Parents/guardians in this sub — how long are your kids’ school days?
Since most schools seem to end after school activities after second grade, I’m curious what younger kids typically do for the rest of the day if classes only run about three hours. Are they allowed to stay on campus even without scheduled classes?

I’m asking because I grew up in a country where school days lasted 6–7 hours and was very structured, so this setup feels very different to me.

by FinnishAlien

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  2. They have evening activities for the first two years. It costs but not that much.

  3. They either came home after school, usually with a friend or two, or went to a friend’s house with the same group they usually spent time with. My youngest is now 13, just moved up to 7th grade and even though it’s a new school and new class she still has her two besties in the same class with her. And they’ve been besties since preschool. It’s still safe enough to let your kids be kids here lucky enough.
    And of course there were hobbies and activities after school on some days for all of them so it wasn’t always the same routine.

  4. It’s called iltapäiväkerho, afternoon club. That’s scheduled and lead by an adult. Probably for the youngest kids mostly, bigger kids like from ten and up can be at home alone.

  5. The hard reality, people who can afford it: those mentioned afternoon club, but usually they stop after grade 1 or 2, and then nuorisotalo (NuTa), but often it is a lot of screen time, and messing around., and what many people fail to understand, the kind of messing around of the 2020s is not the same as the 1990s for multiple reasons, above mentioned screen included.
    Hobbies usually start after 4, often 5, so there is plenty of time after school where kids of a certain age should be under some supervision but are not. NuTa is okish.

  6. Is there any relevance to the parts which don’t mention the short school days being included in your title, if not, why bring them in?

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