they need to be able to teach. DRASTIC changes need to be made to special education. Every student having an IEP and expecting an individual, one on one, classroom experience with a teacher (who has 25+ kids that also need teaching) isn’t feasible. [/quote]

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