Comment on Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling?

• igmelonh@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No

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• Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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

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• stumu415@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Consequence of “general education”. School is only 6 hours per day. Reading, 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.

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