Friday, May 11, 2018

Kids Should Not have to be Kept Busy on Friday

Lately there are programs and camps geared for boys keeping them busy on Fridays in the summer months. The Friday schedule in Lakewood for boys and girls is a very short day. Girls are going to school for just about 2 hours on Friday. In some cases the buses dont get there before 9:40 and at 11:15 they are getting dismissed! Yes busing is an issue, but its not fair for the kids and for the parents who now have to shorten their Friday workday even more. Boys should not have to be bored and kept busy because they are home at 12:30 pm on a long summer Friday.

  The overall Friday schedule in Lakewood should be changed. The town schedule can no longer be dictated by playgroup moros schedules or busing.
 In Brooklyn, schools end on Friday during the winter at 1 o'clock. Lakewood is not a young town with couples leaving to NY on Erev shabbos. Most businesses finish Friday work day at 1:30- 2:00 pm on Friday's. Even the Yeshiva first seder is cut short on Friday because of the playgroup schedule.

Now that the Busing is no longer controlled by the BOE the schools and town leaders can focus on making Lakewood a 1:00 pm Friday instead of 11:30. Perhaps a solution is to Stagger dismissal times have the girls dismissal at 12:30 pm or 1:00 and boys dismissal at 1:30 or 2:00 pm.
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 11, 2018 at 5:56 AM

    The girls basically have a 4 day school week, its ok if they are taught that Friday is erev shabbos and they help out in the kitchen.

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  2. AnonymousMay 11, 2018 at 5:58 AM

    How do they expect parents to work and pay tuition yet they send the kids home early makes no sense. What they should do is start the school day at 8:00 am Its about time Lakewood is like Brooklyn time t rise early

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    1. AnonymousMay 11, 2018 at 11:13 AM

      Sure, why not be like Brooklyn with the school day? We're like Brooklyn in so many other ways :( You can always stay in Brooklyn if you like it so much...

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  4. Long time lkwdMay 11, 2018 at 3:41 PM

    Always complaining about something

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  5. AnonymousMay 13, 2018 at 4:30 PM

    I could not agree more with this post. I think it's pathetic how early school ends on Friday. Kids, especially those in High School, simply don't take school seriously when it comes to Friday. Half of my class never bothered showing up if they had a remote headache.

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