I mean, Cuban schools have similar hours to Western schools, but they also have 90 minutes of free timemultiple times a school day, from what I’ve heard, and we aren’t bashing them, are we?
If these hours in Chinese schools are true, they are legitimately more than the legal working hours for adults (around 45 hours per week). School shouldn’t be a kid’s entire life, just like how work shouldn’t be an adult’s entire life. Let them have enough time to rest, to spend valuable time with friends and family, and to discover what it is that they are good at and want in life.
EDIT: I put 90 hours when it should have been 90 minutes.
From what I’ve heard – and it’s hard to get any reliable information on this from the western internet – school hours in China are so long partly because they’re broken up (as in Cuba) with exercise, meals, and rest times. Also some kind of mandatory study session. And the system, while it may very well need some kind of reform, does seem to work; people talk about “socialization,” but American schools are not exactly doing a great job of that either. The Chinese system, at the very least, seems to produce educated individuals and no mass shooters, while the US system fails on both counts.
I would guess that 12 hours is probably an extreme case, since the fact that the government needed to implement measures (parental sign-in, and so on) to combat video game addiction among minors argues that kids do, in fact, have a lot of free time.
12 hours is a lot but if you have a high homework load or 2-3 hours of sports nonsense you’ll hit 12 hours in a day of “school related shit” in the states
I mean, Cuban schools have similar hours to Western schools, but they also have 90 minutes of free time multiple times a school day, from what I’ve heard, and we aren’t bashing them, are we?
If these hours in Chinese schools are true, they are legitimately more than the legal working hours for adults (around 45 hours per week). School shouldn’t be a kid’s entire life, just like how work shouldn’t be an adult’s entire life. Let them have enough time to rest, to spend valuable time with friends and family, and to discover what it is that they are good at and want in life.
EDIT: I put 90 hours when it should have been 90 minutes.
From what I’ve heard – and it’s hard to get any reliable information on this from the western internet – school hours in China are so long partly because they’re broken up (as in Cuba) with exercise, meals, and rest times. Also some kind of mandatory study session. And the system, while it may very well need some kind of reform, does seem to work; people talk about “socialization,” but American schools are not exactly doing a great job of that either. The Chinese system, at the very least, seems to produce educated individuals and no mass shooters, while the US system fails on both counts.
I would guess that 12 hours is probably an extreme case, since the fact that the government needed to implement measures (parental sign-in, and so on) to combat video game addiction among minors argues that kids do, in fact, have a lot of free time.
12 hours is a lot but if you have a high homework load or 2-3 hours of sports nonsense you’ll hit 12 hours in a day of “school related shit” in the states