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Current school days are an artifact of pre-industrial agrarian culture. It's highly unlikely that summers off, or having kids leave for school 2-3 hours before
by lumost 6y ago
Current school days are an artifact of pre-industrial agrarian culture. It's highly unlikely that summers off, or having kids leave for school 2-3 hours before their parents leave for work is the best organization.
Ideally I'd like my kid to have school time similar to my working hours with before/after-school activities to fill time. Simply creating block time for students to work on homework/essays would likely improve education outcomes for many students.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoYou're looking at it from the point of view of the structure of society. From that perspective, you have a reasonable point. But I'm thinking in terms of what children can take. I'm not sure a seven-year-old needs to work an eight-hour day. (I like the idea of leaving time for kids to do their "homework" while at school, though.)
- acwan93 6y agoBut children wouldn't necessarily be learning in a classroom the entire day. Even today there's a bunch of extracurriculars (band practice, sports, etc.) that occur between dismissal up until dinnertime. If these "after schools" or "buxibans" (as I grew up around) became integrated into the school system itself that seems the most ideal. It would certainly kill off a secondary market of cram classes, for better or for worse. Homework might not even be a thing at that point since they could just do it at school, as you mentioned.
- t-writescode 6y agoIf you would like your children to be cared for for longer than 8 hours a day, and it seems that you do, then we're going to need 2 shifts of the kids being watched, and we're going to need to pay for that. Requiring employees to work longer hours is a bad look. The 40-hour-max work week was won with blood. (edit: by unions, funny enough).