# Why no school on Saturday?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-school-on-saturday/67913>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 7, 2001, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-school-on-saturday/67913 "2001-06-07T11:36:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2001, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-school-on-saturday/67913/21 "2001-06-11T07:42:13Z")

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This link does a good job of describing the Jewish connection to the development of a 5-day work week in the US:

[http://www.uiowa.edu/~hlss/specialfac/jewish\_sabbath1.htm](http://www.uiowa.edu/~hlss/specialfac/jewish_sabbath1.htm)

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-school-on-saturday/67913/22 "2001-06-11T15:06:49Z")

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\*Originally posted by tomndebb \*  
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> Saturday classes actually remained a part of many college curricula for a long time. I had Saturday morning classes in my first to years of college in the late 60s. \*\*

AFAIK, many universities in Ontario are thinking of having classes on Saturdays starting in a couple of years in order to adequately supply teachers and seats in lecture halls to the upcoming double cohort. Course schedules will have the same number of hours, but you might end up with a wednesday off, rather than saturday. I don’t know if/when any formal decision will be made.

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