JASPER, Texas — A local school district in Texas has announced plans to reduce students' school weeks from the traditional five days to four days for the upcoming 2022-2023 school year.
The Jasper Independent School District cited teacher shortage and retention when it announced the change in a Facebook post last month and said it had conducted surveys with parents, teachers and staffers before the change was voted on by its board of trustees.
He continued,"As a school district, ultimately the best thing we can do for kids is put the best possible teacher in front of them every day." According to Seybold, the school district is now down to just one teacher vacancy. Prior to the changes, he said, open high school science positions"had been unfulfilled for two years."
According to a study conducted last year by the American Federation of Teachers with the Rand Corporation, one in four teachers were thinking about quitting their job by the end of the school year. Teachers were also more likely to report experiencing regular job-related stress and symptoms of depression than the general population, according to the study.
According to one study from researchers at Oregon State and Montana State University, which examined 2005-2019 test scores from over 341,000 Oregon high schoolers, students' math test scores appeared to decline on average after switching to a four-day school week in a non-rural district. In Jasper, the next academic year would kick off on Aug. 10 and run through June 1, 2023, but the four-day schedule wouldn't begin until the week of Oct. 3, according to an academic calendar posted on the district's website. From October through the end of April, students would report to school only from Mondays through Thursdays, and teachers would use Fridays as professional development days.
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