NYTimes: Half-day school? I would haved loved this as a kid …
In Germany, a Tradition Falls, and Women Rise. “Manuela Maier was branded a bad mother. [snip] Her crime? Signing up her 9-year-old son when the local primary school first offered lunch and afternoon classes last autumn — and returning to work.”
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Oh, I was just teasing. I think the quality of your schooling, no matter the schedule, seems higher.
Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 01/20/10 at 03:27 PM
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Well, how would you have liked the amount of homework German kids are expected to do every day? At least when I visited an American high school during a school exchange, I thought that the kids in the US had it better because they had very little homework to do compared to what I was used to.
BTW, my school is going to convert to a full-time schedule over the next few years, and we are talking about what we need to change about our teaching in order to be able to forego all homework, at least until the students reach 10th grade.