Before his Iowa school district switched to a four-day week, Jayce Moody often wandered away from his kindergarten and first-grade classrooms. Sometimes, he threw things. He was overwhelmed and overstimulated, his mother said.
It was a huge struggle for him. I mean, we were getting phone calls at 1 oclock in the afternoon every day saying, Hey, hes just not … We cant do this. I was like, OK, well come pick him up. No problem, said Madison Wolfe, who lives in Des Moines.
After the schedule switch to one fewer day a week, Jayce, now age 8, did a 180 in terms of his behavior, his mother said. He rarely fled his second-grade classroom last year.
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