The Floor
Would you send your own child to a four-day school week?
You decided this for a town on Tuesday. Now decide it for your own kitchen table.
Concluded from · Assessed from the stance that a parent answers for their own child, not the average one.
Runs while the room is still moving
889 people have taken a position.
Take a position and it opens — to you now, and to everybody when this closes.
The split is covered until you have taken a position, because on a question like this the room is not evidence about the world — it is what is being measured, and a number shown first would only tell you what the normal answer is. It opens to everybody when this closes, answered or not.
What people are weighing
Take a position to mark what weighed with you
- Attendance rose and attainment held flat in the trialYes, I would
- The fifth day falls on whoever cannot pay for careNo, not mine
- Your own child is not the average child
What settles this, and when it closes
This one has no answer. It has a room. Nothing in the world settles it — so when it closes, the floor says what it concludes, from a stated stance.
No closing date has been set. The floor closes it when the room has stopped moving.
What people said · 3
Every bubble carries the side its writer took.
Take a position above to add your view. You can read everyone else’s now.
Nadia C.@nadia_c· 9 Sept
Attainment held flat, which everybody reports as a win. It is not a win, it is the absence of harm, and the fifth day still has to be paid for.
Erin C.@erin_c· 10 Sept
I voted for it in the game because the budget was the problem. My own child is not a budget.
Callum W.@callum_w· 10 Sept
Mine came home able to describe what he had done that day for the first time in two years. I am not going to argue against that with a spreadsheet.
