Why School Should Only Be 4 Days A Week
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2024
- Being at school five days a week can be very draining for students of all ages. Find out how some school districts are changing this norm.
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The Advantages of a Four Day School Week
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“A four-day school week is a relatively new and innovative idea gaining popularity with students and teacher across the United States. For some, the advantages of attending school only four days per week far outweigh the potential disadvantages.”
The Effect a Four-Day School Week Has on Teachers and Students
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“What if instead of a five-day week, school districts switched to a four-day week? A concept dating back to the 1930’s, economic hardships now have districts examining and implementing this option more than ever before.”
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school just needs to not be shit and not 90% pointless
+daniel117100
You know a lot of the things is college can be taught in HS aside from the really complicated Fields.
+akimboDEEZ But you aren't taught how to socialise in HS
Dude for real, like I get we need to learn the basics but I'm never gonna stop and think about what the circumference of a circle is in a real life situation.
+daniel117100 AGREED
King for a Day Well if you want to make millions then that is something you will need to apply in engineering for example but if u don't want to do that then I agree it is pointless
If sleep is really good for the brain, then why is it not permitted in school?
+The Realest Somali lol
Congrats!!! This is the first RUclips comment I have EVER laughed at!
+The Realest Somali Because you are there for just a limited amount of time.
In japan it is i belive
+The Realest Somali There is a time and a place for everything.
I couldn't care less about going to school for 5 days out of the week. I wish school would teach me things that are interesting and worth something in the future.
Yes! Why can't they teach us something usefull
+Trolling TooGoddamnHardNiggaBitch My school actually has a class like that. Financial Math. One of the only classes I actually give a damn about
+ethan philpot i think its called economics and im taking it this year
+Sxcred Yeah, school really needs to be about 20% cooler!
+Sxcred
Though, to be fair, some things you're taught in school are essential. Regardless, of if you're going to like it.
One year in high school, I got stuck in an English class where a majority of the students kept spelling, " 'Cause" as "Cos". -_-
Why don't all the countries just start investing into the development and education instead of war...
+Viking Arhold trust me. We Finns tried it. didn't work.
***** it still sucks.
+Exde Finland has an international reputation for having some of the best primary and secondary education in the world (whereas the US has a reputation for having relatively poor primary/secondary education but exceptionally excellent higher education). Can you expand on why you think Finnish education is a failure?
Can I get a, "Hell Yeah!"?!
+Viking Arhold Because the "power of knowledge" isn't real to them. They sure can see the power in a nuclear warhead opposed to a politically literate gen pop.
My problem wasn't the length of the week but the repetition of what was being taught. We'd be taught a topic, practice it, I'd have it learned, then we would repeat it for a week because other people didn't pick it up yet. I skipped a lot of school and still did good on tests and finals.
That's why we need smaller classrooms with teachers capable of teaching 5-10 students per class.
+huy211 but the funding ;( THANKS ARNOLD
+huy211 all my classes have 4 people including me :)
+Hircine lucky. My school is joining with another school, in one building. that could probably fit about 800 people in normally. but they're going to try and fit about 1400 students in there. so I will probably end up in a class with about 40 people minimum
+Adrian Bard
Easy, you reply back saying
"THIS IS THE WORK OF THE PATRIARCHY, THE MALE DOMINATED SOCIETY HAVE OPPRESSED WOMEN FOR TOO LONG! WE MUST DISMANTLE THIS TYRANNY"
and drive off flipping off every guy you see
I saw the title and said to myself "YES!"
and than you realized that your school is probably never going to do that.
S.Italy Romano Vargas
...yeh...i ma go cri now...
+│Volkenn│ 😭
+S.Italy Romano Vargas Haha my school is doing 4day week
+S.Italy Romano Vargas lmao I understood that because it was said here and then in Assassin's Creed 2.
Love that game.
Wish my school was only 4 days a week o.o
+Nillia101 No i won't.
Say some stupid shit like that again bitch
Rude
do you want 10 hour school days
when do you start the school day and when do you finish it
i really want to know so please reply to me
My school doesn't have school on Fridays, they reserve it for rehearsals and detentions... It's pretty cool
that must be cool if you don't have detention haha
also-- |-/
lucky
how about we push school back an hour or so. No one can sleep early at night, and no one wants to wake up early so people are tired in class
+Millad Bahrami Some schools already start later in the day. Instead of maybe school starting around 7:20, it now starts around 8:20. The biggest picture is pretty much the pros and cons of pushing back the starting time for school. How it affects the people that live in that city/area. Though, pushing back school isn't something I am for since children and teens pretty much spend a lot of time up late doing whatever. It may help improve students to pay more attention in class rather than doze off. This is just my opinion but it's whatever you want to believe.
+Millad Bahrami In Canada, most schools in Ontario start at 8:30 which is still way early. School starting at 7:20 is unimaginable to my 12 year old past.
+Neo Le 7:20? Insane. Elementary started at 8:30, middle and high school at 9. East coast of Canada. The times it starts in some stats is... wow. Just how long are your days then? Elementary was out by like 2:30. Middle a little after 3 and high school 3:23.
+Millad Bahrami I start school at 9, leave at 2 and get Mondays off. :3
Victor Moniz Where I lived, school started at 7.20 and ended at around 1.45 P.M.
And they need to set a hard limit on the maximum amount of homework a school can assign
YES
I'm sick of either pulling all nighters or staying up until 5 am to get my work done
Schools useless
@@theprodigy9617 Not entirely. It's just having a vast majority of its potential wasted. School could be immensely useful
@@goldenapplesaga5446 so wasting 12+years of your life so you can learn 1 useful thing you can look up online and learn in 3 days max of fine mk
i would go to school 7 days a week if they kept me interesting in what i was learning.
same but in my school all they teach is Making us Algorithm
I only go to school 5 days a week and I live in Florida so during hurricane season when it's the strongest we only have 4 days of school. I love the weekends cause I'm not as stressed as I usually am. Besides I hate most of my classes the only keeping me together is French class.
Same
FACTS
But then parents can't palm their kids off for an extra day while they have their affairs and go shopping
They're problems not ours
+Dark Legend their*
+Mayron Sting lolol
+Steve Ozone I think the work week should be reduced with pay to give the parents a break.
Or work.....
You know why 4 days of school a week is better? Cuz it's less than 5.
@Angel S im from the future and thats true
poor students may miss out on meals the school would otherwise provide....
like schools are providing good meals anyways...............
+Supra Kooper food is food for the poor
Austin Pinheiro no. not really. bad food is still bad food regardless of how much money you make
+Supra Kooper Okay.. how does that disprove his argument for saying that food is food for the poor? Let us put you in a scenario, regardless of how unlikely it is. You have little to no money, and can hardly afford any form of food and drink for yourself. You also have a child to raise, and by law, has to go to school. Now, is your child going to not eat the lunch food because it is bad and starve themselves, or are they going to eat the food, regardless of how bad it is, because FOOD IS FOOD?
its not THAAAt bad come on
Austin Pinheiro it actually is. many children refuse to eat food at lunch strictly due to how horrendous the food has become
I wouldn't even mind going to school everyday if they could teach us something that is interesting and ACTUALLY FUCKING USEFUL IN LIFE.
Trust me, when you're older, you'll realize how useful it was.
I loved the fact that you tried to avoid gender stereotypes by showing boys dancing ballet and girls playing football ❤❤
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+ConvBio but that is a stereotype you bigot >:(
+ConvBio But the very 'camp' looking boy doing ballet just created a switch to a different stereotype.
Males and females are different. Genetically and physically. We aren't supposed to be equal and do the same things.
One thing they didn't mention was how this affected the parents. Most people work a five-day work week, which means that their kids having a four-day school week means they'd need someone to babysit the extra day.
Fedora Lord Good point.
+Shawn Ravenfire who over 7 year old needs a babysitter? :D
+Exde I think something under 11 should be looked after...
+Shawn Ravenfire Not to mention friends who either don't work or have children old enough to look after others.
More jobs!
they need to invest more in schools and less in war and stupid stuff, also we learn very pointlesss things in school, and most of students here atleast are all tired of school, teachers don't even know basic geography here in Belgium, schools are horrible here
***** In belgium there are like 2 private schools but they never get subsides so they're freaking exspensive
***** true, education here is horrible, almost everyone is a bit deppresed and my french teacher thinks the mount everest is in america... lol and my history teacher thinks the wall of china goes around ALL of china
Bro that's every country
+Jesus Fucking Christ Here in Israel, we actually learn really useful things in school! It's quite fun.
like how the name Jesus fucking Christ blend in with the comments
Ugh i hate when the teacher has to reteach shit i learned last year because 90% of kids here forgot it. like how bout move me on at the same time, that'd be great.
when you think about what does that say about the subject if the kids forgotten it. your brain doesnt just dump things for no reason. it drops whatever it considers to be unnecessary to you.
trying to hammer it in is a lost cause when you stubbornly keep pulling no sells.
Can we get rid of homework too?
How about online school?
+Ludwig Spiegel What about it?
Jimmy Strudel I'm doing an online course myself, Java OCP 7, it's handy enough, though unfortunately, unlike you, I'm not working.
Kinda hard to find a job where I live with the current job climate in Ireland. Which is why I'm still doing full time education.
That said, I don't know how bringing up online education comes into play regarding my question in my OP.
+Jimmy Strudel You're probably right about what Ludwig was saying, though when I said homework, I meant the crap teachers give you for you to do at home that may or may not get corrected the next day or time you have that class.
So you can see my confusion in regards to bringing it up in the first place.
A part from that, doing online education away from home, is it part time education?
I figured one of the main allures to online education is the ease of doing it at home.
Lol.. at my school it works like this: No homework, No school on Fridays and you go at your speed. (we each have our individual courses).
I think a four day week of learning is good, as long as there are activities on the fifth day that can be chosen (and that are free). Not all households can afford to have the child(ren) at home for an extra day. This day of fun activities is also good for the outlook on school: if there are fun things associated with going to school, the kids are probably less resentful of studying.
School should be
P.E: Actually learning how to excerise and play FUN sports
ela: how to buy a house and get a job
history: learn how to vote
math: how to do taxes
science: how to be safe n shit instead of learning how to pull apart a mouse
lunch: REAL FOOD
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Yes bitch
+Advanced Potato Or how to buy a house, how to vote, all sorts of PRACTICAL life skills, too!
Music: when you're bored and there's no power.
Jay
Ela: you have to learn how to read first
History: don’t know your history you’re bound to repeat it
Math: learn how to multiply, add, subtract and divide first
Science: learn the fundamentals that influence behavior
Lunch: what’s the shit you eat when you’re not in school
We wont even have lunch here
Well in France they used to have a 5 day week, they just had Wednesday off and went to school on Saturday. This is no longer the case, in France now all the schools have the regular 5 day setup we use in America, except they usually have a half day on Wednesdays.
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Her neck is unnaturally long...
Keshaire!!! XD
jesus christ I didn't notice that, now it can't be unseen
She probably gives the best suck of all time
OMG SHE LOOK LIKE A GIRAFFE
now that you say that I literally can’t unsee it
Work should be 4 days a week
I have a 4 day school week with longer days. I can tell you that I have witnessed pretty much everything said in this video. I'm a senior in high school, and we've done the 4 day school week for I think 6 years now. Our school switched to the 4 day school week to save money, saw that test scores were staying the same, then decided to keep the 4 day school week.
If any of you are wondering how much nicer it is for students, it's insane how much of a difference one day can do.
Ofc they go and make it 4 days... I just graduated
Discard the current model education as a whole and design a new one for the 21 century.
There is no point on changing minor parts in a blown archaic engine..
I like that in the pic they put boys doing ballet and girls playing soccer. 👌
still waiting the day that i will use confusing math formulas in irl
in irl?
+E SC complicated math problems might not exactly apply on your day to day life, however, it does improve your analytical skills.
+Michael Echeverria ikr know right?
A lot of those skills are needed for engineering, but there are still a lot of pointless ones that are unneeded ever, engineer or not.
+Trolling TooGoddamnHardNiggaBitch no. that eould require us to decide which career field to go into in middle school. most juniors in highschool dont have a clue what they want to do yet
My school:
Starts in mid August and ends in late May
Starts at 8:15 and ends at 3:30
Gets a week and a half off for Christmas, two days for Thanksgiving and Three days for Easter.
Is required to have a semester final in every class
Has a three minute passing period and a half hour for lunch
Is super cheap and strict
Has a dress code that dictates everything but socks
Has a stupidly short rule on guys hair length
Has 80's cameras literally everywhere
Is so undersized the councillor's office is literally a closet
Is just a terrible place to be in general
Kill me for saying this but I honestly wish that North America would change summer holidays. I really don't like a whole 2 months in a row off. It messes with my academics, my sleep schedule, my social life, even my eating habits. I'd much prefer it if there was a 2 week break every 2 months or so. The same amount of time off, just spread out more. My class did a whole debate on this and I was the ONLY person to say yes to this. Do any other students agree with me or am I still the only one? Also, I'd like having school 4 days a week. (Unless the school day starts earlier not ending later then no thank you) I like being in school, it's nice to be out of the house.
+Susan Heslop (Je Suis un Ananas) lol
That's actually really interesting because in Australia a lot of people (at least at my school) wish that our holidays could be like America where you get like 2-3months off. While here, we get like 2 wks off between every term (approx 3 months) and 6 weeks off between the end of the school year and the start. So I guess we just want what we dont have? ahaha :)
That's actually really interesting because in Australia a lot of people (at least at my school) wish that our holidays could be like America where you get like 2-3months off. While here, we get like 2 wks off between every term (approx 3 months) and 6 weeks off between the end of the school year and the start. So I guess we just want what we dont have? ahaha :)
I am studying at the Danish Technical University, and I only have lectures 3 days a week. Oh and btw: In Denmark we get paid to go to school, which is free.
I really appreciate that you had boys in the ballet shot and girls in the soccer short :)
As a person with Anxiety and on and off Depression, a four day week sounds amazing, preferably Wednesday as the missing day. Being in honors classes along with all my after school activities is time consuming and stressful. Having an extra day in the week to get things done would be extremely beneficial to my mental health and to my grades. I wouldn't feel like I'm drowning at the end of every week.
I think it should be on wednesday because 2 days school rest 2 days shool rest for 2 days
How about we just cut our military budget?
I was doing an essay and these facts helped me thank you
I've registered for different schedules each semester to test this for myself. I've tried from 3 days of 6+hours each to 6 days of 1.5 hours each. Then some condensed midday summer classes and nighttime winter classes. They all have pros and cons, but the best one for me was the 4 day per week one.
School needs to only be open 4 days a week, have little to no homework, start later but end at the same time or earlier, bring back naptime, have frequent breaks, actually teach important things in life, like economics, and not how to find the value of a slope's X, and provide a good environment for all. Then students will actually want to go to school to learn, and will significantly increase student performance.
I have an idea. Cut out p.e. Its literally the most pointless thing i have ever done
Tessa Red Lmao I know right
Unless you don’t play a sport or workout on your own it does help you have some exercise
Especcialy for someone with asthma, like what am I supposed to do there, go to the hospital because I had an asthma attack?
I live in Colorado, I'm in High school and we get out early on every other Friday's
This year I came back from summer and I had totally forgotten everything from the year before. You would think the teacher would have taken at least a week to go over the things last year. But no, my teacher literally said "hope you remember everything, we won't be going over it"
No. 5 days a week for high school and middle school students is a must but make it start at 8:30 to 10:30AM so kids can get more sleep and *DEFINITELY ABOLISH HOMEWORK FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND MOVE IT TO LONGER DURATION (MORE HOURS IN THE CLASSROOM) AND LESS BLOCK SCHEDULE CLASSES (ONLY 3-4 CLASSES WITHIN TWO DAYS THAT THE KIDS ACTUALLY WANT TO TAKE AND IS VITAL TO THEIR FUTURES) AND I PROMISE YOU - kids will come out more educated in this country.*
+Borna Vaezi better idea, make practical classes that teach what is guaranteed to be used after school mandatory and put test-taking ability on the backburner with those higher classes reduced to electives, allowing only people that have an interest in these classes to take them so we'll have more competent people in these fields. This will also make it easier to get a job after school because hiring value of a high school diploma will be raised and look better than it does now in terms of gauging practical skill.
killer13324 Yes. Completely agreed. I say implement that idea with the idea of mine and let's fix our education system :D xD
4 days a week is for all high and middle schools
School 4 days a week= 209 days a year.
we should have 60 days holidays. 209-60=149 days.
One day at school should be 4 hours from 11:30-4:15 (this is included free time between classes and eating) 119*4=596 hours of school every year, that would be good :) and does this lead to bad perfermance at school? No! In Finland they have only 600 hours of school every year, thats the country with fewest hours of school and they are one of the best in school in the world!
My school kind of follows a 4-day week. I attend a regular public high school in the mornings (5 days a week), but a technical high school for medical training in the afternoons for only 4 days a week. I've only been on this schedule for a couple of weeks, but I've found it's actually really nice, even though I'm spending an hour more in the classroom for those 4 days. We get a lot more enrichment time, one on one time with the teacher, and even work time to finish homework and projects to counteract the extra time spent at school. I've noticed that I feel much less tired and stressed than when I went to school 5 full days a week.
My school currently does this and honestly it is very beneficial. The three day weekends allow me to rest and catch up on any extra work I may have been lagging behind on, and I know that when I'm at school I better be working because I only am actually there for 4 days out of the week.
OK WE NEED A 4 DAY SCHOOL WEEK
Sometimes I even wished for school to be only 3 days a week,Our teachers are giving us too much homework...
i remember in Hawaii during the recession back in 09, they took out most of the Fridays to save money and avoid laying off staff. it was pretty awesome.
I have school once a week as full time. awesome sauce. more time to comprehend the material and more time from not spending useless time on getting to school, paying gas, waiting for class, deal with more pauses, and so forth. most classes force you to learn the material from online from my own past experience.
i call de police dis women has red hair be careful
+Drew P. Balls "She's a witch!" -Catholic church in the XIV-XV centuries
I start 6th form tomorrow ;_;
+Av3rage_Gamer Haha have fun. One of my friends is going on to uni on the 20th and I have known him for years. It's crazy :D I start year 10 tomorrow.
6th form is much better than all other years I've been in so far! :D
Connor M.A.C I'm sure it is. You can finally study only the subjects you want and need for the first time in your school life.
wtf is that
What?
I've said for a long time that a 4 day school week while reducing summer vacation and cutting the school on those ridiculous holidays we usually have off would be fantastic, summer is too long anyways and here in Eastern Canada if we have a bad snowstorm like we did the last 2 years, we can miss a lot of school days which really sucks at the end of the year when we run out of time for missing over a week of school.
I went to a high school where Friday was a half day with extracurricular classes. One of the benefits was that they could do pep rallies and other special activities without interrupting academic classes.
the intro is stupid. Summer is a season. If in a school it was always summer you should be speaking about schools in countries in the middle of the world
*facepalms*
She means summer break...
Are you fucking dumb?
I basically get 4 days of school... but with 1 day of Latin... I get a whole schoolday of Latin a week... fml
Where do you go to school?
+Wouter Damen why? Latin is a dead language
+Hircine It should be taught though. Based of Romance languages as well as medical,scientific,and legal terminologies. Would help later on
+Ludwig Spiegel meant to say Latin is the base for Romance languages. Can't trust my iPhone.
+Wouter Damen
I would love to learn Latin! :D
But, the only options I ever got were French and Spanish.
And I didn't know I had a choice, so I got placed in French class.
I still get 1-2 hours to sleep, 5 days of school, and this year they added 30 minutes to school and made our agenda's smaller and less organized so it's hard to know how small i have to write... i was forced to take this class so that class forced me to write in my agenda, take notes (even though i remember everything)
We've been lowering the number of school days for decades now and our scholastic level has actually been going down. Most countries that use a shorter day but longer week get better benefits. Longer school days only work if you actually do go in depth into the material. In other countries this is accomplished in less time and shorter days through better teaching methods and cram schools for those with learning deficits. While it is true changing from a two day to three day weekend does not result in much learning loss, the fact that we are one of the few countries with a long summer break does. Also, as presented in the video France gives Wednesday the day in the middle of the week off and typically has government funded nurseries or even school led field trips on Wednesday's so the parents need not take off work and learning loss is prevented. Here in the U.S. where we have no parental leave, mostly private day-care and a five day work week we would be turning these kids into latch key kids for that day-off. It would be better to have a half day of intensive schooling and start infants(4 to 8 yrs) off with a four day week, move to a five day week with juveniles(9 to 12), and a six day week for adolescents(13 to 16) then move back to a four day week but a whole day instead of half a day for young adults(17 to 20). In other words go to a old-style British system of primary school, middle school, preparatory school and finishing school.
Why don't we just abolish school if it's so bad. First it started "too early", then schools gave "too much homework", now school weeks are "too long" geeze, what's next? it's getting ridiculous.
Kids need to learn to handle Long work weeks, and more work and early mornings, because when they grow up into the work force, they're going to have to deal with those things, just like Dress codes in schools help to teach kids to dress appropriately in a professional setting. this is ridiculous, they're slowly "recommending" that parents and teachers stop trying to prepare children for adulthood, even though that's the most important part of their jobs.
+SoganaxSaeki maybe adulthood being soo shitty is the real problem
+GheyForGames No, no it's not. working is good, and to make more money and accomplish more, you have to work harder. That's a good thing. We live in a society where everyone want the world to revolve around them and their wants and needs, but society can't properly function that way, both people and society need set rules, routine and order, it helps our society, and our brains function properly. The world cannot meet absolutely everyone's needs and wants entirely and people need to learn to do things that they sometimes don't want to, because the world works in a give and take system, you reap what you sow, you get what you give, etc, etc, etc and if you want extra, you have to GIVE extra, not just demand it and expect to get what you want.
Most important reason why kids are still dropped to school even though it's bad:
1) The government needs a place to put kids so that their parents can work and pay taxes.
2) Kids need to learn to get jobs when they're adults
Nope just joking :P 2) should be 1) and 1) should be 2)
Kuya Dan school isn't bad, kids need to learn and they need to be around other kids so they can learn how to be social and how to behave around others. I feel like i'm talking to a couple of 12 year olds who don't like school. To get a good job, you need an education and social skills, now more than ever, and that is why school is important. Good jobs require early starts, long hours and long work weeks, because you actually have to EARN the money you make. I know the media makes it seem like just anyone can become a superstar or a CEO, but that's not true (unless you have a millionaire parent who can either buy the position for you, or hand it down to you). Life doesn't work that way. For all of us normal, "poor" people, we have to know what we're doing and work hard and make sacrifices to get where we want to be in life, and school gives us the education to know what we're doing, but without determination, hard work and sacrifice, we cannot get there, and if someone isn't willing to go the extra mile and work hard, they don't deserve to make all the money that comes with the position they want. Simple as that.
SoganaxSaeki Oh sorry for commenting that 'school is bad' when I actually think of it being the latter.
School Education is very important and coming from a developing country I know how many unfortunate people who would do anything (even work alongside studying) to get PRIMARY education. A few Elderly people even went back to primary school as it's their dream to finish primary education as poverty prevented them from doing this years before.
Due to this, I highly value school and want to learn.
My initial comment was merely a joke that 'school is bad' and said the reason was that the government is more concerned at freeing up parents to work rather than giving young people the education required. It wasn't ment to reflect my views on Education but I can see why you may think of this.
However, there are still some problems and the largest of which being that some teachers are teaching students to past tests rather than teaching them to form an understanding on the subject being taught. This isn't good in my opinion. I now live in the UK and the government is reducing coursework and increasing tests which isn't good.
Wow, surprised my school system in the middle of nowhere, Chattooga Co, GA, was mentioned in DNews!
Unfortunately, it was a 5 day school week when I attended.
GO SAGE INTERNATIONAL!!!!! That's where I go for my high-school. If people are wanting a student perspective of a four day week, here it is:
A four day week feels like an improvement from five days due to not having that 'hump day' where you have no motivation to continue through the week. When it's Tuesday or Wednesday my morale to get through the week is that I don't have to deal with school on Friday. It makes it easier to not dread going to school, but actually excited to go and continue learning.
I know as a student, who has a four day school week, that I have 'x' amount of time to get my work done, but I get an extra day on the weekend to complete it while also having Fridays to do other activities. My school is able to pack the same amount of information you would learn in a five day week in a four day week. That helps the students with not having to deal with another day of grinding through school, but it feels like we are making progress with our learning faster compared to schools who take five days to teach the information.
In total, four day school weeks is beneficial for both the students and teachers to improve them selves as members of education and I believe it is something for all school districts to highly consider as an educational option.
I go to a charter school and we have a 5 day week, but Friday's are half days. We also have a 2 week break in the fall and a 2 week break in the spring, however summer vacation is only about 2 months.
In the Netherlands elementary schools have wednesday afternoons off and the first and second years (4 and 5 year olds) have fridays off every couple of weeks. A big issue with giving kids days off is that working parents would have to take extra days off or pay for daycare.
I remember a kid in my auto tech class asking the teacher which car companies built the best cars. The teacher replied, "well... it'll have to depend, is it on a Monday or Friday." It's either people who don't want to go to work, gets there, and "just gets the job done"; or it's either people who gets there and just wants get to off already and rushes everything they do to get off.
I went to a French school in the U.S. The earliest we ended school was 4 pm and the latest was around 6 pm.
Sent this to the superintendent, thanks.
i work at a vet clinic. we use to have 2 half days and Sundays off. due to resent changes we now have 1 half day and Sundays off. everyone's all pissed off since that happen. 2 people who worked there 10 yrs quit due to stress within 6 months. we're due to have a meeting an discuss closing early like we use to, I'm gonna use this info to help convince them to close Again. :)
Great video! :) I actually think that might be a great idea!
Also, vacation should be spread out. I'm Germany, summer, winter, spring, and fall all have equal lengths of break time. They don't forget as much and don't have to wait a long time until another break.
My old school had half days on fridays, I think for budget issues. If you did extra science or other extra classes they were often held on friday afternoons
I wish this was me. But I'm proud how I came up so it's nice to hear how this benefitting children these days.
I take a advance courses and definitely needs this, frkin 6 homeworks a day and due the next day?? and this is just the beginning of the month! I can see the argument "preparing you for the real world or for a universty/college. but at what cost? like 99.9% of my life so far I spent at school or at home doing freakin homework and even then I do extracurricular but I bet at every students mind is that I've got a project/paper that's was asssigned today but is due tomorrow..
I wanna hear your arguments.
Unfortunately my private school that I'm already overpaying in tuition is actually extending their school year longer, and changing school days from 8:30am to 3:15pm, to 9:20am to 5pm
Last year, my whole grade was barely getting any sleep, with nearly everyone half joking and half angry about how every day they were staying up until 2, 3, 4 or even 5 am getting their work done for school, and barely having any time for their hobbies or after school activities anymore.
Apparently they want us to be pulling all nighters all the time now.
Finland has one of the best educational systems in the world, yet they spend the least hours in school. Why can't they understand that?
In Scotland every Fridays a half day, five periods with 10 minutes less per class
My community college gives us Friday off every week. So on weeks like this where Monday(Labor Day) is a holiday we get 4 day weekends. ^___^
Man I wish I had a 4 day week during grade and highschool.!
It wasn't until College where I did everything I could to create an awesome schedule where I could cram everything into only 4 days and actually have 1 free day! Some years I managed to only have 1 course, which was awesome cause I had the rest of the day for myself!
It helped! Having 3 free days per week really helped me relax and have time for myself (playing video games, duh!). Okay okay, so I did homework and studied for exams too, but I usually only spent 1 of my "free days" per week for that kinda stuff so I always had 2 days for gaming, going out and relaxing! We need it!!!
One reason why I didn't have amazing grades in gradeschool and highschool is because I had to go to school 5 days a week, they gave out so much friggin homework so rather than doing my homework or studying hard after school or on weekends, I just did everything as quickly as possible to maximize the amount of free time I had for gaming and other stuff!
But in college, I did so much better because it was less stressful! With 3 days or 2 1/2 days of free time, it made school life so much easier and I got really good grades and worked harder too.
I think a longer school day with fewer classes per day could be good, but here's a different model of education for 7th - 12th grades, called Freeform schooling (it has a 5-day school week):
Days 1 & 2:
3 Classes (A, B, & C); ~2 hours long each, with a 5 min break in the middle of class, and a 10 min break between classes. Lunch is 2 hours long, and can be taken between classes A & B, or between classes B & C.
Total school day length: 8 hours.
Day 3:
Elective day; Students are involved in the extra curricular activities of their choice; sports, theatre, robotics, animal husbandry, gardening, mechanics, social clubs, etc. Students may also opt to work with other students on any class assignments and projects during this day (not limited to just their classmates, but could also include the instructors and other students that have previously passed that class).
Total school day length: 6-10 hours (depending on the specific activities).
Days 4 & 5:
3 Classes (D, E, & F); Same set-up as Days 1 & 2, but for three other classes.
Total school day length: 8 hours.
The classes are broken into 3-week long "sessions" (10 mandatory sessions per school year, with an additional 3 optional sessions available), at the end of which the students take a comprehension test for the class material (or submit a class project or other assigned requirement).
There's a "Breather week" between sessions with half-days designed for students and instructors to finish grading and post results of the prior session, and for students to sign up for the next session. Day 3 (extra curricular day), does not have a Breather week, as there are no tests to grade; rather, students gain credit for participation, and may engage in one, or multiple activities, and stay with or change them as they like.
Each class can be taken as many times as a student needs to pass the class. Each class is pass/fail, with passing being equivalent to a 3.0 (B grade) or better.
Instructors teach the same 12 hours of the classes they teach, each session that class is offered (which may rotate thru 2 or 3 sessions, depending on class sign-ups).
Many classes have a prerequisite class they must have already passed in order to attend them. Students choose what classes they want and when (allowing them to take classes with their friends).
In order to graduate, students must have passed all the MGC's (Minimum Graduating Class). These classes represent the capstone of mandatory education standards.
Students have a total of 6 school years to pass all their MGC's. If they do not graduate by the end of their 6th year, they enter "intensive study", where their shortcomings are identified, and they are required to work solely on those everyday of the week until they pass.
Students passing all their MGC's in under 6 years may opt to graduate early, continue taking other classes they wish, or even becoming student aids (tutors and class helpers) for classes they have already passed, for the remainder of the 6 years.
The Freeform schooling model has not yet been adopted by any public schools yet (as far as I know), but has many advantages over traditional educational models. The biggest advantage is in giving the students control over what they learn, and how fast.
This model encourages students to take responsibility for their choices, and teaches valuable lessons that translate directly to real life (such as being self-motivated, meeting deadlines, and discovering what they like and don't like, not to mention the self-esteem boost and intrinsic respect this model provides for students).
What do you guys think of this educational model for grades 7-12?
I thought college would give me the opportunity to get out of school but really I'm spending more time on school. M&F I have classes from 8am -4pm 9(neverminding that I have to wake up t 6am) Wednesdays I have school from 8am-9pm and tues&thurs I have school from 11am-3pm. Then immediately I have to go to work directly after, not even going home til 10 pm. For all of you who don't work while in college you must be privileged with parents who can give you the world., and yes I have a scholarship but that doesn't pay for my gas (car) and food(since I live off campus). I've never worked so hard in my life, I loved it at first until I fainted at work from dehydration/exhaustion.
We just need to learn stuff that we might actually use in our lives, and have no homework.
I think a 4 day week for anybody would be awesome. I have bad anxiety and it really helps break up the week for me. The problem with 4 day school weeks is there would have to be some child care program implemented because now a days most parents both work.
in my area, students k-5 have an extra hour becuase of bad reading scores. They don't get off until four, only get recess once a week and then are required to do homework. they really only get about an hour or two to do anything not school related like sports or games. A day off would mean that for four days a week they get to eat and do school work with very little break time. pardon the grammar, I'm tying on a phone.
Here in Indonesia (national+) our school starts at 7am and ends at 4pm, 5 days a week.
Hey emmm i'm from france and I'd just like to point out that what you said about wednesday being "the day for kids" and "a whole day of school" yeaaaah that is true but it goes untill middle school and then throught middle school and high school you'll work on wednesdays mornings. Some schools (like mine) even have classes on saturday mornings and wednesday afternoons. Our classes are mostly 8 to 5 everyday and depending on your options you might even finish at 6. French high schoolers weeks are super charged because french people love very long vacation so we have long weeks to compensate.
In Canada, Alberta a lot of high schools (not all). Have no classes every second Friday.
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In Brazil school's only 4 hours a day and you decide whether you go in the morning, mid-day, or night
Well i went from working 5 days for 8 hours, to 4 days for 10 hours, the day certainly feels really long but DAMN that 3 day weekend feels good when it's over. So i imagine it would be a similar thing for school kids.
DNews, thanks for sharing. I never knew that there are such things as 4 days of school. In my opinion, shorter days of school is a great idea but may cause a lot of effects, especially signal parents. If adults have a high paying income, then it may not be much of a concern, but if the income is lower or even minimum wage, then it would be harder to provide for the family or pay for DayCare too. Talking about DayCare... do you have anything about Private DayCare/DayCare Center/Home Care. I know that every states and country has different laws. Most 10-13 yrs old children hate going to DayCare. Now, children, you don't want that to happened, right.?
Some of the schools in my country have 6 days per week but their school days are shorter so technically my 5 days per week is already a set of longer school days. Can't imagine what it would be like if it were longer.
I work two jobs, and for one of them, I only get paid when I have time to work on it (there is no specific schedule, but if I do not find time to work on it, I will be fired and possibly never hired by another person for the same job). One day off would give me a whole day that I can work on my second job!
Plus, when I have 3 day weekends, I don't spend the majority of the weekend doing my homework.
Now they just need to set high school start times to be 8am and lighten the homework load (have it ACTUALLY be a light review like the teachers say it is) and watch the scores skyrocket!)
isn't it a thing in France where they get wednesday afternoon off but have to go to schools on saturdays or something?
I guess this study should be conducted in the long term to see whether the effects of a higher level of motivation because of a longer weekend wares off
i used to go to school 6 days a week but this year i'll only have 5/7 days. i'm grateful even for this, it' just good
I had my first week of high school. I actually cried multiple times
I do think that a shorter school week would benefit the kids, especially if the teachers use most of the other days for training, a lot of public school teachers are just not good teachers but there is usually at least one good one in the school and that could rub off on the bad ones a bit.
I would love a 4 day week. I can’t handle sitting in those awful chairs for 7.5 hours a day for 5 days a week. During the summer my back feels fine but during the school year I am in so much pain. School feels like a punishment for doing nothing wrong.
OR just go to virtual school, complete any assignments when you want to, middle night, middle day, etc. Anytime. This also means alot more free time. With 3 assignments per class PER WEEK that I need to complete. I can literally do all my weeks work in 2 days and have a 5 day weekend for work/etc
Sunday night-through-Thursday-afternoon boarding schools work well in some countries - kids just study and sleep four days a week