The switch to four-day school weeks has recently become popular among smaller and rural school districts across Texas that need an incentive to recruit and retain teachers but don’t always have the financial resources to offer dramatic pay increases.
Staying competitive
Morton said the Oklahoma school districts she’s researched have implemented four-day school weeks as a cost-saving measure and that she hasn’t seen the shorter schedule being used as an incentive for teachers to stay or parents to move into a district before. In that sense, Texas is unique. Still, school districts in Texas know shrinking the school week is a monumental shift from the norm and some are offering accommodations to families. Chico ISD has given the choice of a five-day week to its special education population. In Mineral Wells, the district is currently figuring out which families need the school to be open on Fridays and how to accommodate them.
A study in Colorado also found that adolescent students may engage in more criminal activity as a result of the extra day off. Morton also is worried about children who aren’t in safe households and for whom school represents a safe space. It is unlikely big school districts would make the switch anytime soon, though Robinson believes they can and it would help them solve things like traffic congestion.
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