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School systems have also been moving to starting high school later which has an effect. My high school daughter starts her school day at 9:18am and gets out at
by tssva 3y ago
School systems have also been moving to starting high school later which has an effect. My high school daughter starts her school day at 9:18am and gets out at 4:08pm. If you participate in any after school activities such as a sport you aren't getting home until 5:30-6pm. She then has 2-3 hours of homework a night. Doesn't leave at lot of time social get togethers during the week.
When I was in high school we got out at 1:50pm and had maybe 1-2 hours of homework, not that I did any of it, per night. There was a lot more free time during the week for social interaction outside of school.
- shortcake27 3y agoAmazing how the west blasts the east for child slave labour yet we subject our own children to 12 hour days and call it “school”. Very sad.
- tssva 3y agoAlthough I got out at 1:50, I worked driving a fork lift in a warehouse from 2-6pm after school. A job I couldn't have in most places today as a teen. The 80s were a different time. Even then I still had more free time for friends than my daughter. She is pretty studious and cares about school which makes a difference. I cared more about drinking and getting high with my friends and didn't really do anything for school outside of it.