talk about lessons and homework

[didappointed]

I was 7 when my parents went abroad and I spent most of my school days in continental school. The longest spell was spent in Germany. In Summer our school started at 7.30 am until 12.30 during which we had 2 breaks of 20 minutes and small of breaks of 5 mins. Our lessons lasted 60 minutes. We also had lessons in minor subjects twice a week from 2 to 4 in the afternoon. In Winter school started at 8 till 1, the afternoon lessons 2.30 to 4.30. We were also given homework for those days when we did not attend school in the afternoon. And we went to school 6 days a week. We also had to make sure that we took our printed books and exercise books with us for the appropriate lessons for that particular day.
I wonder what teachers and parents would have to say if this was the same here. We just looked at it as normal.
We could not complain of being stressed, if we did not do our homework we had to do punishment work on top of it.
We had exams twice a year.
But saying this, we did not have TV and all the other gadgets there are now. All we had our school books. We still found time to play outside at the week-end with our friends.

[AliceHare]

That is amazing. I love different cultures attitudes to education. To be truthfully honest I think I would prefer that schedule to what I have now. That way i would have been brought up a harder working student. And as you say we would have to learn how to deal with stress from an early age. Surely that would be better? In Britain we are to nice to our pupils, our GCSE's were far to easy to gain high grades in.
So in what other countries did you study in?