Please sir, may we have some more Austerity?

[Warren Stupidity]

South Dakota schools cut costs with 4-day week
Originally published: August 21, 2011 1:33 PM
Updated: August 21, 2011 1:34 PM
By The Associated Press CHET BROKAW (Associated Press)

Tough arithmetic: Shrinking state support has South Dakota schools flocking to 4-day week

(AP) -- When the nearly 300 students of the Irene-Wakonda School District returned to school this week, they found a lot of old friends, teachers and familiar routines awaiting them. But one thing was missing: Friday classes.
This district in the rolling farmland of southeastern South Dakota is among the latest to adopt a four-day school week as the best option for reducing costs and dealing...
http://www.newsday.com/news/south-dakota-schools-cut-costs-with-4-day-week-1.3111248

We need a Fierce Advocate against the Austerity Regime that is being forced down our throats.

[LWolf]

1. We went to 4 days for a year, 2 years ago,

to avoid laying off more teachers. It was so unpopular that we hid the cut days by sprinkling them around the year, and at the beginning and the end, last year so we could run mostly 5 day weeks.

We already had one of the shortest school years in the nation BEFORE the current budget disaster.

[Brickbat]

2. My kids are on a four-day week. It helps for maybe a year, and then you have to do more cuts all

over again, and I'll be surprised if we ever get that fifth day back.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. we are on the road to ruin.

In my state the loonislature cut taxes on tobacco and beer and raised the tuition at the state university. They are out of their damn minds. Our high school, recently rated one of the best in the nation, is on the verge of losing its accreditation, primarily because the loons are 'drowning the baby'. National insanity.

[saras]

4. If your school was any good, you don't get that education back either, unless you do it at home.

[Riftaxe]

5. Quiet down and eat your peas...

No pleasing some people :shrug:

[Dragonfli]

6. Fuck we don't even rate cake "let them eat peas" is worse than cake.

[Liberal Veteran]

7. A little club soda and a tax cut will get that stain out.

:P

[Skink]

8. Think of all the baby sitting fees

it's a stimulus program