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The rise of the four-day school week

 

She says it's not unreasonably priced. 
It was an unexpected expense.
Things are just tighter.
Let's go to the arcade and, you know, blow $20 for 40 minutes..
And those type of things we've had to step back from. 
*hike (가격·경비 등의) 대폭 인상[급등]
If the tax hike had gone through, she would have paid less than $60 extra a year to pay teachers more.
*grasp one's pearls 기분이 상하거나 충격을 받다
-경악할 만한 일이었지만 지금은 비교적 흔한 일, 사건, 상황 등에 대해 수치심이나 모멸감을 느끼는 방식으로 반응하는 것
The teachers were grasping their pearls- kind of, like, shocked.
*overhaul 점검, 개편, 점검하다, 앞지르다
A huge overhaul of how the public education system has always worked.
Most parents strongly support the four-day school week once it's been implemented
*pop up in 등장하다
The first real wave popped up in the '70s and '80s.
*get to and from school 등하교를 하다
Kids were spending hours on the school bus getting to and from school every day.
*inherently 선천적으로, 본질적으로
That motivation seems to be kind of an inherently good. 
*expenditure [ ɪkˈspendɪtʃə(r)] (공공 기금의) 지출, 비용, 경비, (에너지·시간 등의) 소비, 소모
School districts saved about 1- to 2% of their expenditures. 
*minuscule 아주 작은, 하찮은

*in the grand scheme of things (일이 돌아가는) 상황/~가 원하는 상황; 대국적으로 보자면
So this is pretty minuscule in the grand scheme of things.
*draw in bigger school districts 더 큰 학군에도 영향을 미치다
It's also drawing in bigger school districts.
A lot of districts are dropping a school day without really knowing how well it works.
*anecdotal 입증되지 않은
Districts are relying on kind of this anecdotal evidence to make these decisions. 
They would like to be in school as little as possible.

*perk 혜택, 특전
*tangible 실체적인, 확실한

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Right now, a lot of school districts across the country are making a pretty giant change to the way public education usually works. Those districts are saying to teachers, "You can have three-day weekends all the time, and we won't cut your pay." As of this fall, around 900 school districts – that's about 7% of all districts in the U.S. – now have school weeks that are just four days long.

And this isn't the first time a bunch of schools have scaled back to four days, so there is a lot of data to lean on to figure out how well it works. In this episode, teachers love the four-day school week, and it turns out even parents love it, too. But is it good for students?

 

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The rise of the four-day school week

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