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Potential benefits, challenges of a 4-day school week
Bath County Board of Supervisors member Percy Nowlin presented the following information from the Southern Regional Education Board at a work session held by the supervisors and school board Oct. 29 concerning a four-day school week.
Nowlin is a former superintendent of Bath County Public Schools and is currently serving as interim superintendent of Highland County Public Schools. Potential benefits: • Savings on fuel, food, utilities and the salaries of some workers. • Longer blocks of time available to complete lessons such as science labs. • Use of the unscheduled day for professional development, tutoring, special programs, or to make up lost days due to inclement weather or other disruptions to the regular schedule. • District's use of the unscheduled day to plan athletic events, limiting disruptions to normal instructional time. • Students (particularly in sparsely populated areas) having fewer long commutes. • Lower absenteeism of students and teachers. • Fewer substitutes needed because teachers can schedule appointments on unscheduled days. • Students generally arriving home at the same time as their parents, diminishing the need for after-school child care and supervision. Potential challenges • Collective bargaining. (In Virginia, that would likely translate to legal issues on shortening teacher contracts.) • Unpopularity of reduced salaries for cafeteria workers and bus drivers. • Child care and supervision of students on the unscheduled day. • Length of day for young students, particularly when long commutes are involved. • The extended focus required of students during a longer day. • Students safety during winter months when daylight hours are fewer. • Twenty percent more instructional time lost when a student or teacher misses a day. • Impact on extra-curricular activities and their schedules. • Teacher preparation for the change in schedule to assure the maximum use of instructional time. • Difficulties with students (especially at-risk and special-needs students) retaining subject matter during the extra day off. • The need to run utilities during the unscheduled day to prevent mold due to heat and humidity, thereby offsetting savings. • The perception of "giving a day off," although instructional time is the same or greater.

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