Reply To: Working parent letter: two implementable ideas I posted

Avhaben. I am sorry but your numbers are wrong perhaps I was not clear enough in my suggestions.Even if someone is currently a full time teacher you are looking at a full week covering bet. 35-38 hours.

Extending fridays by1/2-1 hour translates into a 1-2% increase in workload.

Only Fridays for half the school year are till 1pm and of course due to yomim tovim and vacations a percentage of fridays will not have school scheduled.

BTW many girl schools have dismissal at 1230 on Fridays already year round.It is a very high percentage of boys schools that end 12pm on Fridays and as explained above, there would be a wash with sunday hours for boys Yeshivas and Rebbeim.

Regarding preschools: A standard schedule is usually 9-3 monday-thursday 9-12 friday = 108 hours if there was a full month. If you want to say tuition is 5000-6000 average then you are (25 children per class) at $125-150K gross per year for the school.We are working solely for tuition.Why should young preschool parents who are just starting out have to pay similar pricing to 1-8th graders who have longer hours and less days off?(Yes in pre-school you must have assistants aside from a Morah, which explains part of the costs but the hours are still to short) Having dismissal at 3:30 pm and fridays till 1230/1 could make a tremendous difference.