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How long are the school days? How are the kids encouraged to get up and move around and also to connect with their peers? My brother and his wife are teachers

by ljf 6y ago

How long are the school days? How are the kids encouraged to get up and move around and also to connect with their peers? My brother and his wife are teachers at a private school in the UK and they say the kids are struggling there. 8.30 to 4pm is a long day for a child to sit in front of a screen, without much freedom. Also a lot of what is fun about school for younger kids isn't the learning or even the activities, but the doing things together and figuring out things as a group - which is possible remotely but much harder. Esp for the under 10s.

emteycz 6y ago
> How long are the school days? I don't know of a private school around here that has school days with defined length. Children are learning asynchronously from various physical and digital learning materials, collaborating together on projects, and having private consultations or small group lectures based on their requests. Yes, the children are actually eager to learn stuff there! > 8.30 to 4pm is a long day for a child to sit in front of a screen, without much freedom. Not a single private school here is forcing children to do that, they have to care about children happiness and success - their profit depends on it. All public schools here do that, and don't even allow children to have a pause for lunch (yes, really - e.g. both my sister and brother are forced to sit in front of a screen from 8 AM to 3:30 PM [7 AM to 4:30 PM 2 days of the week] with only 5 minute breaks each hour). It's extremely wrong, I agree. Sadly, not forcing your children to be present as the school requests is a crime. > a lot of what is fun about school for younger kids isn't the learning or even the activities, but the doing things together and figuring out things as a group Yes, absolutely! The private schools around here are frequently taking the children outside, on various field trips or excursions, and the children can meet at the school in a safe way (small groups, etc) to do projects and play together. I still haven't found a public school doing anything resembling that now. And pre-pandemic public schools were about sitting quietly without movement and writing down whatever the teacher writes on the whiteboard, and about guessing answers to frequent stressful tests - basically nothing has changed nowadays, only the parents have now noticed how miserable the children are.

by ljf 6y ago

emteycz 6y ago

> How long are the school days? I don't know of a private school around here that has school days with defined length. Children are learning asynchronously from various physical and digital learning materials, collaborating together on projects, and having private consultations or small group lectures based on their requests. Yes, the children are actually eager to learn stuff there! > 8.30 to 4pm is a long day for a child to sit in front of a screen, without much freedom. Not a single private school here is forcing children to do that, they have to care about children happiness and success - their profit depends on it. All public schools here do that, and don't even allow children to have a pause for lunch (yes, really - e.g. both my sister and brother are forced to sit in front of a screen from 8 AM to 3:30 PM [7 AM to 4:30 PM 2 days of the week] with only 5 minute breaks each hour). It's extremely wrong, I agree. Sadly, not forcing your children to be present as the school requests is a crime. > a lot of what is fun about school for younger kids isn't the learning or even the activities, but the doing things together and figuring out things as a group Yes, absolutely! The private schools around here are frequently taking the children outside, on various field trips or excursions, and the children can meet at the school in a safe way (small groups, etc) to do projects and play together. I still haven't found a public school doing anything resembling that now. And pre-pandemic public schools were about sitting quietly without movement and writing down whatever the teacher writes on the whiteboard, and about guessing answers to frequent stressful tests - basically nothing has changed nowadays, only the parents have now noticed how miserable the children are.