More and more schools across the US adopt 4-day learning weeks

[mystery-ak]

More and more schools across the US adopt 4-day learning weeks
While US schools may be adopting 3-day weekends to save costs, parents may face difficulty arranging child care on the extra class-free day
Associated Press
Published September 25, 2023 1:52pm EDT

It's a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano.

Like a growing number of students around the U.S, the Pruente children are on a four-day school schedule, a change instituted this fall by their district in Independence, Missouri.

To the kids, it's terrific. "I have a three-day break of school!" exclaimed Hudson.

But their mom, Brandi Pruente, who teaches French in a neighboring district in suburban Kansas City, is frustrated to find herself hunting for activities to keep her kids entertained and off electronics while she works five days a week.

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[bigheadfred]

They have had four day school weeks here for a couple of years now.

[DB]

The teacher's unions are just government jobs programs designed to minimize their work and maximize their pay/benefits.

[Kamaji]

[mountaineer]

Homeschool, please. If you have children or grandchildren, please get them out of government schools.

[Smokin Joe]

It would be nice if they actually had four days of learning Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and not four days of indoctrination.

But the unintended consequence is that one day of 'day care' a week will be gone for people trying to work a five day work week.

[mountaineer]

Not sure what working parents are supposed to do. Oh well, the kiddies don't belong to them, anyway.