A Four Day School Week

In order to save money, a rural school district in Minnesota has opted for a four day school week, running Tuesday to Friday. Now comes the hard part.... [snip]

First, knocking off Mondays not only creates a four day school week, but also makes every weekend a long weekend. The question is what will students and teachers do with the extra time? Needless to say, the students will be more than willing to claim every Monday is a holiday -- thus no work will be necessary...

[wonderful: the entire article, written by a teacher, address the problems this causes for teachers (the employees) and the students (the product) - not one word about the difficulties this causes for most parents (the customers - who weren't consulted on this drastic change). typical. Can you imagine a private school pulling this stunt without the pre-approval of parents? vouchers.]

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