Shorter school week

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Poto, glad to see you saving so much on bussing, not to mention all the other services. I guess you will be buying a whole new fleet of busses and drivers to meet the Friday activities. Or maybe you expect those farmers that are driving busses to support their farms to work that "extra' longer day.

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I can't see that it's so selfish to put the kids' interest ahead of the bus operators. We saw four day weeks in Alberta and the parents were happy because the doctor, dentist, optometrist, etc. appointments could be made without missing any school. Sports activities could be held Thursday evenings and it wasn't a factor the next day. Here we have weeknight hockey games and teenagers are getting to bed at midnight. We finally gave our kids one Friday off and I really doubt they missed more than two hours of quality instruction because of all the fluff that goes with socialization schools seem to be burdened with.

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No one has answered the Day Care issue. Is that not a problem in Saskatchewan? Or do all families have at least one parent home. If so, that's great! I know here (MB) and ON, many work off the farm as well as on it.
Sometimes having the kids' interests first may impact the cash flow situation which again filters down to them.

Also, is two years enough time to determine if the new schedule is a good one?

Maybe as parent's we need to help our children make decisions about extra-cirricular activities. That is, maybe they need to do fewer things. Socialization involves making choices and saying "no" to things. We know this as adults and our children need to learn to be effective here as well.

I am glad to hear that there is lots of discussion planned. Hopefully, this will generate lots of input from all areas and everyone will feel comfortable with the outcome. We'll be looking forward to hearing what was decided and how it goes. Best wishes!