Hawaii public schools go to 4 day school week

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Jared341

EDIT: I had originally thought that they would add the hours onto the other four days, thus saving on overhead (HVAC, power, staff) costs slightly, but according to this article it looks like they are eliminating 17 school days all together.

I now fully echo Raul's concern...

Jared,
Yes, they chose 17 days because it amounts to those weeks that have no holidays/other things going on.........that would cause students to miss school.
It was either this or massive layoffs and I am a firm believer that massive layoffs would have hurt the schools even more.

Society is willing to spend more money to fix prisons and pay out welfare checks, instead of putting/keeping money in education which is the backbone of our country. Go figure.