More schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5
Associated Press— It’s a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. 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. “If everybody becomes a four-day school week,” she said, “that is no longer a recruitment strategy.” In some communities, a four-day week is better for families. The change also provides another day to work on family farms in the district with a little more than 50 students, Warren said, although he now “They’re making the shift to the four-day week because all the districts around them have adopted a four-day week,” he said. “Voters need to think about trade offs,” said Frank James Perrone, one of the study’s authors and an Indiana University assistant professor of educational leadership.
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