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As a parent, I’m wondering whether a four day work week will carry over to the school week, too. When I was at school (this has stopped since) we had school on
by manmal 5y ago
As a parent, I’m wondering whether a four day work week will carry over to the school week, too. When I was at school (this has stopped since) we had school on Saturday even, for two years. This was not great! Nearly all the arguments I’ve seen pro four hour work week, would also apply to students.
- tobr 5y agoUnfortunately the purpose of school is for parents to have somewhere to store their children when they’re at work, so you can’t have a four-day school week until a four-day workweek is norm.
- paxys 5y agoI'm also willing to bet that most parents who get the extra day off would actually prefer that their kids stayed at school.
- manmal 5y agoI'm not so sure about that, but yeah, maybe. Where I live, teacher unions are very strong, so I don't think teachers would get left out of the four day work week for a long time.
- glandium 5y agoYou can't have a four-day school week until a normalized four-day workweek (everyone off on the same day).
- tobr 5y agoYou could maybe have a flex four-day school week and a flex four-day workweek though.
- prawn 5y agoIf the kids are off school, you have three-day weekends every week to do small trips. If the kids are still at school, parents have an extra day to go out to lunch, run errands, work on side hustles, clean the house, etc. Both are good options.