**** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** Here's my comment on the survey question: The only correct way to implement a 5 day school week is to lengthen the school day. The physical plant in our school is in good shape compared to others I've seen, yet we still work in hot, crowded, uncomfortable conditions. By the sixth and seventh hours, it is almost impossible to teach because everyone is so uncomfortable and there is no long break during the day. The longest break is 20 minutes long and there is no place to comfortably eat. I cannot imagine what it would be like to teach through the eighth hour every day. Furthermore, I think that what is going to happen is that we will move to a 5 day week without lengthening the day. This will result in fewer teaching and learning hours a week. This is worse than trying to teach the eighth hour under our unbearable conditions. Either way, we all lose -- us as teachers and our kids as pupils. Michele Ben ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx #####