this question is from my daughter. she needs a second opinoin.lol
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Why would this be hard to believe? Kids in the United States go to school five days a week...
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They go 6 days a week and year round
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Nope! They go to school six days a week.
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They have to usually go 6 days a week and sometimes on Sunday too to work on projects. They have tons of homework and have shorter vacations than kids in the US. I don't mean a little shorter either. American school looks like a joke compared to school in Japan.
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Our family hosts students from Japan while they are in the US to improve their english. They tell us that Japanese Students go to school Monday through Friday and have a much longer school day than American students (8am to 5 or 6pm). They also do all their school work at school. (no homework) Many of them ride the train to school. Sometimes a 1 1/2 hour ride each way. Every student I've met wore a school uniform until after high school. All the our guest students have attended private school so maybe this is diffrent in public school (assuming they have public school).
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I suppose it varies by age, and whether it's a municipal school or a posh school! My daughter is 9 years old, and she goes to the local municipal elementary school. They go 5 days a week, with the older kids having longer days than the younger ones. There are 6 lessons in a day, 4 before lunch and 2 after. For the first term of the first grade they go home at lunch time, then they stay for lunch and a fifth lesson - most days - as I recall they had 2 days when they left after lunch. Monday and Wednesday I think...! Then each year the number of lessons is increased, my daughter is in grade 4 now, and she has 6 lessons every day except Wednesday! That day she has 5. The 5th class on Mondays is a 'club', although it IS compulsory, so it may as well be called another lesson...! However most kids in Japan have at LEAST one extra-curricular class ... often English, or piano, or Kumon ... so the learning day can be VERY long, and some of these extra classes are on Saturdays, or even Sundays. There are also sports activities in the school grounds at the weekends ... I don't know whether or not they're compulsory, but no-one's insisted that my daughter do it!!
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