The Fifth Day Experience is an opportunity to transform our students’ learning experiences by restructuring the traditional school calendar to include 13 Fridays between Friday, February 5th , 2021 – May 14th , 2021 (except, 2/5 & 4/2). The Fifth Day Experience applies to high school students who attend Butler Tech’s high school campuses (Fairfield Township, Monroe, West Chester). The overall goal of the Fifth Day Experience is to enhance students’ education and growth through freedom and flexibility based on their interests, needs, and ambitions, ultimately creating highly competitive graduates.

These Fridays are school days! This is a change from last year. The difference on Fridays from 1st semester to the Fifth Day Experience is that students will have additional opportunities to choose from each Friday. They can work with their current teachers and schedule a Fifth Day Experience, OR, complete schoolwork and some Fifth Day Experiences Virtually. Students can personalize their learning opportunities for Fifth Day Experience!

Yes. They can either be on campus, working virtually (school work or online FDE opportunities), or completing work-based learning assignments (co-ops, internships, etc.).

Students will have the opportunity to participate in intervention with current teachers, as well
as Fifth Day Experiences each week.

• The difference on Fridays from 1st semester to the Fifth Day Experience is that students will have additional opportunities to choose from each Friday.
• Work with their current teachers and schedule a Fifth Day Experience
• Complete schoolwork and some Fifth Day Experiences Virtually
• Or, Participate in Work-based learning (co-ops, internships, etc.)

For the month of February, students will primarily stay on their respective BT campus for FDE opportunities. Plans for succeeding months will be determined pending on COVID protocols and mandates.

External Fifth Day Experiences: 

Students participating in an individualized External Fifth Day Experience (co-op, internship, job shadow, etc.) must access their own transportation.

Internal Fifth Day Experiences:

Internal options arranged by Butler Tech will occur during regular school hours each campus’ schedule is the same as this is a school day.

Normal bus transportation will be provided to and from Butler Tech for bus riders.

Student drivers may drive themselves to the Butler Tech campus.

If the students’ internal option is not a full-day experience:

• Bus riders must be working with a teacher or registered for both a morning and afternoon
  sessions. Otherwise, the student must have the required parent permission to leave.
• Student drivers may arrive at the time of their scheduled on-campus experience and leave once their Internal Fifth Day Experience is complete.

Yes. Attendance will be taken and parents/guardians will be contacted if a student is absent from the Internal Fifth Day Experience they registered to attend.

External Fifth Day Experiences: 

Students participating in an individualized External Fifth Day Experience (co-op, internship, job shadow, etc.) must access their own transportation. Therefore, you will not be affected by calamity delays or closures at your home school or Butler Tech campus.

Internal Fifth Day Experiences:

Internal Fifth Day Experiences (occurring ON Butler Tech campuses) will occur ON TIME regardless of individual home-school calamity delays or closures. Internal Fifth Day Experiences will only cancel if the calamity (weather, building issue, etc.) causes the entire Butler Tech district to close.