• Clutter@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    See, this is the problem. Americans do 6 hours, the rest of the world do multiple years of schooling and become good at it!

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    9 hours ago

    6? Back in my day we went for 10 hours a day, walked uphill both ways in the snow in the dead heat of the summer.

  • LumpyPancakes@piefed.social
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    19 hours ago

    Yes, until the fuckers invented homework, thus normalising working behind your hours and bringing with home.

    I’d rather home school than put my kids through that. If I had any…

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      22 hours ago

      America. Not sure I’d call it heavenly.

      Makes for an awkward few hours where dual-income parents have to figure out who is going to watch their kids after school. Drop of them off at grandma’s house isn’t really viable because grandma and grandpa are working too.

      Its not so bad once they to middle school, when they can be left home alone for a few hours or have after-school clubs and stuff to fill the time.

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        20 hours ago

        Don’t they also start at the dumbest time in the US? Like the first class is at 7:30 or something, so people have to get up at the ass crack of dawn to get to school in time. And then classes only run till 14:30, so the kids get home way too early. It makes zero sense.

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          At the high school I went to, first period started at 7:20AM, and school ended at 2:20PM. Though I was in a zero hour choir class, so that started at 6:10AM. I’ve seen really strange start times, though. I heard of a school in the US that started at 7:14AM for whatever fucking reason. Oh, and then there were Wednesdays which were late start days, though I think they moved those to Mondays now, based on the traffic by the schools at that time of day? Can’t remember what time that started, but I’m pretty sure it was like just after 10AM, same 2:20PM end time. None of it makes sense.

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          19 hours ago

          It varies, my experience is with a large district with separate buildings for elementary, middle and high school.

          Yes typically high school starts at 7:30, meaning we’d get picked up by the buss anywhere from 6:45-7:15 depending on how far from the school, and your luck of being first or last on the route.

          Middle and elementary start, and end, later. A lot of that is due to bus logistics, you’d need a lot more busses to get everyone to school at the same time. The same busses drop off the older kids at high school, and then go pick up the younger ones.

          Some places are trying to flip it it so high school kids start later, and the elementary kid starts at 7:30.

          Starting high school kids later would be nice, but create new challenges for child care. Older kids are more likely to have more after school stuff, so getting out at 2 (14), spending an hour or two time at club/sport will get them home around 4 (16). If school ended at 4 (16), they’d be getting home around 6 (18). Because home work is still a thing, that would leave kids about 0 hours of family/personal time before going to bed to get the recommended 8hrs sleep. At least, getting home about 4 gives you about 2hrs a day…/s

          If an elemntarty age kid got out at 2 (14), that would make it even harder on parents. With older kids getting home earlier, that can cover the little time between the young kid and parent getting home (assuming there is an older kid - the first is always complicated)

          A lot of tines its easier if a parent has to go in “late” to work at 9 for a few years, than trying leave at 1:30 (13:30) to get their 5 year old off the bus. (Thats also part of why half day kindergaden is being phased out). Schools are major part of our “day care” system, whether they should be or not.

      • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        20 hours ago

        In more civilized parts of the country we have subsidized after-school care programs for those kids.

        The cutoff for financial aid related to it might be a bit lower than it needs to be, at least it was 20 years ago when ma was pickin’ me up from mine.

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        10 hours ago

        huh i got 13:30 to 17:30, so 4 hours

        at least on public schools from years 1-9

        edit: forgot to mention morning was 7:30 to 11:30

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      United States and it sucked because schools have been underfunded for as long as I can remember (the late 80s), so imagine six hours of the most boring classes imaginable, the vast majority of it spent reading something off either a textbook or a whiteboard/chalkboard. The only classes that had any sort of variety in my schools were art, gym, and computer class.

      Plus when you’re a kid, six hours feels like an eternity.