re: Acadia Parish to move to 4 day school week

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Which is dumb because the length of instruction today is already too long. Why do we make 1st graders sit through class for 8 hours a day but college students sit through at most 4 hours a day?

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Because public education is nothing more than free daycare at this point. And I work in education.

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Why do we make 1st graders sit through class for 8 hours a day but college students sit through at most 4 hours a day?

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cause universities are coddling the college students. Its fricking laughable.

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Which is dumb because the length of instruction today is already too long. Why do we make 1st graders sit through class for 8 hours a day but college students sit through at most 4 hours a day?

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College students are expected to spend significant additional time outside of class studying and doing assignments, unsupervised.
For a worthwhile degree, it is absolutely a must if you want to pass with a good grade. Plenty of college lectures could be cut because they're no help towards passing the class.
I am not saying that 8 hours of class time for a 1st grader is all that beneficial towards learning, but this comparison is apples to oranges. A college student should treat college as their first real full time job and dedicate 40 hours a week to it, if not more.