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re: Acadia Parish to move to 4 day school week
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:24 am to BayouBengal23
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:24 am to BayouBengal23
Raised 3 kids in a system with a Tu-Fri school week. Hours were like 7:30-4:00.
For young ones, they either spend the day at Grandmas or you do the daycare thing which is a little pricey.
The older high schoolers usually have their extra curricular stuff / practice etc on Mondays.
Pros
- Less burned out kids
- Dr visits, appointments meetings etc are all scheduled on Mondays
- Three day weekends can actually happen every weekend instead of just MLK, Easter, Memorial Day, Labor Day etc. so trip planning is a plus.
- Less damn traffic on Mondays.
Cons
- Little ones have no good place to go if Grandma or Day Care is closed / sick etc. so kids sometimes come to work with parents on Mondays. Not a huge deal until it is.
- Less fortunates don’t get a 2 meals on Monday and the schools sometimes either deliver food or bus those kids to school to eat.
- Crime rate goes up on Sunday nights where it didn’t used to.
- Sunday Nights become party nights for the kids while parents have to go to bed to get ready for work.
- A lot more no shows for work on Mondays instead of Fridays.
Society would be better, in my opinion, to start letting businesses, etc close on Mondays too, but instead, everyone is scrambling to make 6-day work weeks again. Dr Offices, Lawyers Offices, Banks, etc seem to now be open on Saturdays more. That is a bit of a conflict when kids are off on Mondays.
For young ones, they either spend the day at Grandmas or you do the daycare thing which is a little pricey.
The older high schoolers usually have their extra curricular stuff / practice etc on Mondays.
Pros
- Less burned out kids
- Dr visits, appointments meetings etc are all scheduled on Mondays
- Three day weekends can actually happen every weekend instead of just MLK, Easter, Memorial Day, Labor Day etc. so trip planning is a plus.
- Less damn traffic on Mondays.
Cons
- Little ones have no good place to go if Grandma or Day Care is closed / sick etc. so kids sometimes come to work with parents on Mondays. Not a huge deal until it is.
- Less fortunates don’t get a 2 meals on Monday and the schools sometimes either deliver food or bus those kids to school to eat.
- Crime rate goes up on Sunday nights where it didn’t used to.
- Sunday Nights become party nights for the kids while parents have to go to bed to get ready for work.
- A lot more no shows for work on Mondays instead of Fridays.
Society would be better, in my opinion, to start letting businesses, etc close on Mondays too, but instead, everyone is scrambling to make 6-day work weeks again. Dr Offices, Lawyers Offices, Banks, etc seem to now be open on Saturdays more. That is a bit of a conflict when kids are off on Mondays.
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Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:25 am to jcaz
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Kids need to be in school 8-5 M-F.
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Get them ready for the real world
Sucks most you guys can't work 4-10 schedule.
It's great
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:26 am to Flyingtiger82
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Society would be better, in my opinion, to start letting businesses, etc close on Mondays too,
Wut? A great many professions can't just stop working. Would you expect employee compensation to remain the same while the businesses lose a day of revenue?
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:27 am to BayouBengal23
It wouldn’t be a bad idea if it was selectively targeted. Younger kids don’t need 5 days a week and that length of time. Older kids need the time and 5 days to prep for college in theory.
A universal execution across all ages is a bad idea.
A universal execution across all ages is a bad idea.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:28 am to LNCHBOX
quote:pay for a babysitter if you need one, or don't have kids if you have a problem doing that.
And frick all the parents that still work M-F
School =/= daycare
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:29 am to SuperSaint
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pay for a babysitter if you need one, or don't have kids if you have a problem doing that.
School =/= daycare
I already pay for the school with my tax dollars.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:29 am to gaetti15
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Sucks most you guys can't work 4-10 schedule. It's great
I am on it and it sucks. I am wfh again this Friday just because our other suppliers still work.
This post was edited on 1/27/23 at 9:31 am
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:31 am to BayouBengal23
quote:Sounds like we need to cut teacher pay 1 day a week.
Monday being a non-instructional day
quote:You are having a hard time teaching the curricula in 5 days but you think cramming it into 4 will be effective learning??
The goal would be to compress a normal, five-day work week or instructional day into four, extended days
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:31 am to Epic Cajun
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I would think there is a much larger portion of the population who has some sort of modified schedule on Friday rather than Monday (shortened day, no work on Friday, etc...).
I’ve always thought the perfect schedule all around would be Monday start at noon and Friday off at noon +\- an hour.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:36 am to LNCHBOX
Diesel for school buses, substitute pay, electricity cut for that extra day for 36 days.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:38 am to Areddishfish
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Why do we make 1st graders sit through class for 8 hours a day but college students sit through at most 4 hours a day?
cause universities are coddling the college students. Its fricking laughable.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:38 am to tigger4ever
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Diesel for school buses
Fair, but where will those funds go? Certainly not out of the system budget I bet
quote:
electricity cut for that extra day for 36 days.
Sounds to me like they use the facility on these days though. Don't see that going down
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:54 am to MasterDigger
The periods would probably be around 63 minutes in high school. You have more time to get into the subject matter and do activities than what is bring done now. As it is now, by the time you start class, check roll, get with students on what they missed the day they were absent, the class period is probably about 15 minutes gone.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:58 am to tigger4ever
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As it is now, by the time you start class, check roll, get with students on what they missed the day they were absent, the class period is probably about 15 minutes gone.
In high school?
Posted on 1/27/23 at 10:00 am to Napoleon
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This is going to be rough on parents.
It would benefit parents as occupations return to flexible schedules to work around the school issue.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 10:03 am to BayouBengal23
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The goal is not to reduce instructional time
This is a bad idea. This idea of instructional time show they do not know what they are doing. The problem is not instructional time in the modern school system, the time is learning time.
People have this mistaken assumption that if a teacher goes over "material", then if the students are there they are going to absorb it like a sponge. That is not how learning works.
Now if you want to reduce instruction time and use the extra day for study and remediation, you might be on to something.
We should get away from this agrarian model of school and spread learning throughout the entire year. Student would learn so much more than compressing the schedule for summer harvest.
This post was edited on 1/27/23 at 10:06 am
Posted on 1/27/23 at 10:07 am to LNCHBOX
I imagine it’s the same in elementary and junior high because they start changing classes in 3rd grade.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 10:07 am to MasterDigger
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You are having a hard time teaching the curricula in 5 days but you think cramming it into 4 will be effective learning??
Probably because so much of class time is spent doing administrative and social bullshite
Kids in Finland attend class 20 hours a week and faaar outpace US students.
We make shitty use of class time.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 10:08 am to RogerTheShrubber
I bet Finland doesn’t use common core either. That’s a whole different discussion.
This post was edited on 1/27/23 at 10:09 am
Posted on 1/27/23 at 10:09 am to BayouBengal23
The state with one of the worst education records in the United States going to 4 days in some places. This should help the state move up in the ranking. Louisiana the gift that just keeps on giving.
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