Reply To: Will This Ever Change?

coffee – I picture you as a young guy with kids no more than 5 or 6 (weren’t I around when you were just a bachur?)

DY – don’t remember the specifics but there was a 20-25 minute limit for secular and 20-25 for limudei kodesh. Math and language arts alternated days, “Hebrew teachers” as we called them, chose assignments at will that required no more than that time slot. Test days were assigned and there was a sign up, Math tests Mon, Reading tests Tuesday etc with no more than two tests allowed on a day (a test calendar was posted somewhere)

CTL – those times are ridiculous if those kids are coming home from school any later than 3:15. My kids get home after 5, have “night learning” from 7:30-8:45 and are supposed to have supper. I don’t consider 45 minutes humane, let alone 90 minutes.