Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I didn’t have this experience, because I very regularly had college classes that didn’t start until 5, 6 in the afternoon, but I would expect that if your college doesn’t offer those type of classes, that they likely have some sort of college sport and that’s a pretty big income source for them, because that’s the main reason that most high schools still run Early in the morning to early in the afternoon, despite it’s been proven that’s during a period that is not good for actual information retention, with newer generations.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
High schools run early because one of their primary functions is childcare while parents work and parents commonly leave for work between 7-8 so kids need to be on the bus before then. They then stagger primary, middle, and high school so they can use the same bus drivers for all of them and high schoolers leave first so that they can arrive home first without parents. This is being changed as high schoolers need more sleep but it’s not for sports.
In college you need professors to teach classes and most of them want to work a more traditional schedule so want to be there from 7-3
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
agree with this as well.