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Quote: Aaron @ June 28 2009, 9:27 PM BSTWhat other breaks do you have during the year? Generally, schools have 3 terms, with 2-week breaks between them, and a 1-week half-term break in the middle of each of those. So 6 weeks off over summer, and 7 the rest of the year, plus the odd handful of days as bank holidays etc - makes around 3 and a half months off school (not including weekends).
We tend to have 4 9-week (180 days total) terms. There is a break from around the 18th of December until just after the first of the year. Then there's a week or two off around Easter (Spring Break). The rest are single-day holidays (Thanksgiving is 2 days) and summer is about 10 weeks.
Aw! I did DofE. It was fun.
Spring Break- isn't that when all the sluts go off and let the Frat bros poke them on holiday whilst MTV film it, as the parents are sat at home wondering whether their innocent daughter is having a good time...
Quote: DaButt @ June 28 2009, 9:34 PM BSTWe tend to have 4 9-week (180 days total) terms. There is a break from around the 18th of December until just after the first of the year. Then there's a week or two off around Easter (Spring Break). The rest are single-day holidays (Thanksgiving is 2 days) and summer is about 10 weeks.
Little bit less than us then. I'm told that there are a total of 39 teaching weeks; 195 days. I'm not sure if that takes into account bank holidays though.
Quote: Scottidog @ June 28 2009, 9:37 PM BSTSpring Break- isn't that when all the sluts go off and let the Frat bros poke them on holiday whilst MTV film it, as the parents are sat at home wondering whether their innocent daughter is having a good time...
Yep. Everyone flocks to Florida and the Gulf beaches and carnage ensues.
Quote: Aaron @ June 28 2009, 9:37 PM BSTLittle bit less than us then. I'm told that there are a total of 39 teaching weeks; 195 days. I'm not sure if that takes into account bank holidays though.
My 180-day figure takes holidays into account. If schools miss more than a day or two due to snow or other natural disasters they are required to make the days up during the summer.
Quote: DaButt @ June 28 2009, 9:40 PM BSTYep. Everyone flocks to Florida and the Gulf beaches and carnage ensues.
My 180-day figure takes holidays into account. If schools miss more than a day or two due to snow or other natural disasters they are required to make the days up during the summer.
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Quote: DaButt @ June 28 2009, 9:40 PM BSTYep. Everyone flocks to Florida and the Gulf beaches and carnage ensues.
My 180-day figure takes holidays into account. If schools miss more than a day or two due to snow or other natural disasters they are required to make the days up during the summer.
Wow, really? I'm not sure if that's the case here. I think they just have to teach a specific set of stuff.
Either way, sounds like US and UK schools are pretty much the same. Possibly us a little more, but by no significant margin - although do your school days last longer than ours? 9-3:30 ish.
Quote: Aaron @ June 28 2009, 9:45 PM BSTWow, really? I'm not sure if that's the case here. I think they just have to teach a specific set of stuff.
Either way, sounds like US and UK schools are pretty much the same. Possibly us a little more, but by no significant margin - although do your school days last longer than ours? 9-3:30 ish.
I'm pretty sure we have laws/regulations that say students have to have a certain number of days in class each year.
Our hours are about the same. I remember being in class as early as 7:30 and as late as 4. It depends on each school's schedule. The counties arrange the schedules to maximize the efficiency of school buses. Most schools provide a bus if you live more than 2 miles from the school (many people do) so they try to make sure that little kids aren't standing on the side of the road at 6 in the morning, etc.
We all know what the problems are. Not enough of a deterrent. If they go to prison (if there's room) they get weak sentences and all sorts of luxury inside.
We need to kick out all these do-gooders and politically correct lovers who have never been on the receiving end.
Make prison a hardship and make the sentences fit the crime.
I'm not sure making prison too hard always works. But I think there should be way more emphasis on kicking drugs, education and developing job skills.
The revolving door side is pretty stupid. Guy comes out of prison no home, no job, no money and no honest prospect of them. What do you expect?
We should stop making crime a rational choice (e.g. one that any of us would be likely to choose),
Really horrifying. To kick someone in the face is unthinkable. What happened to fights that used to just involve trading insults? At the worst there would have been a slap or a shove...It's gone so hardcore now, so extreme.
I hope there's a speedy recovery here.
Quote: sootyj @ June 28 2009, 10:14 PM BSTI'm not sure making prison too hard always works.
Well it's not going to work on its own. But right now there is no deterrent whatsoever to going to prison. Quite the opposite in fact; cushy accommodation, good food, entertainment, criminal training, and some "respek" and "cred" when you're released. And all for free.
I think people should have a chance to change in prison, which is the current intention but doesn't happen.
The reason prisons have TVs and games machines is it's about the only way to prevent continual riots due to overcrowding.
Should prison be a harsh experience with out TV cigarettes and leisure? Yes.
But it should also be an opportunity to repair some of the damage done to the people who end up there. Counselling and education could be provided by training volunteers and making succesful completion neccesary for sentence reduction.
Currently it's a storage space for trouble and a cheap alternative to proper mental health care.
Quote: sootyj @ June 28 2009, 10:22 PM BSTBut it should also be an opportunity to repair some of the damage done to the people who end up there.
Most people in the U.S. who wind up in an actual prison are not rehab material. By that time they're hardened criminals.
The average inmate has been arrested many times before he/she winds up in prison. All those arrests result in hours or days in county jails and temporary lockups. The first-time offender is likely to find life in a cage unbearable and clean up his act. I don't think most "experienced" convicts are keen on being rehabilitated.