PEETZ, Colo. -- The Peetz community was invited to a discussion Thursday on moving to a 4-day week. 

The discussion was held in the school’s new cafeteria with the superintendents of the Akron School District and Holyoke School District as guest speakers. Both schools have moved from a five-day week to a four-day week. 

Holyoke Superintendent Kyle Stumpf stressed that this needs to be a community decision. 

“This is a process, and not something done lightly. There’s a lot of factors to take into place, things like that. What I’m hoping to share with you guys today is just some of our experiences, all the things that worked, things that didn’t,” Stumpf said.  

He stressed that the decision needs to be what’s best for the school and the community. Stumpf said Holyoke's decision also focused on drawing more teachers to the district. He also said discipline issues have declined since implementing a four-day week. 

Akron Supt. Brian Christensen their change to a four-day week started in 2015 and became reality in 2017. 

“When we started considering, it was probably 2015 and it actually came from one of our school board members, and kept pushing it and I’ll be honest with you at that time I was not necessarily in favor of moving from a five-day to a four-day,” Christensen said. 

He said when Akron started the process, he was not in favor of it. 

“After I collected all the data, we put out some information to not only our staff but the community. We put together a survey, and surprisingly enough, I went back through the data today, we kind of had a strong, moderate, middle of the road, still have questions about it and against it. I think we had like 70 percent which surprised me that were in the top two categories,” he said. 

He said only about 4 percent were actually against a four-day school week.