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A Four Day School Week?
Meritnation|Sep 23rd, 2015 12:06pm
Just imagine what would it be like having longer weekends and going to school only for four-days a week. Does that sound interesting to you? Think about all the fun activities you’d be doing in your extra day off if you get to stay a little longer in school but only for four days! Also, doing academically great in class!! Would you like to trade for a life like this? Sounds cool, right?
A recent research from the USA indicates that this can actually be beneficial for students. Researchers from Montana State University and Georgia State University have been investigating the impact of a four-day school week a schools in the western state of USA, Colorado, where schools have adopted a four-day week to cut transport and utility costs.
During the study, the researchers analysed reading and maths scores of students from grade 4 and 5. The researchers found that the maths scores of the students improved when the school switched to the four-day week. On the other hand, there was no improvement in the reading scores but no decline was also noticed. The findings of the researchers surprised themselves thinking that the compressed week but a longer day in class would act a burden especially for the younger elementary students and would result in poorer academic performance.
Mary Beth Walker, dean of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State says “we thought that especially for the younger, elementary school kids, longer days on a shorter school week would hurt their academic performance because their attention spans are shorter. Also, a longer weekend would give them more opportunity to forget what they had learned.” Teachers found that there were less absentees and teachers had the opportunity to use different types of “instructional processes” to teach.
Students do you wish something like this? We would love to hear your thoughts on this! 🙂
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1. Anagha Pandurangi | November 1st, 2016 at 1:33 pm
ya… i think it would be great…
2. tanvi | August 11th, 2016 at 4:51 pm
i don’t think we should go with the idea as such now….
we are in the habit of a five day school and miss mary beth walker said.. we might forget things … and actually instead of making it a weekend we could have an early leave …but it would become an issue in schools who have saturdays working too…
hence i think that we must just think a lot before taking any step further…
3. Shivoy Dixit | March 25th, 2016 at 1:48 pm
It would be so great if we will have four day school week. I am totally in suppport of this idea.
4. Urvashi | October 31st, 2015 at 9:31 pm
This is not going to help as we might get disconnected with what we have done in the past week. Also it increases the time period of the vacations giving us more time to while away rather than use thoughtfully which we do in 2 days as we know of the time constraint. Making it three days is going to reduce the work, but also increase the time for the same allowing us to relax and get a laid-back attitude.
5. Princy watson | October 19th, 2015 at 9:42 am
It will be amazing and cool if we will get 3 days holiday in a week
6. Lucifer Agrawal | October 18th, 2015 at 10:28 am
Is system will definitely flop if implicated and the students will be the only sufferers and the school should be for as any as days possible.
7. Akhila Ficel | October 15th, 2015 at 11:58 pm
This is great! We’ll have lot of time to relax as well as to learn in this system!
8. alagammai | October 14th, 2015 at 6:05 pm
i too want this to happen so that we don’t get too stressed up?
9. nivetha | October 2nd, 2015 at 11:49 pm
wow!!. a great idea.it would be better if we follow it in our schools…..
10. MEHAK SHARMA | September 30th, 2015 at 5:43 pm
WOOOOO I REALLY DONT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN BECAUSE I LOVE GOING TI SCHOOL BECAUSE THERE ARE MY FRIENDS AND MY SWEET AND HONOURABLE TEACHERS….SO I DONT WANT THIS TO HAPPEN
11. n.shruti | September 29th, 2015 at 11:27 pm
IF ONLY FOUR WEEKS I GO TO SCHOOL THEN I WILL BE VERY HAPPY
12. arjun | September 29th, 2015 at 10:19 pm
school is the best and it should be for maximum days possible
13. Vibhav | September 29th, 2015 at 12:22 pm
Great Idea!
14. yaser | September 27th, 2015 at 12:35 am
SOUNDS GREAT !
15. Nabanil | September 26th, 2015 at 7:50 pm
It will be great if this system is introduced!
16. Shreyansh srivastava | September 26th, 2015 at 11:28 am
You are very brilliant bro
17. devanshi | September 25th, 2015 at 8:34 pm
😉
18. devanshi | September 25th, 2015 at 8:34 pm
This Four day week should be made for classes 9-12.We can relax ourselves on three weekdays as well as study well especially maths.;)
19. kalpana | September 25th, 2015 at 11:16 am
YUP ITZ GR8 WANNA TALK ON THIS AT NATIONAL LEVEL
20. Pratiksha Theodore | September 24th, 2015 at 9:12 pm
Thumps up..!! 2 d researchers cuz i think dat tis’ is d best idea for good students as well as for weak too. Goin only 4 days to d school is really good cuz v wud hv much much more tym 2 revise whateva v hv learnt in our school days nd tis wud result in good results.I wish if our school wud take such step… 🙂 Its a GREAT IDEA…again a THUMBS UP..!!
21. kalpana | September 24th, 2015 at 5:25 pm
what do u guys think#schoool is coool or really fooooooooool #i know its boring quest
22. kalpana | September 24th, 2015 at 5:22 pm
hi realyyyyyyyyyyyyyy indiaaaaa will make more people genious in such methodology#re
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23. Sneha | September 24th, 2015 at 5:21 pm
Even I want this in our school ….
24. kalpana | September 24th, 2015 at 5:20 pm
sounds cooooooooooooooooooool#freezingly luv it
25. parul agarwal | September 24th, 2015 at 4:37 pm
That sounds interesting. We must get 3 holidays in a week……
26. Riya Vardhan | September 24th, 2015 at 3:52 pm
wow………..that’s something brilliant
27. Vikalp | September 24th, 2015 at 2:56 pm
Really it will be very amazing if we will have a four day school week..
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