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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d like to hear more about how a 4 day workweek has helped with student success.  The rest of the world has a 5 day school week.  Why should we be a guinea pig.  No thanks.[/quote]

and what do you think large classrooms or long term subs are doing to student success. Lol. You still don’t get it. [/quote]

Large classrooms are not necessarily a bag thing. I was in two 50+ student classes in late elementary school and I learned a lot. I loved school the most those two years. It was truly amazing. It was experimental. Other classes had 30 kids. My parents generationhad 50-60 kids in rooms that would be fire code violations today. I have classroom pictures of their classes in parochial grade school. My mom’s public HS had 5000 students and the school had a morning school and an afternoon school so only 2500 in the building at the time. My elementary school also had a track system so that only 3/4 of the students were in the building at a time. This also worked well to deal with over crowding without building schools unnecessarily. They did build some new ones quickly but could not keep up with growth. (They later went to a traditional calendar and parents were pissed that students were in trailers.)

BUT you have to have certain controls in place to make those things happen successfully.

My point is that out of the box ideas like 4 day weeks can work well if there is the support for it. The status quo can’t be maintained forever.[/quote]

Sorry, a class of 50+ is not going to work.[/quote]

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