No More Mondays. Colorado School District Moves to 4 Day Weeks

[Chiron]

Can we get some 4 day week action for public sector jobs?! Fridays are so unproductive.

Schools should be shortening summer break to 8 weeks and using 8 class block scheduling for Monday-Thursday with Friday being optional elective/college and career planning day

 

[Deleted member 42060]

4 days at school
1 day “homeschool”

 

[nikekid6]

the day off is a life lesson in its self.. independence 101

 

[|A-Man|]

Mondays were always pretty terrible for me when it came to school and work.

I'd welcome this but there really needs to be a combination of how Europeans approach the summer break and vacations and how the Japanese use to have kids go to school 6 days a week in this instance I'd add Saturday as a school day while keeping mondays off.

 

[blastercombo]

Mondays were always pretty terrible for me when it came to school and work.

I'd welcome this but there really needs to be a combination of how Europeans approach the summer break and vacations and how the Japanese use to have kids go to school 6 days a week in this instance I'd add Saturday as a school day while keeping mondays off.

So won’t Tuesday be just as bad?

 

[$tatus $ymbol]

And the jobs people have to go to??

Dawg I would go slap the **** outta someone in local government

 

[blastercombo]

Dawg I would go slap the **** outta someone in local government

Semi kidding but the stay at home mom suicide rate is and to rise

 

[htg designs]

The should make work 4 days a week to and give the same pay man. I work 4 days a week currently. That work life balance is legit man. Happier people make happier employees and more efficient workers.

 

[frshstunna]

Should be 4 day school and work weeks ...just purely for the kids tho, this is great ...the 5 day school schedule is just a pipeline to continue putting out 5 day work week adult workers

 

[datznasty]

Psssh, A lot of districts in Oklahoma been on 4 day weeks. Hell, we even hiring anybody and their mom who is willing to take the job, give a **** if you have a degree or what it was in. You want to deal with this **** and these bad *** kids for this amount of money? You're hired!

 

[|A-Man|]

So won’t Tuesday be just as bad?

Nah

There's just something about this draining monotonous routine for anyone that works any sort of non-creative repittive job or finds themselves doing tasks in a pattern over and over Mon-fri.

Mondays just feel different. Specifically if you get one off. What's showing on tv is different. Who's at home, who you see on the streets or when you go out during the day.

Pretty sure there's something about having those 2 days off and that feeling of going to sleep that Sunday just to wake up to a Monday where you have to work.

 

[frshstunna]

Yea Monday’s are the worst

 

[PRIME]

You’d be mad why? Cuz you have to see your kid more often?

Because the school district changed to 4 days, not your job

How are you going to see your kid if you gotta work on monday?


If I were a kid tho, I'd legit prefer they do away with homework than give me a 3rd weekend day. Yeah no school mondays is cool, but no ****ing homework is cooler

 

[Based Jesus]

Teachers out here giving the box to every ***** with a chin hair, 4 day weeks and now this


We was born too early fams

 

[shogun]

Jealous. My teachers gave homework almost every damn night. Bringing the textbooks home was a pain and barely fit all of them into my bookbag. So many of us had back problems.

 

[PRIME]

Teachers out here giving the box to every ***** with a chin hair, 4 day weeks and now this


We was born too early fams

Where the **** was this 1994-2006?

 

[blastercombo]

Where the **** was this 1994-2006?

We were busy being challenged and smart. These kids need more time to be dumb

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[Blake P]

I could see that no homework thing working in grades K-5, but those kids are gonna be shook when they get to middle school and be ready to drop out instantly once they hit HS.

 

[PRIME]

We were busy being challenged and smart. These kids need more time to be dumb

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Like the old heads used to say "An idle mind is the devils playground"

This goes hand in hand with the is social media bad for kids thread

Thats all they'll be doing without homework

 

[mrd1]

I could see that no homework thing working in grades K-5, but those kids are gonna be shook when they get to middle school and be ready to drop out instantly once they hit HS.

5th grade teacher here.

lol I give hella homework.

 

[Blake P]

5th grade teacher here.

lol I give hella homework.

Unless you have aides who do your grading, doesn't giving lots of homework just mean you end up giving yourself more homework?

 

[mrd1]

Good point. Blessed to have a few parent volunteers, but I do take a lot of work home. Comes with the job, though. ‍‍