Which school's "organization" you prefer the most? European or American one?

I know Americans (and many people from other countries) don't have to go to school on Saturday. Well, here in Italy WE have to. And I think that's in most European schools.

BUT our school is organized in another different way. You probably have 6-7 hours of school a day, but we just have 5 hours a day, so that we go to school at 8:00 a.m. and go back home at about 1:00 p.m. (1:15 for some schools, 12:50 for others, etc.)

So, we just have 1 "free" day: Sunday.

What do you think? Is it better to do 6-7 hours of school a day and to not go to school on Saturday or to do 5 hours of school a day and to go school on Saturday?

Before I had to go to school to America, I had to do school in Russia. Back there we had.... 4 Hours of school, Sunday off. We also had a 4 month summer vacation.

I prefer the Russian system since there the teachers are more aware of the time limit and spend more time that they have in the class actually teaching then giving the class BUSYWORK.

Well, here in Holland we just have 5-days schools, and I know Belgium also has this system.

I really enjoyed my 2day weekends. Excellent time to do my homework for the next week, since I hardly did any from monday till friday!

Uhm, in Vietnam, it is Mondays through Fridays.. and I had to go to school from 7 AM until 4 PM every day... this was back then, like 13 years ago or so when I was in Elementary School though, but yeah.

However, I'd prefer 5-days schooling, because 6 days would probably annoy me, even if it is shorter days. Why? Because I'd just go and probably skip it realizing that it is a waste of my time since the schoolday is so short. <_< I'd prefer 5 days, but longer classes. In fact, in college right now, I am at college from 11 AM until 10 PM at night every single Mondays, so that I have less school days and more free-days to do whatever I want, or for work, etc. This is just me though.

It has been proven that those who want to learn, will learn in any situation. But people only really have a 1 hour attention span (some at least). Thus, 5 day system is better with all 1 hour long classes would be the best for us school kids to learn stuffs =P

but i wouldn't mind having a block schedule. Haven't had one before =P

I don't like the fact of 6-day school week cause i haven't experienced it, and that means it is wierd to me =)

Norway has school from 8 am to 5 pm, 5 days a week.

I'm unsure how other school system works out, but this way of having school is sufficient enough for me, and I'm not really complaining about it.

I don't know how I'd function without a 2-day weekend.

Saturday has always been my "waste it however you want" day. That's the day to unwind and stop caring for a day. Sunday's my "Do all the homework/chores/etc and then slack off with whatever time you have left" day.

Out of curiosity, in the countries with different school schedules, do work days for regular full-time jobs follow the same different schedule?

[SIZE="2"]There isn't a "European" school organization, Europe has many different kinds of school Organizations within it's countries.

Also, here in holland, in highschool, the amount of hours of school you get each day is different for every class(or it could be just my school..)[/SIZE]

2 free days. You will have one day that you can sleep in and stay up late.

If you have only one day, you can only sleep in on that day and sleep late on the previous day.

It's different everywhere in Europe. In most places in France, you only go to school Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. In other parts of France, you go to school on Saturday mornings. Generally you go to school from 8am to noon, and from 2pm-5pm but it really depends on the region and whether you're in high school or elementary. University schedules are just like they are anywhere in the world.

Saturday has always been my "waste it however you want" day. That's the day to unwind and stop caring for a day. Sunday's my "Do all the homework/chores/etc and then slack off with whatever time you have left" day.

Hey, that what I usually do with my weekends too :o.

I the 5 day school system, the last thing I want is to have less days off a week.

5 days allows for more constructive afterschool activities(assuming that's what you'd do when not at school). With 6 days you have a huge interuption in most days which makes it harder to plan things. That and extra days ends up creating 1-3 hours of preparing and moving to/from school in which a lot of productiveness isn't ussualy happening.

When I was younger, primary schools in Taiwan goes as follows:

Grade 1~2
Monday~Tuesday, Thursday~Friday: 8am~12:30pm
Wednesday: 8am~4pm
Saturday: 8am~12:30pm

Grade 3~6
Monday~Friday: 8am~4pm
Saturday: 8am~12:30pm

They later changed to make the full school day for lower grades tuesday, and made wednesday the short days for everyone. A few years ago, they adopted the American system and made it 5 day.

england has;

monday-friday

(usually) 8.30am-3.30am ish

i finish at 3.05am at my school,

:3

Also, my school are bastards, and they've started to do the Summer Fayre + sports day combined on a saturday, they make it a cumpulsory school day ;_;

no-one goes to them tho

I kind of like the American school system. For high school we went from 7:55am to 2:10pm and no weekends. There was the occasional "Saturday School" if you got a detention and that was usually however many were assigned to you and the time was 8am to 11am. I liked that we got out early enough to be able to go to our after school jobs or finish homework or be with friends and had the entire weekend to do things.

I don't think cutting off an extra hour a day just so you can go on Saturday makes much sense really.

I envy you.. I'd like to have free Saturday too