School District Saves Burnt Out Teachers With 4-Day Work Week
Fox News says Ohio’s North College Hill City School District has gone to a four-day week in order to prevent teachers from burning out. School district superintendent Eugene Blalock Jr. says having teachers and students only come into school four days a week, while giving them a day to do unsupervised work at home “could be a model that could save the profession of education.” This is known as a “blended learning” model. The school district saw success with this when it was employed during the pandemic. This blended model schedule will affect the 1,400 students and 150 teachers that comprise the district.
Superintendent Eugene Blalock says class now takes place between Tuesday and Friday. “You walk through the buildings and you can just see it in our eyes how tired they are. I know from my time in the classroom that it is not a 9-to-5. Teachers are spending hours in the afternoon planning (and) collaborating. If teachers don’t have ample time to do that, then they struggle, and it’s almost like being on a hamster wheel; you just keep going going going and you never get a chance to get off and take a breath.”
