tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483019973725334379.post7030178587445613698..comments2024-02-14T10:09:32.679-03:00Comments on Tropical Daydreams: Teaching Through Chocolate Chip Cookiesbarbara lowensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14096605954965797638noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7483019973725334379.post-55504853271542092812016-02-20T22:39:08.961-02:002016-02-20T22:39:08.961-02:00You are not the first foreign that I come across t...You are not the first foreign that I come across that gets surprised with the fact that kids go to school for only half a day here. Some schools even have the evening session, where kids study from 6pm to 10pm.<br /><br />An acquaintance of mine from Peru came to live in Brazil for a while. He chose Rio. He noticed that the school beside his place was always busy with kids. He was so impressed initially. He thought: "kids here study hard. They spend day and night taking classes." He was shocked when he learned that the school was actually busy with the beginnings and endings of 3 sessions, that the kids making noise at 8am were not the same as those at 12pm and at 6pm.<br /><br />Somehow the State can´t afford to offer all day education for everyone. And somehow it became acceptable that the private schools offer the same sort of short sessions. Some try to compensate the shortness of the sessions by filling up the students with loads of homework, which I think is a very good idea in the absence of another solution.<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Your time with the kids must have been fun! Renanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00461295219676212102noreply@blogger.com