My question is which is more effective at teaching the average student. In the United States most schools teach their students for 6,7 hours and then send them home with homework at least until college. In some other countries though students go to school for a lot longer. If I remember correctly, students in China go to school for 12 hours a day, 5 days a week with an additional shorter day of schooling on saturday or sunday.

It seems to me that their method of teaching kids is better and don't think that just because it is longer school hours that is worse on the students. I remember when I was younger I would get home from school and start on my homework. Depending on the night it could take me anywhere from 3 hours to finish to all night and I often times was uncertain of whether or not I did something right. So longer school hours isn't necessarily worse in my opinion.

So my question is which would you think the average student would do better with? Longer school hours or homework?

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At my school Year 12 (final year) go 4 days a week with Wednesdays off (guess what day it is tomorrow - **** yeah). We start at 8:45 and finish at 3:25. We have 5 and a half hours of lessons, but I have a free period once every day, with an extra free one day a week for assemblies. We're the last year to get this treatment, next year's Year 12 are going 5 days a week. The only problem with our situation is we have all these free periods in which to do work but nobody does it, we just sit around or go home and sleep for an hour. And Wednesdays are the worst idea ever from the teacher's perspective, I sure don't do homework on Wednesdays. But I have no problem with the way it's set up now, as I don't really care about my UAI (University Admissions Index) anymore, I just want to finish Year 12 as painlessly as possible and get on with my life.

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Longer school hours to be honest.

I'm way too distracted when I'm not at school..I am like the biggest procastinator ever.
Sometimes I don't even bother doing the homework at all.

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I believe that a more practical examination and teaching system would be better than standardized testing and lecturing students to the brink of insanity. That neither measures or developes intelligence. If you put students in a situation where they actually have to think rather than spew out canned answers found in textbooks, I believe you will see an increase in comprehension. Give students a situation were the actually have to use what they know and work things out. For example:

In one of my Criminal Justice classes, we had to actually investigate a mock crime scene, plan out how we would perform the investigations, what parties we planned on involving in the investigation and what resources we would use. The professor could have put that on a test and ask us to choose the right answers (e.g. 'What profession specializes in serial killers?'), but instead he wanted to see if we would be able to do it under our own initiative and without prompting. I learned more from that than 12 of public school.

Also, give students real life situations, not 'Mary needs 3 apples. She has one. How many more apples does she need?' At the very least, make the question interesting.

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Gawd, are you lucky. O_O If you mention 'free periods' over here to any grade level they'd laugh in your face and throw you in the loony bin. I dream of having free periods, just so that I can do my homework then and I don't have to haul it all home.

I'd call for longer school hours if it meant they gave me a free period, but otherwise, I'd rather it be kept as it is. True, this is biased based on the fact that I don't have a problem keeping up in my classes, but the only reason kids in my school are failing is because they're too busy socializing to activate their brains perhaps once in every three days. It's sickening. >_>

Rant aside, they need to make the classes more interactive, but not pair us up in groups with the people we hate the most. Contrary to popular belief, that is horrifically counter-productive. It never helps to solve animosity and it only punishes the students because they get a bad grade, because they couldn't stand the people they were working with. If teachers want to adjust the system, they need to actually observe the students and make changes based off their observations than just assuming more testing will help.

It doesn't.

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Well ive been homeschooled since 10th grade so idk >_< here check it out: http://www.pennfoster.edu/

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Well I suck at doing homework and that's why I hate school lol,so...I guess longer school hours,but I don't think I could deal with 12 hours of school O__O

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Try being at college from 8:30 am to about 5:00 pm for a Bio lab that you really don't look forward to with a very nice, but difficult to understand instructor from Granada with a strong Carribean accent.

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Hmm..I'm pretty sure that would suck.

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In drama i did my rant on hw, i basically said that it gives kids bad attitudes towards school and takes away thier curiosity in learning. it can also cause arguments about the hw between parents and kids.