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Anonymous wrote:School personnel here --we are not babysitters.

I would love a 4-day week. My cousin has taught in 2 districts with 4 days weeks -- no burnout, everyone loves it.

You are responsible for your own children.

f you. actually the state mandates that I send my kid to school. if you don’t want to work a normal job and summers off isn’t enough for you, you can find a different job.

+1

We will be paying for learning loss from the shortened school days for years. MoCo had a 4 day week during the pandemic. Look at the numbers. The learning loss from the last few years is huge! HUGE!

School districts have shorten school days because they have no money, not because it is better for the students. Of course the teachers love it, but they already have their education. Kids do not need shorten school days.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grader is in private right now but I’d be ok with a 4 day week. Would give us an extra day for non academic pursuits.
I have heard this “ push” locally though…. Where are you seeing it discussed?

Most parents are working and can’t take the time off to pursue non academic options.

To be real, the non academic options would be youtube, tik tok and gaming for most kids.

Many parent would have to pay for an extra day of day care. It would be a nightmare for many!

I’m the PP. we both work shift work. I work 12s and my spouse works 4-midnight Mon-Fri. Spouse also has a side gig. We’re not rich but we do ok and have money for extras. School was not supposed to mimic a full day of work. We understand that, we pay a sitter for the days we need help because that’s what we need to do. DD doesn’t have money for college but we’ll help her if we can..I think financial help should be provided to those who need it as far as after care, or before care etc. I don’t think school should be assumed to be free childcare so people can work though.

Ummm, if the county can’t even pay teachers and has to shorten the work week, how do you suppose they will be able to provide financial help for aftercare That makes no sense.

Anonymous wrote:School personnel here --we are not babysitters.

I would love a 4-day week. My cousin has taught in 2 districts with 4 days weeks -- no burnout, everyone loves it.

You are responsible for your own children.

f you. actually the state mandates that I send my kid to school. if you don’t want to work a normal job and summers off isn’t enough for you, you can find a different job.

we’ll be a sh*thole country for sure if we decrease school hours on the heels of a disastrous school closure and plummeting test scores.

School personnel here --we are not babysitters.

I would love a 4-day week. My cousin has taught in 2 districts with 4 days weeks -- no burnout, everyone loves it.

You are responsible for your own children.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grader is in private right now but I’d be ok with a 4 day week. Would give us an extra day for non academic pursuits.
I have heard this “ push” locally though…. Where are you seeing it discussed?

Most parents are working and can’t take the time off to pursue non academic options.

To be real, the non academic options would be youtube, tik tok and gaming for most kids.

Many parent would have to pay for an extra day of day care. It would be a nightmare for many!

I’m the PP. we both work shift work. I work 12s and my spouse works 4-midnight Mon-Fri. Spouse also has a side gig. We’re not rich but we do ok and have money for extras. School was not supposed to mimic a full day of work. We understand that, we pay a sitter for the days we need help because that’s what we need to do. DD doesn’t have money for college but we’ll help her if we can..I think financial help should be provided to those who need it as far as after care, or before care etc. I don’t think school should be assumed to be free childcare so people can work though.

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grader is in private right now but I’d be ok with a 4 day week. Would give us an extra day for non academic pursuits.
I have heard this “ push” locally though…. Where are you seeing it discussed?

Most parents are working and can’t take the time off to pursue non academic options.

To be real, the non academic options would be youtube, tik tok and gaming for most kids.

Many parent would have to pay for an extra day of day care. It would be a nightmare for many!

It would be awful! All the kids would do is play video games, watch tik tok, watch YouTube, go to the mall and spend money on Starbucks. It would be like the shutdowns.

Hopefully, MoCo will not screw up the school budget so this becomes necessary.

Anonymous wrote:Please tell me about the movement to push for 4 day school week. I heard that several times in local media this week.

Where do you live?

i thought this was only happening in the flyover states with no money... definitely not the dmv

My 6th grader is in private right now but I’d be ok with a 4 day week. Would give us an extra day for non academic pursuits.
I have heard this “ push” locally though…. Where are you seeing it discussed?

It's terrible. My brother and his family live in a district that went to a 4-day school week due to budget shortfalls and it's miserable for working parents. No onsite care provided on the day off either -- you're on your own. Most of the families in this district have two working parents, and it's common for parents to do hourly and shift work. In some ways that can make it easier (you and your spouse just take different days off so that someone can be home with your kids on Friday when there is no school) but the reality is that it means families are stretched thin with less leisure time. Plus they have the same learning loss issues everyone has from Covid, so I know my brother and SIL also feel more pressure to be doing more academic enrichment with fewer days in the classroom and concerns about reading levels and math acquisition from a year of virtual and a poorly managed hybrid schedule.

It's an example of how we are just abandoning families. My SIL and I have talked about feeling like we had kids under false pretenses, as people who had children between 2014 and 2018. It never occurred to me when I chose to have kids that my kids might only go to school 4 days a week or that there would be literally no open daycare spots because they changed the regulations for daycares and it eliminated hundreds of available spaces in the neighborhood (which happened to us). Our school aftercare literally doubled in cost when they switched vendors. It feels like it only gets worse and never better.

Is this to push those of middle and upper middle class families to private? Because I absolutely would go over a 4 day week. Or would they be making the hours longer on the other days to make up for it?

It's because of lack of money. Not because it's good for students, teachers, schools, parents, the community, or anyone.

Please tell me about the movement to push for 4 day school week. I heard that several times in local media this week.