"Work should be done at school, rather than at home," French president François Hollande recently explained during a revealing of his education initiatives.
Before you assume French kids are getting the same leisurely treatment their parents get with the 35hr work week, France has a quirkier education system than most of the western hemisphere. How so?
1.) French children only have a four day school week--BUT they attend school from around 8/8:30am until 4:30pm on average.
2.) On average, a typical French child spends 847 hours in class over a typical school year. In the United States or other western nations, a child typically spends around 774 hours in school.
3.) A lunch for French children is a 2-hour break.
4.) While French students typically have a winter, February, and April vacation like American children, French children don't start their summer vacations until July.
Change doesn't happen without someone getting angry, and there are plenty of angry people in France over Hollande's ideas. "It's completely unrealistic," Valérie Marty, president of France's national parents' organization, told the Associated Press. "They have to figure out who will take care of the children, who will finance it."
In other related news, French grandmothers just had a collective heart attack.
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