We are SO excited about the 4 day week. Yes, 4 day weekends if a holiday falls on a Monday. But on the week of the holiday, we will go to school that Friday (making the weekend following the holiday a 2 day weekend like normal people. LOL!).

Right now, school starts at 8:12 and ends at 3:05. Next year school will start at 8:00 and go til 3:50. So it's not much of a sacrifice. Our school year and holidays will pretty much stay the same, too. We start August 18th (which is a Friday, but it's only for registration). Then the next week we have Thursday AND Friday off (for county fair. We haven't been able to take off fair days before, but with the 4 day week, we are able to do some more flexible things. This will REALLY help a bunch of the kids, since a majority of the kids at our school do something for the fair). School will still end by the end of May (May 24th to be exact).

We are also working on getting all ball games to be on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. That way kids aren't crunched for homework time. Hopefully the other schools will also schedule their games the same way. Away games are a killer when the kids are coming back at midnight on a school night. This will really help. Of course, this is something the school board and administration wants, but not the coaches. Coaches liked having weekends off, that is why they were scheduling the games during the week. But I guess if they want to keep their jobs, they will conform to some new rules, right?

Teachers will have one inservice day a month on a usual day off. But I think they are glad for the extra days "kidless".