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So How Long Is The School Day Now?
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It seems to my eye that school days are way shorter than in my youth. Can anyone confirm
a : The bandwidth (ie when they start in the morning until they finish in the afternoon)
b : The contact/lesson hours
For comparison I started at 8:45 every morning, finishing (on average) at around 4:15 each afternoon (earlier on days with academic subjects in the afternoon, later on days with sports).
That was 6 days a week too (and no - I wasn't a boarder).
I would guestimate at 35 forty minute academic lesson periods, plus three afternoons of sport, plus lunchtime activities and some voluntary (yeah, right) community work after school on one day. Plus homework, lots of homework ...
It seems rather more than I see being done now?
It seems to my eye that school days are way shorter than in my youth. Can anyone confirm
a : The bandwidth (ie when they start in the morning until they finish in the afternoon)
b : The contact/lesson hours
For comparison I started at 8:45 every morning, finishing (on average) at around 4:15 each afternoon (earlier on days with academic subjects in the afternoon, later on days with sports).
That was 6 days a week too (and no - I wasn't a boarder).
I would guestimate at 35 forty minute academic lesson periods, plus three afternoons of sport, plus lunchtime activities and some voluntary (yeah, right) community work after school on one day. Plus homework, lots of homework ...
It seems rather more than I see being done now?
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There was a discussion on TV this morning about cutting back on teaching assistants.
A very angry teacher rang up and said "I have to do 2 hour long lessons every morning plus another one every afternoon."
Yes, most indignant she was.
My school days were interminably long. Mooching about the town all day,with nothing to do.
Stressful too, dodging the muchman.
A very angry teacher rang up and said "I have to do 2 hour long lessons every morning plus another one every afternoon."
Yes, most indignant she was.
My school days were interminably long. Mooching about the town all day,with nothing to do.
Stressful too, dodging the muchman.
I think the picture I'm getting is that pretty much everyone is actually getting the 25 hours "lesson time", but that the bandwidth of "hours in school" has been reduced - possibly to avoid/reduce the problems of (in)discipline when children are not actually in the classroom?
@jim360 - you are right - the 'extra' in my school week was virtually all physical activity of some sort. Fortunately I loved sport (rugby/hockey in the winter and cricket all summer) - it must have been hell being at my school if you didn't. Mind you I did regard cross-country running with a fierce, unwavering detestation ...
@jim360 - you are right - the 'extra' in my school week was virtually all physical activity of some sort. Fortunately I loved sport (rugby/hockey in the winter and cricket all summer) - it must have been hell being at my school if you didn't. Mind you I did regard cross-country running with a fierce, unwavering detestation ...
Our son's infant school has a "core time" of 8.50 to 1500, remarkably similar to my own decades-ago secondary school days (8.50 to 15.25)
But that's not counting (voluntary) "Kids Club" in the morning and "Film Club" in the afternoon - essential extra-curricular activity or convenient dumping ground for parents, depending on your point of view
But that's not counting (voluntary) "Kids Club" in the morning and "Film Club" in the afternoon - essential extra-curricular activity or convenient dumping ground for parents, depending on your point of view
bone idle, lazy teachers?
Well, if that's what you lot think of them, teach your own little darlings yourself, then we'll see just what the teachers do do
They are treated as cheap baby sitters, parents moan and whinge that they have to have their kids at home for 6 weeks of school holidays (those that don't are in the minority),. they chuck their kids into school when they are quite obviously not well enough to go and expect the teachers to deal with them.
I personally think the school day is long enough for my daughter. 08.50 till 15.20 with an hour for lunch and two 15 minute breaks
A teachers job is not done at school end, there is marking and lesson planning to be done to start
When I was at school, we started at 08.45 and finished at 16.30 - long enough in the summer but too long for winter months
Well, if that's what you lot think of them, teach your own little darlings yourself, then we'll see just what the teachers do do
They are treated as cheap baby sitters, parents moan and whinge that they have to have their kids at home for 6 weeks of school holidays (those that don't are in the minority),. they chuck their kids into school when they are quite obviously not well enough to go and expect the teachers to deal with them.
I personally think the school day is long enough for my daughter. 08.50 till 15.20 with an hour for lunch and two 15 minute breaks
A teachers job is not done at school end, there is marking and lesson planning to be done to start
When I was at school, we started at 08.45 and finished at 16.30 - long enough in the summer but too long for winter months
