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Schools across the U.S. are trying a 4-day week. Why? To retain teachers (www.npr.org)
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Many school districts around the U.S. are moving to a four-day school week to retain teachers. Districts that don't want to raise taxes to pay teachers more are using the long weekend as an incentive.

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Contagion - one district does it, then the neighboring district does it, too. There are entire clusters now in Texas, Missouri, Montana, where every district anywhere near you only offers four days of instruction. There is no other option. And when you get these cluster contagion effects, schools lose their competitive advantage.

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[–] o0joshua0o@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They should try paying them fairly and not treating them like garbage.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

"Mandatory firearms and EMT training, you say? Sorry, I wasn't listening. Got too much Conservative donor money to count." —Republicans

[–] Rogmonster@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What are working parents supposed to do? I don't have a 4 day work week, so now I'd have to pay for childcare?

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah. With that extra money you definitely have for just such an occasion. /s

[–] Newtra@pawb.social 0 points 10 months ago

With teacher hours, isn't that still often over 40 hours a week?

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 0 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Many school districts around the U.S. are moving to a four-day school week to retain teachers.

Districts that don't want to raise taxes to pay teachers more are using the long weekend as an incentive.

The original article contains 35 words, the summary contains 35 words. Saved 0%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] SirToxicAvenger@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago

so is it a 32 hour week or a 40 hour week? how does that impact after school activities (sports, etc)?