Parents of public school students continue to ask state lawmakers to help restore some of the school days lost because of budget cuts.
And parents of kids with special needs are especially worried about the impact of furlough Fridays.
Children with special needs already face an uphill battle of trying to meet similar social and academic levels of their peers.
With no school on furlough fridays trying to reach those academic goals becomes more difficult.
Aubrey isn't like most 11-year olds. Aubrey has down syndrome and autism. She's also hearing impaired. That's why her mother, Desi Mckenzie, was especially outraged when she heard of the news about furlough fridays.
"It just set off a spiral of concern confusion as to how we would do everything with the changes," says Desi McKenzie, Aubrey's mother.
"I immediately went to the school and said listen we need to get aubrey some kind of services on furlough fridays because with the anxiety levels that she has in a new setting we're gonna lose some of the direction that we've gained," says McKenzie.
Most kids Aubrey's age are in the sixth grade. But Aubrey is learning at a first grade level.
"I think that for a child with special needs as their teacher would say to you she needs the repetition and the drill to retain what it is that she's learned through the course of the week and if she doesn't have that she kinda starts back pedaling," says McKenzie.
And Aubrey is just one of many students with special needs facing such challenges of trying to stay ahead.
"But some clients that we have we definitely see a regression and we have some time to recoup the skills so maybe it'll take a week to get back to where we were sometimes it will take us three days it really kind of depends," says Jessica Wong, Behavioral Intensive Support Services.
"We try to encourage parents to work with their kids as much as possible you know not a lot but just to keep them going ," says Wong.
"I think you have to have passion for your child and you have to advocate beyond what you believe is possible at this time," says McKenzie.
