4 Day School Week

There are many benefits for schools to switch to a four day school week, but not all of the benefits are for students. There are “Sixty-two school districts, constituting 34% of the 178 school districts in Colorado” and those sixty two school districts “schedule 7.5 hours per day for 144 days of school instead of the normal six hours for 180 days” (Dam). By switching to a four day school week, students grades and their attendance were improved. The school saved money and since there is only four days in the school week students and teachers have an extra day to themselves.
Some schools don’t have a lot of money. What do schools do when they don’t have enough money to run the school? They start to cut programs. Switching to a four day weekend
In the state of Colorado, the “law requires school districts to schedule 1080 hours per year of instructional time for secondary schools and 990 instructional hours for elementary schools.” Switching to a four day school week changes the game for students. Instead of going to school for six hours a day for 180 days the schedule would be “7.5 hours per day for 144 days”(Dam). The seven and half hours per day would still equal the 1080 hours of education that students would need. It would take time for students and teachers to get used to the shorter schedule, but it would definitely be worth it in the
One of the big issues with having a four day school week is that the elementary school kid’s parents don’t want them staying home by themselves during the extra day off. The way to solve the problem is to run one of the schools during that one day off. The school district could only run half of the school building to save a little more money. All of the kids that would need daycare could go to that school for the day. It saves enough money for schools not to cut programs and the little kids would have somewhere to go. Even if people don’t think this a good idea, there is always a solution to the problem that they have with the big