The Educational System changes depending on the country, I would like to know how is it in your country. Like, the way the teachers give the class, if they have scholarships for the students, if they give elective classes and how they work; stuff like that and if there's anything else you would like to add. I would like you to help me with this cuz I have to write a report about it. So please tell me your country and how's the Educational System :)

(P.S. I apologies if this doesnt go here, I didnt know where else to put it)

In Australia it varies. There are those that have poorer income or start out new, and those exclusive ones that have been around for years. The teachers can range from fairly nice, to openly calling someone an idiot or swearing. But no one really minds. A large amount of the Christian kids that WOULD care go to the Christian school (in my area anyway). Although, sometimes those kids can be worse than the average kids. Using a 'god-loving and sweet child' act, making people never suspect them. Personally here, the teachers can be laid back on some days. Giving us simple tasks or researching easy things if they think we have deserved it. Others; such as my Math Methods teacher (advanced maths), have been teaching for many years. Therefore forget that the work CAN be too hard if new students are introduced to it, and just get's annoyed a lot. Usually expecting high grades. However, there are a large amount of idiots we have to deal with. Example: Just yesterday, because of so many students fooling around (I was not in that group of about 5), the whole English class of mine must stay in for 40 minutes out of the 45 minute lunchtime. She added 5 minutes every time they continued, and took 5 off for every quiet 10 minutes. So really; it depends on the school, how much it costs, how long they've been teaching...
Yes. At my school we have scholarships for the approximate 700 students. Including about 6 academics, 7 sports and 1 school spirit scholarship. But it can vary. We are simply a casual, public school with some advanced programs.



Anything else I can help with?

I was saying we have 700 students with about 14 scholarship students. Some may only get half scholarships though, depending on the year level and academic level

>>2 Sounds interesting. Thank you, that's pretty much what I need :)

>>4 Nothing you don't understand??

>>5 Let's see, are there like, specialized school that still are public schools? Let's say, a school specialized in music, sports or science? And, do you ever take a certain exam that all of the public schools must take at the same time? Cuz that happens in my country once a year but only with the students of public schools.

Yes there are. I know someone with an amazing talent for singing that went to a music one. And I am debating about whether going to a science one 3 hours away.

Some year levels do. Year 3, 5, 7 and 9 take a test called NAPLAN, which is an abbreviation. I don't know about many things above year 10, as I have only not long started that year myself. So year 10, 11 and 12 I wouldn't know that much about

I see, okay :)

anything else? It's quite easy to help you with this

Nah, but thanks a lot :) I just need pretty much the same info but about other countries xD

our educational system is quite in a chaos these days, since the government began implementing a new curriculum... :D

Like >>11 says, in my region, the educucational system is pretty fucked up right now. Our days are screwed up, and the way teachers teach is evolving. I personally hate the new online Carnegie system -.-

Yeesh.. why do you need to know about this, schools are pretty troublesome we all know this. well then tell me what happened to your country @Kimiko, what did it do to make you post about this?

Our educational system is quite bad. It is 'memory centered', so when we study our lesson we forget the half in less than a week. It would be quite better if it was more practical and people would get more involved like in other countries. Also, teachers don't need a remotely high mark to enter the career, so you can find lots of dumb teachers. Also, our government is more centered on make university more expensive each year, so lots of students of less favoured families are almost uncapable of paying them. Quite sad scenario in general.

School isn't easy for us. Teachers give the class okay, they are writing on board or telling us what to write(what is important). And we have sometime normal tests depending on a month(more of them at the end of a school year)and oral examinations in every subject. These examinations are random (you can volunteer, but some teachers don't allow that volunteering) so you have to be prepared almost every day for at least one or two classes. And you have, how we call it, 'an apology'. That means that you don't have to do oral examination that day. You have two or even one apology per year. Hope this helps.

Wow, I've never heard of oral examinations like that. If it doesn't seem rude, may I ask what country you hail from?

In my country we have about 20 `Yearly` tests... 20!!!! we are always having to take one about every month or two!!!!

School here is based on a marking system of not achieved, achieved, merit and excellence which is modified by a system called nzqa. Based on how you do the teacher will mark each key section of the assignment and give it na/a/m/e. So if you get two excellences and a merit you get excellence, one NA one A and one M then you will get an achieved etc. For scholarships any student may apply for a fee and sit the exam at the end of the year which they study for through out the year but many/most choose not to because of their difficulty. These scholarships allow you to receive money from university, families of the school, local businesses and so on. As for scholarships to come to our school we have none because we are a public school who allow many people to enter no matter what background or financial status their family may have. Because of this we have many students who come from areas that are well over an hr away.

Thank you for all your answers! Though I need you to tell me your country cuz (the purpose of this thread) is that I'm doing a report about the different educational system in different country, so I really need you to tell me your country xD

I heard America has the lowest educational system(of course other than places that are too unfortunate to have schools)

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>>20 Not really just America. Should see the Croatian educational system... If you find a professor that's willing to work with the students and actually teach something, you're on a horse.

In France:
In the secondary school, you have something like 10 teachers, with all the lessons in classrooms for 25-30 persons.
In high school, it's pretty much the same (but for 35 people), but there are more practical work. We have lessons from monday to friday, from 8am to 6pm (but most of the time your lessons stop before 6pm). Saturday morning is reserved for tests in the last year before the exam for studys.

Right now, I am at the faculty of sciences. We do not have a lot of lessons hours : around 20 hours a week. Most of the work we have to do isn't during lessons.
Lessons are ofen lectures in amphitheaters, but we still have lessons in reduced groups and practical works (especially the science field, like chemistry or electricity).

Hope I could help you !

at our school we have once a week a half day, every Tuesday the school day ends at one thirty. all the teachers think that they are the best teachers ever, but most such at teaching, the students dont want to be at school and the classrooms are odl and the resources are broken. I want to go to the selective school not to far from were I live, it's called Nossal high.

In Chile the teachers are varied, generally the best work in private schools (Paid) I was at a school sponsored and had good, average and bad teachers. It was a Catholic school and one of the things that bothered me was the fact that changing the religion teachers all the time and as it is a subjective issue, we had to put up with for a year was a nun doing the class talking about the bible, another year appeared a more modern teacher who told us about everyday things and related to faith and the following year was returning a nun and so on.
We had some elective, I was in robotics and loved, but we had to pay for everything. We went to interscholastic several times and we had to get money (we spent more time on that than on preparing for competition), the teacher helped us, but hopefully the school was interested.
I do not know if anyone is responsible to supervise the schools, because a friend of mine was in a public school, but had to pay (In fact, more than it paid in mine is subsidized).
The last thing I recall is the subject of higher education; It is a mess.
I was going to study design, but would leave. One reason is that they could not afford. Her scholarship and everything, but did not cover all the tariff. Also had to be buying materials all the time. Although I must say that teachers and how to teach, loved me; It was very different to school.

PS: sorry if something is not understood, not managing the entire English.

In Poland, we have 20-30 persons in class. One lesson continues 45 minutes. Break between lessons continues 5 minutes or 15 minutes. In my class we have: Monday- 8 lessons, Tuesday- 8 lessons, Wednesday- 6 lessons, Thursday- 7 lessons, Friday- 6 lessons, but every year it's changing. In Saturday and Sunday we have free time. We're learing English, German and our language- Polish, but after school we might go to additional lessons of another language, for example Japanese, French, Spanish, but we're learning this, not in our school. After junior high school we're going to the high school or studies and after this, we might to learn more or we might to go working. Sorry for my English.

In Queensland, Australia we have four electives and English and Math are compulsory in our final two years(11 & 12)My electives are Drama, Ancient history, Study of Society & Film Television New Media. We are compared against all others in our state participating in those subjects. We are then given a number upon graduating from 25-1 (one being the highest).

Guess it's tougher for the other states XD
Us West Aussies don't have anything stressful unless you let it. Same four elective structure as Hanzo~

I went into a Careers learning course where you don't get pressured into competing with others and receive some great on the job learning ^_^

In Saskatchewan Canada there is a credit system you need a certain minimum number of credits to graduate some classes are extra curricular and are worth 1 or 2 credits important things like math and English are worth more there are also some classes that are manditory but even if you have all the manditory classes you still might be held back from a diploma due to a few credits so you'd need to take an art class or something to make up for it I think it's stupid but I been out of school a decade now but I don't think it has evolved at all since then it's still pretty much the same today

for me (in QLD Aus) I am currently 'trialling' all subjects, but next year we get two electives

one word: horrible

In Chile we recycle everything that is rejected by the educational systems around the world, then we mix it together and BOOM! Chilean education system!

Wow, it's so cool to learn from other countries :) And since you all told me about yours I'll tell you about mine. Well, I live in Puerto Rico, so our educational system is pretty much the same as the U.S.'s. Since elementary schools we take the "basic" lessons for us (that would be, Spanish, English, PE, History, Science and Math) but, depending on the school, you could also have another class that could be art, theater or dance class (I'm actually taking Dance class this year instead of PE). And when I was in Middle school, since I was in a school (a public one) specialized in fine arts I would take more classes including music class (cuz I played violin) and I had to also go to the rehearsals that were like 3 days a week from 3:00 to 4:30. But normal schools finish at 3pm, unless you have a certain thing to do like practice for dance or some sport. So yeah, and to actually graduate from high school you have to have a certain amount of credits (classes) that you have taken. And about scholarships, there are a lot, you just have to look for them. There's the Honor scholarship for students that have good grades (pretty much all A's, but u could also have a B in there), and other scholarships for students that are in something sports or music related. That's pretty much all you needed to know if you were interested :)
Come to Puerto Rico! We got great beaches! xD

Shit, I'm surprised nobody brought up Smarter Balanced or Common Core.

Allow me to explain. I am the testing coordinator for a high school district. This means I order, administer, and ship the state tests a student must take at the beginning, middle, and/or end of a year. For California, this includes:

CELDT (California English Language Development Test; all students born in foreign language households who perform poorly in English must take this test once a year in fall)

CAHSEE (California High School Exit Exam; must be taken to graduate high school)

CST (California Standards Test; soon to be phased out)

Smarter Balanced (a new, computer adaptive test that is four hours long per subject; grades 3-8 must also take a version of it)

What's unique about Smarter Balanced compared to other tests is not only is the test difficulty tailored to the student (questions become harder the more answers a student gets correct), but the questions themselves are no longer just multiple choice. Questions may ask you to select a sentence or paragraph from a passage in order to justify an earlier question in the English portion, or may ask you to make charts and graphs in the math portion.

The test's primary focus is on how well a student can analyze, interpret, and apply problem solving techniques. While the student must ultimately get the correct answer, they have to justify how they got there. And that's where the test aims to be better than the shit instituted by No Child Left Behind.

It's still in early development (last year was the field test, this year is the first year actual scores will be given). If anyone has questions about it, I'd love to go at length into my thoughts about the system.

>>34 That actually sounds like a decent idea. It sounds a lot more though out than what Pennsylvania has been rolling out the last few years (Keystone Exams). I graduated in 2014 and i was honestly disturbed by how poorly the tests were set up. I had the best scores in my district but that just went to prove how unbalanced the tests were. When people who I knew were as smart as me that took time to prepare got lower scores it didn't make sense.

http://californiatac.org/rsc/resources/2014_Grade11Math.pdf

http://californiatac.org/rsc/resources/2014_Grade11ELA_Braille.pdf

These are the keys for the Practice Tests we had the students train with. (As these are nonsecure materials, they are viewable by anyone.) It should give you an idea of the UI layout. There is a way for anyone to take the Practice tests, but ETS needs to rollout compatibility for the newest updates of Firefox and Chrome (which could take a few weeks).

As far as actual assessment testing is concerned, the UI is housed in a Secure Browser that is meant to be cheat-proof.

In Norway, it kind of depends on what school you go to. It's mostly easy and most teachers try to teach as good as they can. Some even bring the things they teach down to make it more easy for the students falling behind. (if you go to a small school)
My school is really about trying to help you through it. If you need something they'll try to help, and they really care about how you as a person is feeling, and tries to help.

We also don't have to pay for going to school. The ''school'' also gives you money to go to school, but there is some factors in it if you get some monthly money or just once. And exchange students can come study here for free! So if you want a higher education, come to Norway and study.

I'm autistic, and I can tell you that the school system just sucks for us special ed kids. Even though I'm really good at all the test taking and stuff, I've had to leave high school for homeschool because the people at the school just didn't care about actually following my IEP and what my therapist was saying needed to be done for me to succeed. Also they'd use the disabled kids that needed a separate class to clean the school and stuff. No one else had to do that, except as a punishment for vandalism or something. And judging by what other autistic people have said, this stuff is commonplace here in the good ol' US of A.

It sucks.

Well, everything sucks for me in school, my teacher, my friends, my classmates, the grading system, the activities ,the thousands of fees IT ALL SUCKS.....it sucks to go to school everyday, its sucks that all my efforts were useless..in short, it just SUCKS!

You must be a Loner :D so Sad :(

>>41 yes,I'm kind of a loner type of person

I hate school too, we have a criminal for a head and he doesn't understand!! I'm fed up to the back teeth with the fucking school, I can't wait to leave, nobody knows my anger and I hate it, I feel helpless and like the world is falling apart around me!! Who do they think they are telling me what to do while they swim around in their own hippocracy, I don't get why a pastoral support, who is supposed to be there for you can just say "tough" and "get out" they are laughable!! Don't fool yourself in to thinking they care. They don't. They keep on saying we're running out of time. Time is constant and it doesn't care about the people who struggle. Neither does the school they only care about the C grades and not you as an individual. I'm fed up!!

May I suggest you start a thread in the "personal" section!! It seems to fit that category :)

I live in the Philippines sooooo I think School system here so much different than the other countries. Anyone else lives in the Philippines?

My School has a safe environment to study and many of us respect one another regardless of race, religion, or even country-birth. My teachers care for the students in their academics and their psychological well being. Even though the curriculum is rigorous but the teachers worked hard to help us understand the lessons with interesting ways of teaching via interactive games and educational videos online. My school values character development in every student as well, not just academic excellence. Even though my school is not considered elite school but they tried to make every school a good school that developed us well in different areas. When there is financial difficulties, the education system here has financial assistance scheme where even the poor can study and have a change to move up the social ladder regardless of financial power.

I find my country's Education system very satisfiable.
I am from Singapore.

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Maybe just like Yuukio san . people dont even think about race and religion , of course school trying to develop good attitude in student . but in the end academic exellence is everthing in Indonesia .

I feel that the education system of the country that I currently resides in is not exciting enough
They learn algebra in grade 6 while my home country learns it at grade 4
It's so boring that I don't bother to study anymore

My Educational system?? fuufufufu Curriculum 2013 is hell like shit. It makes us the students look like a bunch of Pointless Education's Slave

In all honesty, I feel like a robot.
In my school, the sh#tty School Administrations keep changing the criteria of graduation upon entry to High School and to Collage more then Apple changing their charges.

I don't even know what to do. The SAT is hated by many colleges but yet they are the key to enter into collage.
There is no room for thinking in some of my classes.

When I learn a math formula they give me examples where I will need it. My teacher doesn't tell me what the connection is between the formulas and the question.

Same thing in all my other classes. It is as if noone wants me, no, any student to think.

If no one thinks, what gives us our identity?

The education system in America is absolutely abhorrent! We have this thing called common core that basically says that all students in a certain grade need to know at least this much stuff. It sounds like a good idea, but the bar is set at a level that doesn't suit most of the students. The way it works is there's a nation-wide curriculum with the minimum every student needs to know to pass a grade, and everyone is taught to that level. The kids that can't learn as fast as normal are being rushed up to the expectation and end up not learning anything at all, and the students that learn faster than normal are left wanting and needing to learn more because the teachers only teach to the minimum standard. All in all its just a horrible system that needs to be completely revised.

"Do not let schooling interfere with your education."

That sums up my ideas on learning... You choose your own involvement. If you want to learn, then you will.

School (shkole)"Greek Word" means Free time.

Check out: Ryan Lotocki's "This is Genius" on YouTube! It's an amazing spoken word poem about the United State's Education System!

DPL, I just looked up that video and I must say, it is absolutely fantastic!

For the United States education system it is best described in two words: terribly dull.

in the philippines the education in most schools are not the highest quality. we lack facilities and staff. furthermore the government keeps making policies to make things "better".

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In the Philippines, we have this so-called 'change' in the educational system. we're in the process, but overall the goal of the entire idea is good.

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(i like reading this tbh, it's informative)

Canadian here: much like what >>29 said, i'm one province over. right now the education system is good, but the federal and provincial government seems to be cutting back on education funding, which im not happy about. I'n my city we have enough schools and colleges so that someone can learn just about anything they want. if you want to be a doctor, we have a university that's attached to a hospital for example, and this year I'm attending a technical college for network engineering. the variety of programs in our whole country are really good, but again, possible cut-backs may change that.

Here the educational system is not very good, although there are some great teachers, most of them are shitty (and I learn in a relatively good school). the teaching method is not good at all- they try to make us ready for the tests, instead of making us actually know it and like it. and the "final tests" in the high school, which are called "Bagrut exams" is like the one and only target schools have, not actually educate us to be good people or something, which is way more important.
we do have here some "choosing classes" like chemistry, films, sports etc, but we all have to learn maths, english, literature, hebrew history, bible (The Old Testament only) and something called "citizenship".
Another thing I have to mention, is that Israel (did I even mention I am from Israel?) is a semi- rligious country, but now the fundamentalist religious parties are having quier an influence in the goverment, and the minister of education is one of them, and he wants to add more judaism classes, instead of using the money to fund better things such as english classes or making the teachers better, and most of the people hate it. (at least I think, or want to think it is the majority)
Well, that was me.
Enjoy!

Maybe there will be one day we just plug a chip into our head and get any knowledge auto even learn how to creat new subject even when we are sleep and even more we can't imagine now. There will be nothing like school education or teacher and exam. How ever it seems still to sf till now.

In NZ it's like "If you have a good teacher, you'll get good education. If not, well too bad, you're not getting a scholarship."

first day of highschool its ehhh

England's educational system is alright. I'm not sure about other schools but this is our system.

For the first two years you have classes with your tutor class with the exception of maths which is set according to ability. Set 1 is the highest ability class and this continues down, sometimes all the way to set 7 or 8 depending on the size of your year group. Set one and two are considered high ability, set three and four average and anything below that is considered low ability.

After the first two years almost all classes become set according to ability.
I think the sets are good because it allows people of similar ability to work at the same pace so people in set 5 can work at their own pace and those in set 1 can work at theirs. This was no one is holding anyone else back. However, recently some classes have become mixed ability (like history) and it's really inconvenient. The smarter kids are usually finished quicker than the rest and get bored or annoyed with having to wait for the others and everyone else gets annoyed if we move on too fast. It's hard for the teachers to find a good in between pace.

The teachers are generally good and rather chill. So long as we are respectful and complete our work they let us have a laugh in class and chill. However, some of them are used to teaching higher level students (they also teach A-level students and such) so they sometimes get annoyed at us if we are finding a task hard and they get confused as to how we don't understand something. Also, some teachers have favourites so favouritism happenes quite a bit which is extremely annoying. But other than that the teachers are cool.

Overall, school here is okay... not the best but could be wayyy worse~ ^^

i live in canada and in my opinion they really don't teach us that well we had a japanese student come to our class for 1 math he was doing grade 10 stuff in gr 8 my family migrated here for better education but i would have rather went to japan. Here in canada in my opinion 1 person can drag the whole class back. Well this is my opinion id say if i rated our educational system id say a 6/10

the german education system is kind of poorly organized at levels which it should not be. there are way to many cancellations on average with lame excuses from the teachers. Also halve the time we have substitute teachers , they don't even know what they're supposed to be doing. it's kind of frustrating.

I live in Czech Republic, the education system is pretty much meh... We get substitions often, the "do what you want" classes and our teachers aren´t too smart.... There are some exceptions though where the teachers are priceless. Still considering other countries our education isn´t worse but it´s somewhere below average since our politics suck up half of the taxes for themselves and that way the taxes don´t go to the place they should be at

Yo soy de Mexico,no es de que la educacion sea tan mala, solo aveces no contamos con todo el material necesario,o los profesores por tener otros asuntos importantes no se pueden presentar,lo que pretende el gobierno es que cualquier joven tenga mas opurtunidad de estudiar,en cuanto becas si las hay, lo que pienso es de que no solo el gobierno tiene la culpa de que la educacion caiga si no tambien nuestra,ya que existen diferentes de formas de aprender.

In Venezuela the education system could be better in a lot of aspects. One of its good points is that basic education is guaranteed by the State, so it offers 14 of free education , however due to the high density population in certain areas and the lack of population in others, some states' public schools can't provide their services to the whole of the population, so ivate schools take the excedent. On the other hands, there are states where public schools are few and far from some populations resulting in difficulties in receiving education.

Secondly, the education system is designed so tehre are 3 pre-school grades, that start at age 3-4. 6 elementary school levels and 5 high school grades. During pre-school or elementary school, kids can be promoted to another level if they demonstrate to have the abilities required for upper levels, though this practice does not usually apply to highschool.

Thirdly, the State requires all the school to adhere to a pensum of study divided by grade. This pensum is lacking as it was designed more than 2 decades ago and has not been updated considerable since. Futhermore, these divisions make it harder to understand subjects as most of its material is not directly correlated.

Fourth, during the first 9 years of school there are only 2 teachers at most, then you range from 7-10 teachers during highschool, though that number can vary depending on the number of avaible teachers in the school. However, the quality of the teacher can go from excellent to awful in both public and private schools, as the requirements to become a teacher are very low in the universities and a decreasing numbers of profesional teachers in the nation.

Fifth, the evaluation methods tends to be up to the teacher for each subject, but the State requires at least one written evalution per term. There are 3 terms per year in Venezuela, the firsts is September-December, January-April and May-July. The usual evalution scale is in base 20, and most of these evalutions depends on memorization over comprehesion.

Sixth, university level education may be pursued, and there are public universities funded by the State that offer scholaship and free tuition to those who attend them, the former depends on the person's econommical condition. There are over 40 universities in the country and 10 are reconized world wide. Until a few months ago, all universites held admission exams to acquire the right to attend them, these exams were long and hard, and usually were designed for each type of major. They took into account tthe exam's grade and the person's highschool's promedy.

Fianlly, it should be noted that most public schools have not recieved proper funding during the last 20 or so years, obviusly affecting the quality of education that can be given. Also, due to the different economic problems and crisis the funding going to education has decreased considerably lately.

Well, that's my country education system, I hope it helps you.

Hey, I felt like bumping this up because lately I've been more aware about how much the education system suck everywhere in the world. It's one of those times where you have to ask yourself things like "What if, the criminal rate in the urban areas went down because more people got better education there?", "What if I wasn't so afraid to get a job because I knew nothing about where to even begin?", "What if people learned how to pay their bills before they knew what a^2+b^2=c^2 is?".
For me, I am extremely lucky to have the education system that I have - even if it's still pretty shitty. If they just made those small simple tweaks, it would make learning so much more fun and useful.

Actually I'm studying in an English Language Program (E.L.P.) to become an english language teacher here in Chile and I've got to say don't lose hope! Things seem very bad everywhere, the educational system treats everyone like merchandise but we, the teachers, are trying to fix things one piece at a time. Some of us really care about the children, seeing as they are indeed the future of the country.
P.D : Teaching stuff like math formulas to everyone without teaching them how to deal with bills is indeed weird and a waste of time, we have a program we've gotta follow as teachers tho :/ (that doesn't mean we try to make it as fun as possible)
P.P.D : I shouldn't be saying this buuut..We don't care that much about grades xD (unless they are to apply for scholarships and stuff) just behave at school and develop a good set of skills neccesary for a job, not all teachers are monsters! (Some of us are clowns tho)

>>75 I frikin' love some of my teachers XD They can just be so chill with everything. It is true though, I've seen some teachers online who disagree with the stuff they're supposed to teach. That means, that in reality, it's not the teachers or the school's fault, it's the governments. It would be really tough for us to convince anyone to change the education system though. People underestimate it too much.

Also, has anyone ever seen these three videos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xe6nLVXEC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJIu7pE0lBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCM4GEBDjz4

This goes in Personal or Countries. please remove and put on there

Lol in mine we learn about making babies in like 2nd grade

Either Science or Social studies in 11th grade, no elective subjects, a thing called "Character Building" every Saturday where you interpret movies which have a lot of scenes cut off in the name of "making it suitable for educational purposes". Ever since this was a thing, pretty sure more delinquents have been popping up. Also English teachers suck.

The level of Baccalaureate (post- secondary diploma) is decreasing in France, because the more students have it, the happier are the parents.

That's a growing burden for colleges, which need to compensate. According to my teacher, they won't be able to do it indefinitely.

The school school system is not that bad, but is loosing efficiency and its capacity to be a "social elevator".
Though, primary and secondary public studies are free (and mandatory), then public college costs ca 600€/year and university 200€/year.

College level is pretty good, and France is competitive in a few fields such as aviation.

In my country
It's kind of depend on what kind of school you in.
I'll just say mine.My school have grades 1-12. Students can't choose what class we want.We HAVE to take every class. which is ...10-14 class per semester (depend on what grade you in).
Student will sit in only one class in 1 year and teachers are person who have to walk.Also student have to be VERY respectful to teachers. We can't talk back to them or kind of told them that they are wrong(even if they actually WRONG). We have to bend our head when we walk pass teacher. We have to walk on our knees if teacher is sitting. Teachers can hit student if student did something wrong (not illegal and kind of SHOULD DO thing for them) without getting fire or got complain by parents.
//oh? last part isn't system. Just way of life.
We only have.. its doesn't exactly scholarship but kind of free education for low class family's children.

Well... in my opinion. Our system is kind of suck. Actually I think it's because the government and all things..//sigh
But universities are pretty good ,though.

In British Columbia (Canada) our education system is like this:

In some areas the grades are split up as K-7 (elementary), and 8-12 (high school). In my area though, I went through K-5 (elementary), 6-8 (middle school or junior high), 9-12 (high school).

In grades 10,11 and 12 we have to take Provincial Exams: Gr 10 (math, science and english) Gr 11 (social studies) and Gr 12 (english). These exams make up roughly 20% of our final grade.

Similar to Saskatchewan's education system, we also require credits to graduate. Credits are earned through completing required and elective courses. As well as credits though we also need a certain amount of volunteer hours. (x.x)

I think this feature only applies to the city I live in...the schools I went to are all upgrading on their technology. Even in elementary school, we were able borrow laptops from the school and use them in class, and instead of whiteboards/chalkboards we had smartboards, which is basically a cross between a projector, whiteboard and huge ass ipad (it was touchscreen).

In high school, we're encouraged to bring our own iphones/tablets/laptops, etc. to use in class. Most teachers don't give a damn if you're on facebook or an educational website, as long as you pay attention during the lessons. They even allow us to listen to music while working, which is great. In fact, in grades 9, 10, and 11 it is now required that every student has a tablet or laptop. Students also have the option of borrowing a tablet from the school. So everything is digital: the textbooks, all our work is done in pdf/word doc, and most assignments are digital-based.

I'm in grade 10 so I can't offer much information about post-secondary information yet...sorry! But I'll type as much as I know from what I'e already experienced.

Now away from the technical aspect...here's my personal opinion on our education system as well as personal experiences with the teachers here.

I believe many of the teachers I've experienced, for these past 10 years, have been absolutely fantastic (with a few exceptions XD). Many of them don't believe in memorizing facts and then regurgitating them onto a test, only to forget that information 3 weeks later. They also didn't like to teach straight by the textbook, or following strictly to a set of rules. The teachers treat us as equals, and we've had great class discussions about serious topics (gender equality, world hunger, child labour). Heck, some of them even swear and drop f-bombs from time to time, which makes them feel more like a friend rather than a teacher.

However, all that is based on my own experience. There are also many lazy ass, careless teachers that don't know how to teach, but I just happened to have a lot of teachers that I personally liked.

Now...about our education system. For all the schools, each grade has a specific curriculum they have to follow. For example, the teachers were required to teach about Mesopotamia and ancient civilizations in social studies for grade 6. Also, it's that same old typical teaching system: the teacher lectures us or gives handouts, we listen/perform an activity, and in 2 weeks or so we must demonstrate how much we've learned in a test, project or presentation.

Personally I hate this. Am I really learning just by having someone give me information about a specific topic, and then expecting me to repeat that same information again in a set amount of time? I think not. I'm simply memorizing what another person's told me, unless I try to deconstruct this information myself and connect the dots.

For example, in math or science there are formulas. I've always wondered, "Why does the formula work? What am I really doing when I use these formulas?" I've always tried to understand how it works, not just simply plug numbers in because the formula said so. But when asking teachers, most can't even come up with a reasonable answer; they just say: Don't worry about it, just do what the formula tells you do to."

Sorry for the long post, but this is all I've got right now on our education system. XD hope this helps

Here in the Philippines, my thoughts on our educational system isn't precise but here are some things I know:

First of all, we used to only have nursery, pre school, kinder, grades one to six, first year to fourth, and then college. Now, we have what some might call 'Middle School' (the term Middle School isn't very popular here. In some countries, it's grades six to eight. But I think in our country, it's grades seven and eight). So basically we used to just have nursery, prep, kinder, grades one to six, first to fourth year, then college, now we have grades seven to 12 (which is considered highschool) and THEN college.

Second, grading system here at our place practically became SH*T to us now. The lowest anyone I knew could get was 75 and if something was zero, it could probably just end up as a 70. Now, zero means ZERO.

But like in other countries maybe, there's not much of a difference anymore. Public schools are free, private schools not, some schools are trying to go more 'advanced' by adding more new tech in school or teaching more advanced lessons, either way, school improves like how a school usually does here.

There's probably a lot more, but I'm not a genius at these things.

is a shit

here in wv the system is stupid and boring fr

The system here sucks. They can't control students and they give to much work.

In Michigan we have preschool(k-1), middle school(2-8), high school(9-12) and college(2 yr degrees to 10+yr degrees). Most of the time our schools offer kindergarten through eighth grade. Then once the student graduates middle school they go to high school. Some schools have kindergarten through college. For example, Western. I don't personally go there so I might be off. Public schools are free, and uhm, we go to this place called Career Center for two years in the last two years of high school. We have the option of going, for example, a student that wants to be a chemist won't go to career center they go to university while a student that wants to go into welding goes to career center. It's something like a vocational school except you're still required to attend both your high school and Career Center.
I go to Career Center for Visual Communications, it's basically fine arts program.
Also, our teachers are one of two things. they are either nice/cool or mean/rude. There's no inbetween. We also have to take two tests three times a year, three because our school year is sorted into trimesters. The two tests are the ACT AND PSAT ;When you get in grade 11 and grade 12 in high school you take three, the ACT, SAT and MEAP. Our school uses Common Core too so we have Embedded Assessments and such as well in maths.
We also offer AP or Advanced Placement classes that give you college credits.
As far as middle school(sorry I'm all over the spectrum) I don't know much about other schools, I went to a charter school which is basically a private school but we were sorted differently. We were sorted into three hallways, the K-1 hallway, the 2-4 hallway and the Big Ten Hallway which was 5-8. We regularly took the MEAP test and other required tests.
Hope I helped you out! Good luck on your essay ;)

Oh I almost forgot, Michigan is in America

Romanian educational system = biggest pile of crap ever

>>78 I appreciate you trying to helping but in my opinion, education is an actual topic of discussion that everyone and anyone on this site can talk about. It is relevant due to the fact that education is very underrated worldwide that people need to be more aware of. It is not just Kimiko's "personal" problem.

America's sucks. Thats all. The work is too easy, we learn something for a week then never see it again. Also if you ask me anything I learned last year, I would totally blank. Our history focus is mostly on american history, even in high school. I've been learning about this since 5th grade. Plus America's history is boring. Plus we never slow down and try to LEARN anything, we just memorize it for the test then we are done.

you know it is truly funny. The internet s an abundance of information. People having been putting knowledge into it, since the beginning of it existence. If you truly want to learn anything don't really on the classrooms. Research your ambitions yourself.

Ahhh fck! Our curriculum in the Philippines was changes. There was this stupid thing called K-12, there was an additional 2 years in high school. Even the subject topics was changed, what they teach in high school is already for college!

The educational system in Canada is pretty tough but many say that it's one of the best. Though I think that they could at least a little bit easier to get into university or collage.

The USA educational system is overly laid back and utterly annoying, its to slow with no real point to it. like Cali said. the internet is the best resource in our time. but the educational system is so bent that itsliterally a downward spiral leading to more and more high school drop outs, GEDs, and other diferent circumstances that cause the low class of america...

There's a change in curriculum here in the Philippines called K-12 wherin 50% of our grades are dependent on the practical projects we made which called 'Performance Tasks' and 15% for the written works ,20% for the quarterly assessment and the remaining 5% for the portfolio(currently that is).then there's the additional of 2 years because of that change.
It flips everyone off with the college-level topics that they teach in high school. It's making us the students sleep-deprived with all of the work they've given us.

I'm in the U.S. but I'm in Utah, and the education here sucks. We have the Common Core Curriculum which is terrible. The stupid idiots who designed it didn't think how a child would try to learn it so they have us learning all sorts of unnecessary stuff. It phrases things in kids problems which are too complex for the kids to grasp yet. They basically are telling us how we should think about it. It's awful. The curriculum makes it easier on the teachers, but really hard on the students. Especially our "core" classes, English, Science, and math. It prioritizes geometry over out History which is not right in my opinion I feel like they almost don't want us to know as much about our history as they do. Almost like they are keeping us in the dark.

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