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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

US classes are 20-30 minutes long?

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It varies a lot from one school to another, at mine we did "block scheduling" so you had 4, 90 minute classes a day, and different classes 1st and 2nd semester

Which had its pluses and minuses. You could definitely get a lot more instruction time in during a class that way

But for something like a language, if you're unlucky and your schedule works out that you had it first semester one year and second the next, you're basically going a whole year where you may not have practiced those language skills.

Other schools around me I think usually had 45 or 60 minute classes, but sometimes electives which might include language might have gotten shorter timeslots than core classes

[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Because all you need to know is in the Bible. Earth is 6000 years old. Dinosaurs are an invention from the woke left. Jesus is white. That's the curriculum for ya.

[–] igmelonh@feddit.online 3 points 1 day ago

No. My high school was 6 55-minute classes with 5 minute breaks between to get to your next class, plus a 45-minute lunch. 7 classes if you elected to take another class starting at 7am instead of the usual 8am. School was just under 8 hours long with 7 classes.

[–] disregardable@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Consequence of "general education". School is only 6 hours per day. English, math, science, history, and gym are all required. That's 5. Want to add health, sex ed, art, music, foreign language, programming, speech and debate, driver's ed? The more you add, the more you have to shorten the classes. My school had a lot of curricular options, so my classes were short. If a school has less to offer, they may have longer classes.