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> The idea that children 'do homework until midnight' is similarly stupid. It's not an idea. It's commonplace fact (at least in the US). When I was in school,
by thomastjeffery 10y ago
> The idea that children 'do homework until midnight' is similarly stupid.
It's not an idea. It's commonplace fact (at least in the US). When I was in school, it was very commonplace for teachers to assign an absurd amount of busy-work to take home, and for kids to have several extracurricular activities immediately after school.
The average schedule for a student at my high school consisted of a 7 hour block (including 30min-1hour lunch), then 2-3 hours of whatever sport (or other organized activity) they were a part of, then (if they actually did it) 2-4 hours of homework.
It may be about education, but the totalitarian system that has been created is very controlling, and very stressful.
- milesrout 10y agoRight, so you're continuing to make things up by pretending that education anywhere that isn't the US is the same as education in the US.
- thomastjeffery 10y agoI made no such assertion, in fact, I explicitly mentioned that my anecdotal experience was in the US, and nowhere else, just to clarify that fact. You are continuing under the assumption that I am taking about any education system outside of the US. Even so, looking through the comments here, I see very similar sentiment from someone in Germany, so it seems likely to me that we are not alone.