A friend's daughter attends the American International School here in Switzerland. She was telling me about her school "routine" last week, and I thought you might find it interesting.
They are on a 7 day schedule over here, the reason being is for Winter; each Friday from November- March is mandatory ski day. That's right.... each student from K-12 has ski class every Friday!! If they are just learning, their on the bunny slope but if they know how to ski, they can pick their trail, the hours? 8:30-2:30 of course! Now why didn't I have a class like that in school?
This is just another example of what is open to Foreign Service Students, they are given great opportunities to accomplish wonderful adventures. It's really a shame schools in the States have such limited funding' we all should be able to provide the best in Education for our children. I also wonder if programs like this were available- would the children be more eager to learn? Or would it even make a difference?
We do do this in the US. You could take surfing as a class at my high school and surf from 9-12 every Friday for your PE credits.
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