{"id":1316067,"date":"2024-04-23T05:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T10:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1316067"},"modified":"2024-04-24T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T22:54:00","slug":"gladewater-isd-opts-out-of-mondays-with-four-day-school-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1316067","title":{"rendered":"Gladewater ISD opts out of Mondays with four-day school week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"GLADEWATER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c According to our news partner KETK, the Gladewater ISD board of trustees unanimously made the decision on Monday to move to a four-day school week and opted not to have classes on Mondays. Unlike other districts that decided on having a four-day school week with Fridays off, the district of Gladewater will not be in session Mondays of the coming school year. The school board president said this will help attract and retain teachers, giving them more flexibility in their personal lives.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153As you are trying to be competitive in the workplace and attract staff, you want you want to offer something different,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ross Morgan, school board president, said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The main component teachers are absent because they have to go to the doctor or they have to take their child to the doctor or maybe a parent to the doctor. A lot of doctor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s offices aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t open very long if all on Fridays and that was one kind of long discussion or kind of a really important point as to why Mondays are better.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Board members were in executive session for more than an hour, and Ross said this is a big change for their district and it was a decision they did not take lightly.<\/p>\n

Ross believes the benefits of this new schedule will add more quality teachers to Gladewater classrooms to have the best educational impact for their students.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Student learning, student growth is always the most important thing. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re excited that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve listened to the voices of our employees and our community and that in itself will help make things better,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gladewater ISD Superintendent Sedric Clark, said.
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Ross said the next step is to answer questions about their hourly employees, since their weekly work hours will be cut eight hours.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our plan there is to develop some committees on each campus made of teachers, administrators, maybe some parents, and some of those committees to start working on answers for those questions,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ross said.<\/p>\n

Administrators said one vote does not answer all of the questions, but they are hopeful to fill vacancies and bring the best education to their students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GLADEWATER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c According to our news partner KETK, the Gladewater ISD board of trustees unanimously made the decision on Monday to move to a four-day school week and opted not to have classes on Mondays. Unlike other districts that decided on having a four-day school week with Fridays off, the district of Gladewater will not … Continue reading Gladewater ISD opts out of Mondays with four-day school week<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1316070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/Logo_GISD-216x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"Gladewater ISD opts out of Mondays with four-day school week","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 05:14:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/Logo_GISD-216x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"Gladewater ISD opts out of Mondays with four-day school week","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316071,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316067\/revisions\/1316071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1316070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}