“There were standing-room-only public meetings with community members threatening not to support future budget levies,” writes Alex Mitchell for the Hechinger Report. “Parents filed two formal complaints. One family sued. Some are transferring their children to districts miles away next year or will take on homeschooling out of concern their kids would otherwise fall behind.”
The Florence-Carlton district, which serves about 730 students, approved the four-day school week in a 3-to-1 board vote in January.
“The only things they showed as positives were anecdotal,” said Virginia Mahn, a Florence-Carlton parent and graduate who filed a complaint against the board. “It’d be an article from a superintendent that was like, ‘This is great for us.’ OK, so where’s your data?”
