Lexington finds some really lazy Americans. School Students:
American children have it easier than most other children in the world, including the supposedly lazy Europeans. They have one of the shortest school years anywhere, a mere 180 days compared with an average of 195 for OECD countries and more than 200 for East Asian countries. German children spend 20 more days in school than American ones, and South Koreans over a month more. Over 12 years, a 15-day deficit means American children lose out on 180 days of school, equivalent to an entire year. American children also have one of the shortest school days, six-and-a-half hours, adding up to 32 hours a week. By contrast, the school week is 37 hours in Luxembourg, 44 in Belgium, 53 in Denmark and 60 in Sweden. On top of that, American children do only about an hour’s-worth of homework a day, a figure that stuns the Japanese and Chinese.
Ok, everyone knows Asians are driven hard in school-but being told you are lazier than the French? That’s gotta leave a mark.
yeah, and you well know that in Japan and in Korea, once a HS kids gets into a Uni the study ends and the party begins, except for the social networking.
It was that way back in the 70’s and from what I read the trend continues. Thats one of the reasons that Asian students find it real difficult in US schools.
I met a OU prof who complained that the worst, laziest students in her Korean lit class were Koreans (from Korea, as opposed to Korean-Americans) and she was a Korean!!!!
Besides, in Korea, they can bribe their way to a high grade, uh I mean “gift” their way to a better grade.
Not so fast –
http://www.ambafrance-uk.org/Look-at-France-A-day-in-the-life.html
Looks as if their school week taps out at 27 hrs/week, or 84.375% of what U.S. kids spend in school every week, using the 32 hrs/week number.
The article also says that 6.5 times 5 equals 32. Must be that ‘new math’ stuff they’re teaching.