talking about school on another thread someone came with the euroopian law and that basically children all over europe get the same number of school lessons. would be interesting to find out how much time children spend at school in different countries.
in my country /czech rep/ we have 45 min lessons. grade one starts with 20 lessons a week (daily 8-11.30), by grade five they have about 30-32 lessons a week (8-1.30) all the way to equiv. of A levels. as far as i know at least somewhere in germany it is very similar.
in my country there is about 13 weeks of holidays /9 summer+2 christmas+1 winter+odd days at ester and such/