{"id":54185,"date":"2023-02-14T16:46:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54185"},"modified":"2023-02-14T16:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:50:13","slug":"farmersville-isd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54185","title":{"rendered":"Farmersville ISD: ahead of curve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=farmersvilleISD%20%23fourdayweek%20%23qualityeducation&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am chuckling just a little as I watch the news reports of North Texas school districts considering and then approving new school calendars resulting in four-day school weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Why, they just can&#8217;t believe how cool it is to give teachers an extra day off from the rigors of the classroom; it enables the districts to attract quality educators who are enamored of the four-day school week idea. Hey, not to mention the children loving the extra day off each week from school.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve been covering a local school district that implemented a four-day school week during the COVID-19 pandemic. Farmersville Independent School District liked it so much the school board recently approved a policy that stays with the new calendar. I see no signs of the school district turning back.<\/p>\n<p>Just recently I spoke with an FISD administrator about all the hoopla surrounding other districts&#8217; decision to follow Farmersville&#8217;s lead. She joked that it&#8217;s nice to be ahead of the curve. Indeed, the four-day week has worked well for Farmersville, as it has been able to do the very things that other districts aim to do for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I am equally impressed that a school district with which I have become familiar can hold itself up as a model for progressive education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=farmersvilleISD%20%23fourdayweek%20%23qualityeducation&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am chuckling just a little as I watch the news reports of North Texas school districts considering and then approving new school calendars resulting in four-day school weeks. Why, they just can&#8217;t believe how cool it is to give teachers an extra day off from the rigors of the classroom; it enables the districts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54185\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Farmersville ISD: ahead of curve<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251],"tags":[9048,10126,3766],"class_list":["post-54185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","tag-farmersville-isd","tag-four-day-week","tag-public-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54187,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54185\/revisions\/54187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}