Short Weeks

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Irregular News for 9.27.05

Lesington, KY -- Four-day school weeks are becoming a more popular option for school districts in Kentucky. Starting next month, students in Jackson County will get every Friday off. Teachers will work half a day. Jackson is the fourth school district in the state to implement a four-day week and the first to do so primarily for financial reasons, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.

Webster County, Ky., made the change in 2003. Not only do teachers and students love the shorter week, but the school has saved enough money to offer full-day kindergarten instead of half-days, Webster Superintendent James Kemp told the newspaper. In its first year, Webster saved more than $150,000 in transportation, overtime and workers' compensation costs and substitute teacher pay. It saved an additional $167,000 by cutting a handful of jobs, eliminating some bus routes and making other cost-cutting measures.

To make up for lost time, Jackson will start schools 15 minutes earlier and end the day 45 minutes later.

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[AR Husker Fan]

I'm wondering when state governments are going to implement something like this. The federal government has already ordered a reduction of gas and energy consumption due to the oil prices.

 

[Eric the Red]

Hey, who cares, as long as we win the war man....who cares about anything.

I'll tell you what, lets continue to pour more money into the 450 billion dollar defense budget so we can beat those damned terrorist. Amazing, we spend all that money and 9/11 still happened.

Let's just maintain the smaller 50 billion dollar budget for education, because if our citizens get too educated they may actually see that war is pointless and will never end, so why enter it in the first place.

By the way, did you know that if you add up the defense budgets of countries numbered 2-10 (after the US) all together, they still do not exceed what the US spends on killing people.

Am I a free, peace loving hippie, no, not quite, but I know the difference between rampid imperialism and defending a weaker peoples.

 

[AR Husker Fan]

Amen...