Good, now give the parents 4 day work weeks (with the same pay) so they can spend more time with their kids.

It’s a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano.

Really wish articles wouldn't say dumb shit like this. Just tell us the information without making it all dramatized.

With the amount of funding US schools get, they're glorified daycare centers so making them 4 day weeks is a good way to keep the poorer parents reallll poor. This lady is lucky shes got a 13 year old, because you're not leaving that 7 year old alone without fucking them up either mentally or physically.

I've seen articles like this before. The answer on why? Money. School districts are underfunded and can't recruit teachers on a shoestring budget.

Hundreds of school systems around the country have adopted four-day weeks in recent years, mostly in rural and western parts of the U.S. Districts cite cost savings and advantages for teacher recruitment,

She has no interest in paying for the child care option the district is offering for $30 per day. Multiplied by several kids, it adds up.

Straight up just cutting services and charging people a surcharge that their taxes already pay for.

The district offers meals on Mondays, but not at every school. Starting in October, struggling students will be able to attend school on Mondays for extra help.

That just sounds like school with extra steps.

“You have to go back and look, you know, what do parents do during the summertime? What do they do over, you know, spring break or Christmas break?” he said, adding that schools already had weekdays off for occasions such as teacher conferences.

They fucking suffer? They pay for summer camp. Or daycare services which are $$$. Or like me in the 90s, you're a latch-key kid. And you end up seriously lacerating yourself at 9yo because you shouldn't leave kids unsupervised.

The change also provides another day to work on family farms

Child labor is coming back into fashion.

Why are schools cutting hours when we’re falling behind in basic math and reading nationally?

What would they do for the hours after school finished normally or if work on weekends?

Afterschool programs, usually. Or latch-key kids which really isn't ideal.