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Due to the falling economy, over the past two years, more and more school districts around the country are going to a FOUR DAY school week. I can understand the economics and savings of money by this move. However, with our public educational system falling behind all other industrialized countries, is this the appropriate thing to do ?
Proponents of the FOUR DAY school week say that since implemented, scholastic scores have gone up, moral has increased and attendance is at an all time high. With that being said; then it seems that scores would increase even more by going to a THREE DAY school week. And how about a TWO DAY or a ONE DAY school week ? Imagine if we went to a NO DAY school week...everyone would then become honor students and our poor educational system would no longer be needed as well; as all kids would be exceptional college candidates.
Now, with the "dumbing down" of America, it appears that they've found a faster way to poorly educate the next generation. After all, this country was built by millions of people that had never gone to school. Could it be that if we have a huge population of uneducated people that we could make our country grow again ?
I think not !
So, what's more important, increasing salaries for the people that run these school districts or educating our children ? Obviously, the people that make the rules couldn't care less about the kids........