The problem most people don't mention is you need to rope public school into the same equation or else you're leaving that entire, extremely large, workforce out which involves maintenance, custodians, IT, nurses, useless administration, teachers, etc etc etc.
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2023
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I mean, just saying, I went to a highschool from 2006-2010 that already operated on 4 day weeks. It can be done easy enough.
Fewer hours each week would be better for schools than summer vacation.
The latter is historically based on family farming.
Now children are overburdened most of the year, and idle and bored for the rest.
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This probably won’t happen. Employees these days have no leverage. Unions are not where they used to be. Workers rights are nowhere near strong enough. Until workers have leverage nothing changes. Can’t even stop Rto at this point. Really wish things could change