What's This Rumor I Hear?

My father-in-law informed me yesterday that he read in the weekend paper that the school we'll be sending Bailey to next year just got approval from the state to go to a 4-day school week, as a cost-saving measure. We don't get the paper and the online version didn't say anything about it. And the school's website doesn't say anything either.

Three questions come to mind about this:

1. Is this official? Don't the parents get to vote on it? We signed the statement of faith which means that we get to vote on important matters. So either that doesn't take effect until fall when she's actually a student, or the vote took place before we were "in the system," or the parent vote hasn't taken place yet because they were waiting for the school board & the state to approve it first.
2. I find it a little bit curious that they didn't at least mention this to us as a possibility when we were interviewing. On the other hand, that was way back on March 2, so maybe the idea was still so far in its infancy that it wasn't worth mentioning. Maybe it hadn't even been born yet.
3. What will we do with Bailey on those off days when the rest of us suckers are at work/school? She regularly stays home by herself for a few hours at a time while we go out, and we have a security alarm, so she would probably be fine staying home by herself. Maybe I could give her a chore list or something. I would also have to find out if there's a state or city law concerning how old a child has to be in order to stay home alone, and for how long. For some reason I'm thinking it's 10, but I'm not sure. My mother-in-law said that Bailey could come to their house, but I don't know how serious she was. Also, we were hoping to completely do away with any day care costs as far as Bailey's concerned.

So I guess we'll see. Hopefully we will be hearing from the school soon so that we can figure out how this will all work. I'm not against it; on the contrary, I think it's a smart idea. Do you think I could convince the Mayo Clinic to follow suit so I could work a 4-day week? Nah, probably not.