Fact: The Three-Day Schedule for Students is a Decision of the School

According to the newspaper "Fact", it has received complaints from various schools and parents indicating that the schedule for students to attend school remains uncertain in schools that have adopted a three-day schedule rather than a double shift. This means that one group of students, divided into two classes, attends classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, while the other attends on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. However, there have been reports circulating in schools that the Ministry of Education and Science has proposed changing this schedule every week.

The concern is that under such a change, a student would have only one day off in a week (Sunday) and four days off in the following week (Saturday, Sunday, Monday). To clarify this issue, "Fact" reached out to the Ministry's Education Department, where they provided the following response: "The guidelines are clearly and meticulously presented. We are in contact with the schools, and we have no issues regarding this matter. Classes are held 6 days a week; each group attends for 3 days—one after the other. We had suggested that the groups swap days the following week to avoid a situation where one group attends Saturday classes while the other finishes on Friday and is always at home on weekends, despite the fact that the other group attends on Saturday but doesn’t attend on Monday. Therefore, in all cases, they have two days off. There is no problem regarding that, but to avoid psychological distress, we suggested it this way. Thus, one group attends Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, while the other group attends on the following three days. Then the following week, they can switch places; that is already up to the school's decision."