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There's also the much-cited football problem: if high schools ended at a more reasonable hour like 3PM or 3:30PM, this causes problems for football coaches, who
by aab0 11y ago
There's also the much-cited football problem: if high schools ended at a more reasonable hour like 3PM or 3:30PM, this causes problems for football coaches, who might see their after-school practices running to 6PM or something.
I'm reminded of how my school district carefully made sure that the austerity or budget-freeze budgets which happened when voters failed to approve their preferred budgets always just happened to not have enough funding for football...
- tedmiston 11y ago> There's also the much-cited football problem: if high schools ended at a more reasonable hour like 3PM or 3:30PM, this causes problems for football coaches, who might see their after-school practices running to 6PM or something. I checked my high school and others districts to confirm they operate on an 8 am - 3 pm schedule +/- 30 minutes. Is this uncommon?
- danieloaks 11y agoSame over here in Aus, those are standard hours for most every school I've seen.
- _kyran 11y agoLittle later in my experience (vic) 9am to 3:20
- pbhjpbhj 11y agoThat's standard UK primary school (4-11yo) hours too.
- Normal_gaussian 11y agoAnd pretty much the same for secondary. 560 min or 650 min periods, 45 min lunch, 15 min morning break. 6 hour minimum day. Any extra time is padding for registration or longer breaks.
- Normal_gaussian 11y agoAnd pretty much the same for secondary. 560 min or 650 min periods, 45 min lunch, 15 min morning break. 6 hour minimum day. Any extra time is padding for registration or longer breaks.
- Pingviini 11y agoHere in Finland, schools start at 9 or 8 depending on schedule and end between 1 and 3 with enough time for Sport after. I think moving up school time would be feasible for US too. As an Exchange student during my HS years, waking up at 0515 was just insane.
- ryanlol 11y agoEven later actually, since 75 minute classes are pretty common nowadays it's often 8:15,9:45,11:30 (lunch break causes the inconsistency here).
- emidln 11y agoI don't think any of the sports coaches I played for would have cared if practice took until 6pm. Sometimes it did take that long (or longer, until dark) except that after the state-limited amount of practice time an "optional" senior-led workout was what we told everyone we were attending. If we had more time before school, our light conditioning could have been a full-blown practice.
- terinjokes 11y agoIt could just be daylights saving time fooling me, but I did lacrosse in high school and practices went until it was dark.
- pink_dinner 11y agoWhen I was in high school in the US 20 years ago, it was 8:00am to 3:15pm. This seems pretty reasonable to me.