I’m an early riser, but not all people are. Some people are more awake in the afternoons, some people don’t really wake up until the evenings. So, how come all full-time education seems to start around 9am-10am?

I know that night school is a thing, but that’s really targeted at people who want to study over many years around their other commitments (e.g. a day job). I’m talking about full-time three- or four-year bachelor’s degrees and above (though exactly the same logic applies to all education really). Surely there’s enough demand for at least a couple of top-class full-time education establishments that don’t even open their doors until lunchtime?

  • BussyCat@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    High schools run early because one of their primary functions is childcare while parents work and parents commonly leave for work between 7-8 so kids need to be on the bus before then. They then stagger primary, middle, and high school so they can use the same bus drivers for all of them and high schoolers leave first so that they can arrive home first without parents. This is being changed as high schoolers need more sleep but it’s not for sports.

    In college you need professors to teach classes and most of them want to work a more traditional schedule so want to be there from 7-3

    • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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      18 hours ago

      agree with this as well. Being said, it definitely has to do with sports being involved as well.

      sports was the main excuse our district used back when I was in HS for not starting later.