Schooling in K seems better than P

This is what my son remarked today. Why he thinks it's better here?

1. There are more activities to do as a student, academics or after-school. This year, he got to do Taekwondo, chess, play violin in an orchestra, and join varied once a month activities relating to science and others. All of these he can do right at the school except for the orchestra which also provides a bus service for them.
2. School day starts later and ends earlier. They should be at school at 8:30 (for 4th graders, that is). 
3. He gets to visit his classmates/friends house more easily since everyone at school leaves just around the school area. He can simply walk home with them and play every now and then. 
4. Walking between home and school is pretty much the norm since it's pretty safe to do so with well-made sidewalks and pedestrians. 

On the other hand, here is how it was in his previous school back in my hometown.

1. There were also a lot activities but they have very limited time to do those. There is basically only one day allotted as club day, and the other groups hardly gets a chance to meet after school on non-club day mainly because they finish school pretty late at 4 in the afternoon. More often than not, they would start late or simply cancelled coz the teacher-in-charge is tied up somewhere else: a meeting, out for a school competition, and other whatnots. It's also hard to have a substitute.

Another problem would be finding an available space. Some schoolrooms are located on the main corridors so it's pretty noisy with everyone, and other pupils running around outside. They have pretty much limited play space for the students.

He managed to join scouting, school paper, and one or two other clubs.  He also joined the violin group since they do it at school but had to give up his private taekwondo lessons because the gym is located in a different part of the town.

I will try not go more on that line but the school is pretty competitive nonetheless in spite of its limited resources. There's not enough teachers, space, and other resources for the number students.

2. Students should be at school at 7:30 or 8 o'clock at the most. School hours usually finish at around 4 or 5 for older levels. Most subjects are the same everyday, with 60 minutes for each period for the older students. These includes Science, Math, English, Filipino, and Social Studies. Other subjects like Music, Arts, PE, Char Ed would have shorter period. There are also no official in-between periods break except for the 10-minutes break mid-morning and mid-afternoon. And the big slice of time is for the one and half hour lunch break.

3. Since parents can choose what school to send their kids to, students will be coming from all over the town. Older ones via public ride, while most gets to be picked up by their parents, nannies, or arranged rides. The school has just recently started a school bus that goes to the farther part of town. I can only imagine how hard taking that one everyday, early morning and in the afternoon.

4. In relation to the logistics in no. 3 above, walking can be an option for those who live nearby but with one drawback, the sidewalks are not everywhere. Mostly non-existent in the sub-roads, not to mention any pedestrian. It's not really a pedestrian friendly place.  

So that's about it for now as the year wraps up and the winter break is coming. That is another matter of difference for the next post.