To think a 3:20 finish is absurd?

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It’s mostly mums at the school gates. Because the 3:20 finish worked well at a time when most women stayed at home.

now most women work, which means two parents working, why does school finish ar 3:20?! Yes I know there are after school classes etc but some don’t go on for too long and they also cost.

what actually is the reason why the school day isn’t aligned with a work day (like it is with most private schools!)

Yes, I did point that out.

Because they are there to claim their right to education, not to get them out from under your feet so you can work.

Also the children have much longer breaks, loads more outdoor activity to break up the sitting down learning. They get decent cooked meals twice a day in most private schools to keep them going as well.

My secondary changed from finishing at 3.50pm to 3.20pm in 1983

I doubt if she's going to tell you.

But the work they do after the kids have gone can’t be done at the same time as teaching! That’s why they do it after school. Also I don’t stay in the building every night until 5 as I actually have my own children to collect. They are in the wrap around care I pay for, but I still have to leave early enough to collect them from it. My two hours ( or more) work is usually done when they are in bed.

I know, I'm just needling her because people who can dish it out but not take it annoy me.

Exactly

For starters they have about double the staff-child ratio and the funds to pay extra staff to manage homework clubs. Add to that that in most of them, every child has been selected for academic prowess and good behaviour, and that they can throw a disruptive child out at any point, and you have a very different type of school day.

6pm at my DC’s private school. Included in the fees.

You want your kids to be stuck in school for 8 hours a day? Would you have enjoyed that?

Let me guess, you’re a teacher!

So obviously true it's hard to believe the OP can't grasp this. Also, love the username.

Oh do troll off @TouchoftheTism

I have no idea if you have kids but, if you do, I'd be happy to teach them to be better informed than their parent.

I very much doubt they were in taught lessons until 6pm.

It's wraparound care, covered by the fees.

State education does not include wraparound care because it's providing free education, not free childcare.

School is not your childcare. The world does not revolve round you. People work all different hours.

Theres plenty in breakfast and after school clubs so at school for 10 hours. I agree thats too long but an 8 hour day would benefit parents loads.

France: 8:30-16:30 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday for primary.

Wtf well if they’re boarding you’re not picking them up are you? Are you claiming they actually have lessons until 6? At primary school age? Because they don’t. Also have you heard of a thing called after school club?

Private juniors normally finish at that time and secondary school about 4pm. Why do you think private schools work until much later?

most schools ahead before and after school clubs these days. I never had a problem with picking them up 5-6pm.

What do they do on Wednesday?

It's the cost of living really. None of us should have to work all hours out whole life. Ideally life would be affordable with 2 parents working 0.75 of a full time week or similar. Reducing hours a bit (both parents) should be doable for a few years of your adult life.
It's so unfortunate that people have a lot less family help these days due to moving or timing or just having crap families.
I've seen lots of posts on here from women saying they have no intention of doing childcare when older and I totally get that. Can't say I'd be too keen myself but then I would likely be much older than my parents were (timing!).
I don't know the answer, seems it's still women having to do it all. But the answer certainly is not to instutionilise our children.

Nothing beats a great teacher.

I’ve taught in two and have friends in several others. It varies. But anything beyond curriculum hours (usually the same lessons but longer breaks) is clubs. Sometimes charged extra for, sometimes compulsory and included in the fees.

Or there needs to be a proper discussion about this, at a societal level. If the government wants to solve our current productivity crisis, get large numbers of women out of economic inactivity, ensure the birthrate doesn't plummet to South Korea- style levels and solve the looming agei g demographic crisis without aggravating the far right by importing increasing numbers of immigrants, then we need a proper joined up childcare system. Rather than mothers desperately running themselves ragged trying to plug the gaps in a system that doesn't work.