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submitted 2 days ago by satsunami@nord.pub to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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.)

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[-] wotaku@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

~6 hrs for me. From 6 am to 11:30am

[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 1 points 16 hours ago

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.

[-] Meatwagon@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

That sounds horrible.

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

6-7 hours in India (0900-1500).

[-] boletus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Australia: 0900-1500. 6 sessions broken up by recess and lunch.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

it was 6.5 hours back in 1994 in the american southwest.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 day ago

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 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] MarieMarion@literature.cafe 1 points 1 day ago

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 points 1 day ago

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 1 points 20 hours ago

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.

[-] Fleppensteijn@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Anywhere between 8am and 4pm different subjects can be scheduled, each being 50 minutes. Every day can be different, sometimes there's empty hours between classes. Some days you might have 2 classes, other days 6.

[-] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 1 day ago

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.

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