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Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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What about people that work in education? This is not possible to attain if kids go to school for the amount of time they currently do. Teachers, paras, custodians, IT people etc have no choice in this unless kids have less time in the classroom as well. So unless all those people get paid more to keep doing 40 while the rest gets more life back you'll be hard pressed to find people that want to work education..like anyone wants to work education these days anyways.
Good question you raise. For elementary school make it 4 days a week, parents should have another day with their kids. For highschool, many teachers do one or two subjects which don't necessarily have to cover all five days, they can swap out.
Even a 32-hour week won't guarantee you'll be off the same day as your kids. Subsidized daycare should also be a thing.
If you're talking about the children of teachers, they're almost assuredly going to have the same days off.
No, I'm talking about everyone else's children. Just because they get Fridays (for example) off doesn't mean their parents do too. They could work Tuesday-Friday.