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Originally Posted by Raul
Ok, I am more concerned about how the students get a proper education when the rest of the world is going to more school hours instead of less.
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Well, that depends, if you extend the day so classes are 25% longer you get the same amount of instructional time, if you tack on 15 minutes to a 60 minute period over the 4 days you recoup the lost day.
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However, I have a feeling there are many places schools could cut costs short of cutting class time and also echo Raul's concern.
My hunch for why they are doing this is so they dont have to run the school one more day. After experiencing the heat in Hawaii I can assume that cooling is a huge cost. Based on this assumption (which is purely speculation and can in no way be taken as fact) it would make no sense to allow teams to meet during those days off because it defeats the whole point. Best bet is to develop a new work schedule based around fewer meeting days. Many teams do not meet everyday and it works ok for them.