Longer School Days? Have they gone insane?

[davester]

I'm with cbelt. I went to school in england until 8th grade, where the hours are much longer and the summer vacation only 3 weeks long. When I moved here, I was amazed at how little time we spent at school and how easy the material was. Of course, we graduated two years earlier in england. I think the current school days are way too short. In many cases the classwork is compressed into timeslots that are insufficient for learning the material.