School Time

Creature · 2015-12-20 20:19:22

What do you think about school time? Would you rather have more hours of school per day but less days or have more days of school but less hours per day?

I personally like the way it is in Brazil, 4 hours per day (with likely 200 days of school). I don't think we'll forget what we learned too easily that way.

hummerz5 · 2015-12-20 20:21:33

you get 800 hours.

We do 7 hours for around 180 days (45 * 4)... so 1260 hours a year.
In that regard though, I can see the merit of going like 6 hours a day for 210 days or something... less likely to forget things.

statistic for future people: 365 / 7 * 5 = 260.7 weekdays in a year.

Gosha · 2015-12-20 21:04:27

i have 6-8 hours pew day
study 6 days in a week
have 4 weeks holidays + 93 summer's
okay let's count
there were 52 sundays in 2015.
365-52+17(holiday's sundays) = 330
i have 121 holiday
330 - 121 = 209
209 x 7 (nearly hours in school) = 1463 hours

Gosh
i spend 1463 hours in school every year
There are 8760 hours in a year
8760 / 1463 = 5.98 = 6 !

i spent 1/6 of year in school!

Anch · 2015-12-20 21:28:23

I have 7 hours of school 5 days a week.
I mean it goes by quickly but it doesn't give me much time to do homework and play!

Tako · 2015-12-20 21:28:59

hummerz5 wrote:

you get 800 hours.
We do 7 hours for around 180 days (45 * 4)... so 1260 hours a year.
In that regard though, I can see the merit of going like 6 hours a day for 210 days or something... less likely to forget things.
statistic for future people: 365 / 7 * 5 = 260.7 weekdays in a year.

True but at the same time if you do 8 hours for 150 days, and no more than 4 classes per day, then the class time will be more meaningful. The problem with short days (and my alma mater knows this very well: 7 classes in a 7-hour day, don't forget lunch) is that each day you have to spend X amount of time reviewing what you did the day before, and you make little progress after that. Teachers end up splitting simple assignments into week-long projects and each day time is wasted preparing for the day's lesson.

Think of it this way: would you rather have a lot of time poor quality time or little quality time? That is, quantity or quality?

The solution to your problem of forgetting things is solved by dispersing the breaks throughout the year. Instead of having periodic one-week breaks and then a huge two-month break and a one-month break, maybe cut out Wednesdays and add several more one-week breaks to compensate.

hummerz5 · 2015-12-20 23:00:49

Alright, so there's more to classes than just overall scheduling. I have to disagree with the point that little progress is made after reviewing. Teachers can make do. If review is cut short, you have time for the next thing. Is review an issue? I don't know. My school really sucks, so I can't say for certain about any of this.

But we're neither school administrators nor teachers, so I'm not sure where to go with this.

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JadElClemens · 2015-12-21 00:55:00

In middle/high school I would've said that I'd prefer to go to school for less time every day but more days out of every week.

Now it doesn't matter to me at all because I make my own schedule, so whatever.

gkaby · 2015-12-21 01:07:13

I think its better to have it spread out rather than only a few days a week

though i would personally prefer if school was only a few days a week

Tako · 2015-12-21 02:22:51

hummerz5 wrote:

I have to disagree with the point that little progress is made after reviewing. Teachers can make do. If review is cut short, you have time for the next thing. Is review an issue?

Review isn't an issue, it just takes time, which is a resource. Some teachers work well with modular classes, especially Math and foreign language classes. It's easy to make neat increments in progress. However, topics like English and History suffer when you reduce them to pieces, because they demand a broader view. If you are trying to comprehend what Modernism is, having sharp divisions between Hemmingway and Faulkner won't help you one bit. You'll know the facts but not the meaning. It's even worse with history. People remember Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison, but some people actually believe that they cooperated like modern presidents, that is, not at all. Ha; how wrong can you be! The reason is because teachers, forced to dice history into neat cubes, neglect to connect the dots, or at best do it in passing. In short, some subjects you can't study for with flash-cards.

hummerz5 wrote:

But we're neither school administrators nor teachers, so I'm not sure where to go with this.

That doesn't mean your ideas are invaluable. Sometimes the best perspectives on issues come from people who know little about it in practice--isn't that the idea with Trump and Carson running for president? They haven't been "corrupted" by Congress?

Tamashiimizu · 2015-12-21 02:32:30

It depends on the country, but based from my experience I think 5 days a week with 5~6 hours would be preferable, if not more. Where I live, education sucks, so I prefer to bet on quantity over quality, if the latter is not garanteed.

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