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Originally Posted by Lanyer

I don't know why schools were shortened to begin with. I always started classes at 8am and did not get out to go home until 3pm.

It wasn't shortened; it was 9-4 for elementary school and 8-3 for middle/high school when I started school, and then it was extended to 4:10 and 3:10 my freshman year of high school.