Aaron SEIA - 11/30/2023 21:26
And like I asked in a different reply. What happens when all the school's are 4 day? Then how do you recruit and retain? Did you modify the pay of everyone affected by working 20% less hours? Our plan only adds back roughly half the time lost by dropping a day.
AaronSEIA
If you look at holidays and teacher in service and days off during a 5 day week they are actually only going 4.5 days. So they don’t have to make up that many hours. Our school is 4 days week and actually puts in its schedule many more hours than are mandated. Some of that gets eaten by snow days and some is just extra. Teachers still get paid the same and the school is usually busy on Monday anyway with sports and FFA and teachers working randomly. Being a rural school the cost savings come from one less day of buses and food. After that there isn’t much. But because we are rural but have major metro area 30 minutes away it’s hard to get teachers because pay is better 30 minutes away. So a benefit is most teachers like 4 vs 5 and also smaller school. So it’s a selling point to keep or recruit
Ours goes tues-Friday. Most schools around are now switching.
Edited by NA5 12/1/2023 03:31
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