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One of the questions that I thought across would be "how would this impact schools?" Would schools be going to a 4 day week? Or would California be paying all
by shagie 5y ago
One of the questions that I thought across would be "how would this impact schools?"
Would schools be going to a 4 day week?
Or would California be paying all its teachers an extra 8h of overtime each week? How would that impact school budgets financed by property taxes... oh... wait... California.
Or would instruction hours be reduced to 6h/day? But the total required days and instructional minutes remains the same ( https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/pa/instructionaltimetable.asp https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/pa/instructionaltimetable.asp ) which means that the school year would be longer no matter which way its done to avoid having teachers need to get more (not saying they shouldn't, but the way this is proposal is phrased, it appears that they would need to be).
How would this impact private schools?
As many families effectively use school as child supervision for the work week, how would any changes to the duration a child is supervised at school impact a family that doesn't have adults working on the same schedule as the school (e.g. school went to a 4 day week with Fridays off and parents work a 4 day week with Mondays off)?
- dragonwriter 5y ago> One of the questions that I thought across would be "how would this impact schools?" Schools have mostly unionized faculty and staff, and this doesn't affect union contracts, so, aside from potentially increasing pressure on wages and working conditions from competitive options outside of schools, it wouldn't directly effect most of them.