Webster County Reconsidering 5 Day Week
By: Kara Kirtley
Updated: January 11, 2013
The Webster County School Board is reconsidering its four day school week. School employees are being asked to fill out a survey and vote on their preference for a four or five day week. The school board will ultimately decide the school schedule.
The Assistant Superintendent Riley Ramsey says the shorter school week saves money on bus costs and helps students take part time jobs, "Incomes and salaries are really desperate in this county and in the nation, and it gives them an actual chance to work on a Monday, where they did not have that chance before. "
Ramsey tells us that the district has to get special permission from the state each year for the schedule. That's because the district doesn't reach the mandated 170 days of instruction, even though the district exceeds the amount of hours required.
The Assistant Superintendent Riley Ramsey says the shorter school week saves money on bus costs and helps students take part time jobs, "Incomes and salaries are really desperate in this county and in the nation, and it gives them an actual chance to work on a Monday, where they did not have that chance before. "
Ramsey tells us that the district has to get special permission from the state each year for the schedule. That's because the district doesn't reach the mandated 170 days of instruction, even though the district exceeds the amount of hours required.
