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What's the deal with classes starting so early in the morning? Is this just a US thing? All through my schooling in Australia we never started before 9 am. Whe
by wycx 13y ago
What's the deal with classes starting so early in the morning? Is this just a US thing? All through my schooling in Australia we never started before 9 am.
When I read the title I though schools would be letting teenagers sleep in for an 11 am start.
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- enra 13y agoSame in Finland. Earliest time was 8am, but also 9am or 10am or later. Also there are no school busses so usually kids just go to school by themselves, starting from the first grade.
- pessimizer 13y agoAmerican public schools are so awful and America's hatred for teachers so strong that many politicians who run on being pro-education immediately try to lengthen the school day without raising teacher pay. It's an act that says both that you're not afraid to attack unions, and that nobody has to pay to improve education, just kick those lazy, stupid teachers into working harder (because more is better, right?) Anecdotally, I don't remember any school starting before 8:45 or so when I was a kid 30 years ago.
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