Pros and Cons of Four Day School Week Pro: Saving Money and Saving Jobs * Shortening the school week can address budget deficits and save teachers who would have to be laid off otherwise. In the case of Peach County‚ Georgia‚ the district either needed to shorten the school week or cut 39 teachers from the workforce in the 2009 to 2010 school year‚ according to Fox News. Shaving a day from the school week saves money without sacrificing teaching talent. This approach makes sense if a district
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there was a way for you to have four days of school every week‚ but still get in the state-required hours? The four-day school week plan is a plan that can satisfy your school’s needs. You might ask‚ “what is it‚ exactly?” The four-day school week plan is pretty self-explanatory‚ but it basically is a plan for a school district to only have school for four days a week‚ but with longer hours to compensate for the fifth day. Schools should use the four-day school week plan because it can lower outgoing
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as they’re walking into the school building. Most are used to seeing tired and unenergized students and teachers every day. No one likes being tired and unwilling to do anything on a daily basis‚ but there is a solution to this. This solution will be sure to bring smiles and energy to students and teachers alike. That solution is switching to a four-day school week. Colby High School should take this idea into consideration because by switching to a four-day school week‚ there would be less cramming
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Four day School Week Businesses have adapted a four day work week consisting of ten hours a day to conserve energy and resources. Our school is making the choice whether or not they want to take off Friday or Monday from school and just have a four day school week. If the school decided to do this each school day would be an extra two hours. The school would also have a lot of different opinions from the students so‚ before any decision is made to make the three day weekend the principle should ask
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English 101—Fall 2014 Mr. Cosper Essay 4: Synthesis Peer Review Day: December 4 Due Date: Monday‚ December 8 via Canvas. No late essays will be accepted. Length: 5-7 pages‚ plus Works Cited Page. Required Sources: 4-6. At least 2 of your sources must be academic‚ retrieved from the library’s databases or scholarly books. Choose two sources that promote a certain position on a topic and two that undermine or challenge this position. Start your search with the library’s catalogue of books and also
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If four day weeks were introduced to schools‚ the students and schools will both benefit. The schools will save a significant amount of money and students will excel academically and behavior will improve drastically. Whenever we have a student/teacher holiday‚ less students are absent and behave because they are looking forward to less days of the week. When students have less days to worry about‚ it will make them work harder so they can finish of the week sooner. According to document B‚ the cost
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Four day school weeks would be very beneficial in many different ways. The first is not having to worry about missing school days if they were planning on doing something fun with their families. Some kids start to get worried about having to miss school when they go on a trip with their families‚ and it would also mean that they wouldn’t have to make up homework for missing school that day. Having a four day school week would also benefit the teachers too. It would benefit them by giving them more
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savings‚ probably because each district still used the school building on the fifth day of the week for extracurricular activities or staff development” (2013). As this information was conducted the financial savings on the school district has saved the school tons of money because of the four-day school week and will better the city’s economic status. Students can possibly have a better attendance due to compromising with the four-day school week. Students miss Friday and Monday due to wanting to
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Religious and Ethnic Discrimination Religious Group: Buddhism Buddhists are different from most other religions and many ways‚ but one difference stands out above the others. Buddhism does not worship a specific god. Many people argue that Buddhism is more a philosophy than a religion. The main objective of Buddhist followers is enlightenment and/or liberation from Samsara (the wheel of life) instead of going to a heaven (Eng‚ 2013). The Dalai Lama‚ the leader of the Buddhist religion
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Ada Vargas 9/12/12 ENGL 111-D40 Argumentative essay Sex education in high schools High schools should provide better sexual education. Prevention is better than cure. The federal government should provide more information in schools and required sex education in the first year of high school. This is important because there are a lot of sexually transmitted diseases‚ teenage pregnancy‚ and teen abortions. Boskey (2011) stated that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are “some of the most difficult
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