3 ms·
Billionaires could do this and yet chose not to. Do you ever wonder why American schools finish at 2-3pm rather than run the entire day as Western Europe? So t
by yardie 5y ago
Billionaires could do this and yet chose not to.
Do you ever wonder why American schools finish at 2-3pm rather than run the entire day as Western Europe? So that teachers could get that extra 3-4+ hours of doing the administration side of classroom work (grading, report writing, planning, etc). Even when parents request it there never appears to be enough money for afterschool programs, school districts create and withdraw them all the time depending on budget that you can't actually make plans for them.
- donkarma 5y agowestern europe is a pretty big place dude, which country are you talking about?
- spiralx 5y agoMost American schools finish then because they start an hour or more before schools in most European countries, typical primary school (4-13 years) hours in the UK are 8:30 to 3:30 with an hour for lunch, France is 8:30 to 4:30 but with two hours for lunch and Spain is 9:00 to 5:00 with a two hour lunch as well. In Germany schools start between 7:30 and 8:30, but finish anywhere between 11:30 and 1:30. The number of hours of class per week in the US matches a lot of European countries, but most countries in Europe have schools start and finish later on in the day, and some have extended lunch breaks that also push the end of day forwards.