UnlimitedHail said: Summer homework? Holy fuck that's some torture only Mr. Ratburn could deliver.
It may sound like torture, but at the kids will be ready for the next school year. So it really is for their own good. I kinda wish schools all around the world adtoped this mentality. Yes, kids should be be allowed to play during summer but we cant have them totally "out of it" when the next school year starts.
Tetsamaru said: It may sound like torture, but at the kids will be ready for the next school year. So it really is for their own good. I kinda wish schools all around the world adtoped this mentality. Yes, kids should be be allowed to play during summer but we cant have them totally "out of it" when the next school year starts.
In and of itself, that does sound fair and reasonable. However given the hyper-competative world we live in and the pressure to excel as much as possible, if every school did try this, I think it would evetually turn into teacher assining levels of homework over the summer purposely designed to take up every minute of the summer (The way I interpret this comic is that Hikari isn't freaking out becuse she has homework over the summer, it's because she has SO MUCH homework that it is literally taking every single second of her life, she looks like she's been at it nonstop for hours/days and the pile is NO appreciable amount smaller). I can't help thinking of the English assignment I was given over the summer one year (though to be fair I was a bit older than Hikari is in this (I was about 15), and it was an AP course) the last day of the previos year we were each handed a copy of War and Peace. Over the summer we had to read the whole book, write a 40 page essay in which we interpreted it through the works of Faulkner and then on the first day of the new class take an in depth test on the book, which would count for 1/5 of our yearly grade. Sorry for the digression.
I'd much prefer we all went to year-round school, except in rural areas where they actually take advantage of the summer season for practical purposes. Instead of a three-month break, it's a couple months, maybe month-&-a-half, but in exchange, there are more frequent/longer breaks elsewhere in the school year, namely fall, winter, and spring breaks. The kids, staff, and even parents get burnt out less, and there's not so long a hiatus that the students don't forget their learnings.
The biggest threats to this are tradition and a lack of universal adoption of the idea (if only a few schools are year-round, scheduling things around that, including parents' work, is made more difficult).
Probably looking too much into this one drawing. But its probably just playing on the fact that alot of japanese kids wait till the last second to do their summer homework. From what i learned from all my japanese freinds. All of them found that they could enjoy summer vacation as long as they did their homework a little every day.
T5J8F8 said: I'd much prefer we all went to year-round school, except in rural areas where they actually take advantage of the summer season for practical purposes. Instead of a three-month break, it's a couple months, maybe month-&-a-half, but in exchange, there are more frequent/longer breaks elsewhere in the school year, namely fall, winter, and spring breaks. The kids, staff, and even parents get burnt out less, and there's not so long a hiatus that the students don't forget their learnings.
The biggest threats to this are tradition and a lack of universal adoption of the idea (if only a few schools are year-round, scheduling things around that, including parents' work, is made more difficult).
Actually from what I understand rural needs was why the school schedule we have now came into being; they put the long recess in the summer so that the kids would be available to help thier parents with the fieldwork, schooling was for the winter, when they wasn't much farm work that needed doing.
Chochobakke said: Actually from what I understand rural needs was why the school schedule we have now came into being; they put the long recess in the summer so that the kids would be available to help thier parents with the fieldwork, schooling was for the winter, when they wasn't much farm work that needed doing.
I know. That's what I meant, that unless you're rural, there's no practical purpose to such a long summer.
