USA: Typically for us, about 7-ish hours, I have to go in the building before classes start before then though, making it about 8 hours. Sometimes, we have half days, but they're pretty rare. We have all our classes, they're just very condensed 4-5 hours.
Here, we start at like 07:00 (Mondays 08:10 or so) and we end at 14:50.
Norway: 6-7 hours apparently, from 08:00-14:00 (2: p.m.) or 15:00. (3 p.m.)
16 Comments
Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 4d
The school I work for runs eight 7 1/2 hours but we could run 7 flat if we had a bigger building or less students. We need three lunch periods to fit them all in the cafeterias.
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 4d
In China it's about ten hours, from 7 a.m. to about 5 p.m. It's going to last till bedtime if you're in the last year and be preparing for the college entrance exam.
Meatwagon@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 3d
That sounds horrible.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3d
Ah yes, the famous 996 culture.
In practice, is it 4 hours of paying attention and 6 of going through the motions, or just goofing off? There's been some research to the effect 8 hours already gives diminishing returns, if you're doing something subtle or complicated.
racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3d
I'm not sure how diminishing it would be, but as a person who went through it, most of the time I didn't nod off in the night-studying sessions. I actually had homework to complete and I remembered knowledge studied during the time. Even if it's diminishing it's still a net gain than those who don't do the extra study, given that I don't stress myself out.
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org · 3 pts · 4d
We don't have high school in Ireland.¹
When I was in secondary school in the early 2000s, the day ran from 09:00 to 16:00 Mon to The, and we finished an hour early on Fri. My sister's school ran from 09:00 to 15:45 every day.
¹I am not being pedantic. Ireland, like Britain, has a two-stage system with primary (5 - 12/13) and secondary (12/12 - 18) schools, in contrast to the tgree-stage system found in France, America, and Japan.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 3d
Thank you for the footnote. Without that, it could also have been pedantry, or the German system, where secondary schools have postsecondary-like specialisations already.
wotaku@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 3d
~6 hrs for me. From 6 am to 11:30am
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3d
6-7 hours in India (0900-1500).
boletus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 4d
Australia: 0900-1500. 6 sessions broken up by recess and lunch.
Fleppensteijn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 4d
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu · 1 pts · 4d
Italy: 5 to 6 h from age 6vro 19. For age 6-11 it's common to have longer school days (8:00-16:00) to give parents opportunity to pick kids after work.
For age 11-13 it's almost always from 8am to 13:00.
For age 14-19 depends on school, usually 30 to 36h per week, often on 5 days.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3d
it was 6.5 hours back in 1994 in the american southwest.
MarieMarion@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 4d
Rural France : 8 to 6, and half-days on Wednesdays.
Or rather, 7.55 (first bell) to 6.
Same for the middle school. My 7th grader's week goes:
Monday 8-6 (with a free half-period before lunch, and the regular 2-hour lunch break), Tu 8-6
W 9-12 Th 8-5 F 10-5.
(But she's an overachiever and signed up for several electives. She could shave off 5 hours from her school week.)
Pandantic@midwest.social · 2 pts · 4d
As an USAian, I was surprised to see 10 hours, but we don't do a 2 hour lunch here so it ends up about the same.
MarieMarion@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 3d
It could be shorter, but not by much: the school restaurant is a 10-minute walk from the school, and of course being French the food is ultra-local, organic, in-season home-cooked three-course meals (plus the cheese course, obviously), which you don't scarf down).
Still, it's annoying. My kid is very young still and 6 is very late for her.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 3d
Mine was 8:00 - 15:00 but I was pretty chronically late and tired because I couldn't fall asleep until around 2am most nights