[HN Gopher] Four-day week at a south London school
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Four-day week at a south London school
Author : robtherobber
Score : 27 points
Date : 2025-01-08 10:40 UTC (3 days ago)
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| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| If you are lucky enough to be born in a family which goes through
| posh London and then goes into posh universities and does a posh
| job in posh London, that is maybe the peak of our civilization
| right now.
| blitzar wrote:
| They still live on the wrong side of the river.
| kjellsbells wrote:
| If you look at the school's website you can see who they
| really serve: the well heeled of SW London: Richmond, Fulham,
| etc. Not, say, Tooting, Balham, Sutton. Which is ironic
| because their location, in Morden, is right in the middle of
| a gigantic sprawling estate of soulless 1930s commuter homes.
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| Easy to laugh, of course, but education is such a fraught
| subject in the UK (parents feel the stakes are so incredibly
| high) that I guess they saw a gap and filled it.
| seeknotfind wrote:
| I've never regretted my education and only wanted more.
|
| > response to concerns about children's mental health and a
| shortage of teachers.
|
| Ha! Getting educated is so bad for children, and how insufferable
| an extra day among their peers must be! Disgusting!
| karmakurtisaani wrote:
| I think the teacher shortage is the true reason.
| kjellsbells wrote:
| Yes. And I suppose "school cuts service 20%" or "school
| raises tuition by 25%" are not such pleasant headlines to
| read, despite being equivalent...
| throw5959 wrote:
| Yes, being imprisoned with a large group of children was
| extremely painful to some of us.
| seeknotfind wrote:
| It _was_ painful.
| throw5959 wrote:
| And we don't want to subject our children to that torture.
| musicale wrote:
| The irony of learning about things like democracy and the
| bill of rights in an authoritarian school that suspended
| basic rights was not lost on me - and schools seem to be even
| more restrictive now.
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| But I have few complaints about kindergarten and
| undergraduate university education.
| CapeTheory wrote:
| Education comes in many forms. School taught me about long
| division and the battle of Hastings, but weekends away with my
| family taught me about societal norms.
|
| We hear lots of complaints these days about how mal-adjusted so
| many children are, but is there any wonder? They are whisked
| from after school clubs to private sports activities, then off
| to bed (or homework) once their mandatory activities are done.
| Some of this is because parents are terrified of being
| considered neglectful by under-stimulating their child - but
| then children never learn to just exist in the presence of
| events which are more important than themselves.
| gus_massa wrote:
| You need a family where one of your patents doesn't work, or at
| least they can pay a full day babysitter on Friday.
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| anybody who goes to these schools have babysitters. i sell an
| app to some of these companies. posh villages has some of the
| best schools in the world and uk.
| ktallett wrote:
| Plenty work 4 day weeks now. This needs to be introduced in
| tandem with work changes. School shouldn't be a babysitting
| service nor an intro to work, it should be about exposure to
| the world around them.
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