School and Christmas

[rach3975]

Originally Posted by MissKim

We use hours in school. In Kansas, school districts have the option of using days or hours. So same number of hours in less days. Saved millions for the district. Our choice was work longer days or they'll fire the nurses and custodians and outsource their work.

Being in that position stinks, but I'm glad they were able to find a way to keep those jobs. Cost was probably behind our district's decision to switch to counting hours, too. Our school day is 6 hours and 45 minutes; we added 15 or 20 minutes a day when we switched to counting hours.