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As a teenager I always found it suspicious that when I would miss a 7-hour school day, it would take 3 hours at most to do the make up work. If we did that all
by closeparen 7y ago
As a teenager I always found it suspicious that when I would miss a 7-hour school day, it would take 3 hours at most to do the make up work. If we did that all the time, we could learn twice as much!
- imtringued 7y agoThat's just a pragmatic decision. If you have to make up the whole 7 hour school day then you could be in a situation where you are so far behind that you could never catch up. There is this game called Warframe that has a daily login bonus. There is no mechanism to partially skip days if you missed them. New rewards are always added as a new milestone. The end result is that there are rewards that are only available after getting the login bonus for 1000 days. If you stop playing for a year and then come back you will never catch up to the latest rewards.
- closeparen 7y agoI can find 2.25 clearly accountable hours without losing any academic content: - Lunch and recess (45-60 minutes). - Passing periods (27-28 minutes). - Lifestyle activities: art, health, gym, music, etc. (45 minutes). Now some fluffier ones: - Suppose, like a typical Coursera user, I can understand the content at 1.2x classroom speed. There's 60 minutes. - The door-to-door transition period is four minutes. But settling in, packing up, pleasantries, and administrivia probably put the lecture-content-to-lecture-content time at closer to 10 minutes. So there's another 42 minutes. There. I just found 4 hours with losing a drop of college-relevant material.