What is a normal school day today?

[DGS49]

When I was in school, the standard was 8am to 3pm, with a little less than an hour for lunch. I never had a "study hall" unless the teacher was absent. What is normal today?

A related question would be, How much time would a "good student" be expected to spend on homework? I remember in HS being told that homework should take about half the time of classroom work, so let's call it 3 hours per night in HS. I never spent anywhere near that much time on homework. In college it was supposed to be 1:1 - an hour study for each hour in class, and that's what I did. Same in law school.

What are the norms today?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Elementary across the street is 7.30 to 2.50.

 

[Hafar1014]

Very little schools are trying to replace parents, they are trying to be mental hospitals, what they dont do is teach children how to think. They teach them what to think

 

[citygator]

About the same today. 7am-2pm for high school. Mediocre students can get away with may 1-3 hours a week of studying and good students are studying 2 hours a night on average. My oldest was straight A's, 3rd in his class at a large high school, and went to med school. Studied 1-3 hours a night in HS depending on workload. My youngest is an A/B student doing the bare minimum which was maybe 2-3 hours a week.

 

[Zincwarrior]

About the same today. 7am-2pm for high school. Mediocre students can get away with may 1-3 hours a week of studying and good students are studying 2 hours a night on average. My oldest was straight A's, 3rd in his class at a large high school, and went to med school. Studied 1-3 hours a night in HS depending on workload. My youngest is an A/B student doing the bare minimum which was maybe 2-3 hours a week.

I can't say on homework. Both kids have near photo memories and both were involved heavily in school, band, and sports.

 

[Seymour Flops]

When I was in school, the standard was 8am to 3pm, with a little less than an hour for lunch. I never had a "study hall" unless the teacher was absent. What is normal today?

A related question would be, How much time would a "good student" be expected to spend on homework? I remember in HS being told that homework should take about half the time of classroom work, so let's call it 3 hours per night in HS. I never spent anywhere near that much time on homework. In college it was supposed to be 1:1 - an hour study for each hour in class, and that's what I did. Same in law school.

What are the norms today?

At my high school, student hours are 8:30 to 3:55 with a half hour for lunch. That leaves seven hours and twenty-five minutes of class time, including switching between classes.

There is much less "busy work" for assignments, but . . . for reasons I won't derail your thread with, the teachers feel the need to spend nearly all of class time lecturing.

For example, a math teacher might take forty minutes of a fifty minute class demonstrating how to solve a problem using pythagorean theorem, leaving only ten minutes to complete an assignment. But the assignment might be four problems instead of the twenty to thirty that we would get in our day. Plus the assignments will be on an app that does not accept an incorrect answer, so the student has to keep trying until they get the four problems correct.

The assumption is that most non-advanced students are not going to work on assignments at home, unless their grades corner them. Even then, they have learned to wait until the last minute for grades and negotiate with the teacher for a reduction in assignments.

 

[citygator]

At my high school, student hours are 8:30 to 3:55 with a half hour for lunch. That leaves seven hours and twenty-five minutes of class time, including switching between classes.

There is much less "busy work" for assignments, but . . . for reasons I won't derail your thread with, the teachers feel the need to spend nearly all of class time lecturing.

For example, a math teacher might take forty minutes of a fifty minute class demonstrating how to solve a problem using pythagorean theorem, leaving only ten minutes to complete an assignment. But the assignment might be four problems instead of the twenty to thirty that we would get in our day. Plus the assignments will be on an app that does not accept an incorrect answer, so the student has to keep trying until they get the four problems correct.

The assumption is that most non-advanced students are not going to work on assignments at home, unless their grades corner them. Even then, they have learned to wait until the last minute for grades and negotiate with the teacher for a reduction in assignments.

I dont think the effort level now is any different. I was an A student who studied. My best friend was a C student who did homework on the bus or just didnt do it. His method was much more normal than mine which is why most people got Cs and Bs back then and not A's.

 

[1srelluc]

0830 - 1530 in my AO.

I think the HS has 0730 classes for the vocational kids that work after school.

 

[Zincwarrior]

0830 - 1530 in my AO.

I think the HS has 0730 classes for the vocational kids that work after school.

Yes both high school and Jr High are longer here

 

[Seymour Flops]

I dont think the effort level now is any different. I was an A student who studied. My best friend was a C student who did homework on the bus or just didnt do it. His method was much more normal than mine which is why most people got Cs and Bs back then and not A's.

yes, I agree. An A student is an A student. The students in advanced classes don't even get the ten minutes, but they can be relied on to work at home.

I think students today have it harder than I did. That independent work time would be at least half the class time and it was nice not to be able to have my own thoughts instead of listening and taking notes.

 

[initforme]

We have a no homework policy on classes that arent college credit.

 

[citygator]

0830 - 1530 in my AO.

I think the HS has 0730 classes for the vocational kids that work after school.

It’s so the older kids can watch the younger kids when they get off the bus an hour later.

 

[1srelluc]

It’s so the older kids can watch the younger kids when they get off the bus an hour later.

Not what I said there Short Bus....Many even go to the local Community College for classes that pertain to their chosen vocation.

 

[citygator]

Not what I said there Short Bus....Many even go to the local Community College for classes that pertain to their chosen vocation.

That’s not why the older kids get out earlier. It’s for the reason I said. Sure you can even get out earlier if you are dual enrolled in stuff like you mentioned but every High School gets out first in towns all over America to help with daycare.

 

[1srelluc]

That’s not why the older kids get out earlier. It’s for the reason I said. Sure you can even get out earlier if you are dual enrolled in stuff like you mentioned but every High School gets out first in towns all over America to help with daycare.

Not in my AO....That's why traffic is a cluster-**** near my home.....A HS, middle school, and two elementary schools, all within a mile, discharge other's spawn within a half hour of each other.

Of course there's hundreds of house-fraus picking-up little Johnny/Joan because they think they are too good to ride the bus.

 

[Cassandro]

When I was in high school, the standard school day consisted of two periods before a morning break, two periods before lunch, and two periods after lunch. PE or ROTC was a required class unless you were involved in after school sports, which started in sixth period .

It was a perfect solution until the teachers unions took over.

 

[Captain Caveman]

When I was in school, the standard was 8am to 3pm, with a little less than an hour for lunch. I never had a "study hall" unless the teacher was absent. What is normal today?

A related question would be, How much time would a "good student" be expected to spend on homework? I remember in HS being told that homework should take about half the time of classroom work, so let's call it 3 hours per night in HS. I never spent anywhere near that much time on homework. In college it was supposed to be 1:1 - an hour study for each hour in class, and that's what I did. Same in law school.

What are the norms today?

It was 8:45am to 3.15pm. there was a morning and afternoon break, maybe 15 mins each, and an hour's lunch. That was back in the 70's/80's (UK).

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

We have a no homework policy on classes that arent college credit.

Really stupid.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

It was 8:45am to 3.15pm. there was a morning and afternoon break, maybe 15 mins each, and an hour's lunch. That was back in the 70's/80's (UK).

Nobody cares.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Nobody cares.

Kevin cares, he told me.