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jrwhite82
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Most school systems every where in the world are required to have a certain number of days to adhere to state/national/provincial/district requirements.
In the US, it is around 180 days in most schools. So 365-weekends-holidays-vacation = around 180. If you grew up in a state that had a lot of snow/weather related time off, you might remember having to attend class further into June to make up for a winter that was particulary severe with snow storms.
The same goes for Korea, they must have a certain number of school days. Taking this Friday off to start school on a Monday would mean teaching one day later into your summer or winter vacation. And as someone mentioned earlier. Not much academically happens on the first day of school anyway. So making introductions, introducing procedures, learning schedules, etc...doesn't really need to be done on a Monday. It makes perfect sense to do it on a lone Friday. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Most school systems every where in the world are required to have a certain number of days to adhere to state/national/provincial/district requirements.
In the US, it is around 180 days in most schools. So 365-weekends-holidays-vacation = around 180. If you grew up in a state that had a lot of snow/weather related time off, you might remember having to attend class further into June to make up for a winter that was particulary severe with snow storms...
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Unless of course, you are in Michigan... 
http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/special-report-michigans-incredible-shrinking-school-year/
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| Because of snow days and other cancellations, many Michigan districts are not meeting the state�s target of 1,098 hours of instruction per year. The average was 1,066 hours last year across 600 high schools. On average, cancellations (not made up) amount to about a week of lost instruction at each high school. |
According to this article Korean students spend 225 days at school
So yeah there's even less leeway (once you take the summer and winter vacations into account) to have a random day off. |
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| jrwhite82 wrote: |
Most school systems every where in the world are required to have a certain number of days to adhere to state/national/provincial/district requirements.
In the US, it is around 180 days in most schools. So 365-weekends-holidays-vacation = around 180. If you grew up in a state that had a lot of snow/weather related time off, you might remember having to attend class further into June to make up for a winter that was particulary severe with snow storms...
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Unless of course, you are in Michigan...
http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/special-report-michigans-incredible-shrinking-school-year/
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| Because of snow days and other cancellations, many Michigan districts are not meeting the state�s target of 1,098 hours of instruction per year. The average was 1,066 hours last year across 600 high schools. On average, cancellations (not made up) amount to about a week of lost instruction at each high school. |
According to this article Korean students spend 225 days at school
So yeah there's even less leeway (once you take the summer and winter vacations into account) to have a random day off. |
More is not always better. But it gets to a point where not enough is ALWAYS bad. Like Michigan.
225 days a year I'm guessing is probably top 3 in the world. I'm not going to argue effeciency and how many noble prizes Koreans win, blah blah blah. But with so many days required, it does leave little to no room to take a sandwich day here or a sandwich day there. Good links TUM. |
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