Why do Swiss primary schools finish school at 3 o'clock and don't have to go to cram school?

Recently, I saw many treasure moms discussing what students should do when they go home at three o'clock in the afternoon. Think about it and share the situation in Switzerland. In Switzerland, primary and secondary school students also go home at 3 pm. What should we do?

I have to say, in Switzerland, one. Social wage structure. The structure of family values, these two things are completely different from those in China! Because it's different, children can go home at three o'clock in the afternoon without spending too much money on cram schools or nurseries.

Let me talk about these two points first:

First, the structure of social wages.

In Switzerland, one's salary and domestic salary are not the same concept. In Switzerland, it depends on the percentage of your work.

The so-called percentage concept means that working for a whole day is 20%, working for two days is 40%, and so on. When signing a work contract, it will be clearly written in the work contract. What is the percentage of this job? How many working days? What is the salary?

This is true of any profession, so you will meet dentists with only 40% jobs in Switzerland.

In other words, a Swiss father, even if he doesn't need to work 100% (working every day), will still earn enough to support his family every month, or 50% will be a computer engineer and 80% a teacher.

For example, in a double-income family, it is very common that the father works 80% and the mother works 80%. If it is calculated by 20% of a working day, it is very common in Switzerland. One day, when my father doesn't work and my mother doesn't work, they take turns to look after the children, and the family economy can get by.

Second, the structure of family values.

In Switzerland, many working Swiss women, married or single with children, live close to their mothers, parents and even neighbors. Why? Because Swiss women find it easier for mothers to take care of their children. Personally, I have observed that it is more humane for a woman to let her mother take care of her children. After marriage, a society in which women mainly marry their parents is more in line with family needs. Why? This is because daughters and mothers are unlikely to quarrel with each other like mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

But in China, how many people still marry their daughters-in-law, just to take care of their husbands and be filial to their in-laws?

Take care of your husband and filial piety your husband's family? For the Swiss, taking care of children together and raising them safely are more important family values. In Switzerland, children first and the happiness of young people as the basic premise are the core of family values here. This is completely different from the values of the Chinese world, respecting paternal elders and giving priority to in-laws and husbands and the elderly.

As for Swiss men who don't work 100%, they will stay at home for a few days to look after their children. Will they be laughed at by others Can a man have no ambition without arms and family responsibilities? Basically, in Switzerland, everyone's private life is none of your business. What proportion of their children's work together is something that can be discussed and coordinated between partners, without the guidance of parenting education experts or so-called big coffee.

Basically, this is the reason why children from Swiss dual-income families can go home early without going to cram school, because the father takes care of the children for a few days, the mother takes care of the children for a few days, and then goes to stay with the grandmother for a few days, and a week passes like this.

You may be curious to see this, so what do Swiss primary and secondary school students and teenagers do after school at three o'clock? Don't you study at all? Don't parents here worry about problems after school?

Actually, there is!

Swiss children will take part in various recreational activities after three o'clock. Those who like musical instruments, theatrical performances, sports and work will participate in various club activities on or off campus after three o'clock. Only a few children, especially some immigrant children, will continue to receive knowledge courses after three o'clock because they have just arrived in Switzerland and need special language counseling after class because their homework can't keep up with the progress of the school.

I asked many Swiss children and Swiss parents and found a very subtle phenomenon. In Switzerland, if children who go to cram school after three o'clock are often regarded as weak people with poor academic performance, the Swiss will also face it squarely. Children and parents also love gossip and comparison, so they don't like children to attend remedial classes because they don't want to be thought that they can't keep up with school progress. Some Swiss parents will be unhappy and feel unnecessary if they are persuaded by their teachers to attend after-school tutoring, because they don't want to be laughed at.

In a subtle way, the real worry of Swiss parents lies in picking up and arranging their children's hobbies such as art and sports after three o'clock. Because sports and art activities in Switzerland are often scattered, unlike during the Chinese New Year, a children's palace may be swept away, so many Swiss parents often complain to me that they have to send their boss to a small town to play football at once, then they have to pick up their second child in another city's swimming pool, and finally they have to buy food before the supermarket closes, otherwise it is rare and expensive to eat out of Switzerland. What's for dinner for the whole family?

These real and trivial details of life show the similarities between Swiss parents and domestic parents: rushing for busy families and slowly drawing the details of life growth in ordinary small days.

So now I guess you also think that no system is perfect. Perhaps only through the truth of life itself and the ordinary heart can we get in touch with the essence of life.