How Is School In Your Country

zeronelife

Mar 14 2007, 03:25 PM

Hi
i'm live in iran our High school is opening at 7 to 2:40 we have a lot of homework and 2 test at every weak and we have to study at least 2 hours a day. i want to know how is high schools in your country

Hadi

Mar 14 2007, 06:35 PM

HI, zeronelife, first, welcome a board.
In my country, well, my school, is extremely, hard, one of the hardest in all the country.
When you sign up, at age 3, there is about 3000 kid like you entering the school. At the last grade, only 20 student get to pass this class. Thank God, I am one of the top 10 in school, and hope I always will be.
Everyday you have some tons of homework, to do. French, english, arabic, a little of spanish, math, philosophy (in all three launguages)
This year, is the worst ever, I have to memorize, a book, of 200 page, another with a 123 pages, and a third with 54 pages. ANd have an exam, on them. I feel very tired, when entering home. I sometimes, feel i want tod die. But still I love school, without it, my life would be so boring.

biscuitrat

Mar 14 2007, 06:53 PM

I'm in America, and my school (since schools are very different from place to place) is currently on a 7-class-a-day schedule. We're moving to 4 classes a day on alternate days soon (basically, your 1st-4th period classes on A day, your 5th-8th period classes on B day, and then back to A day), which makes me happy. I can take an extra class!

I've written extensively on how our district doesn't seem to appreciate our education, but I find solace in my elective classes. We're required to take 4 years of English, 3 of science, and 3-4 of math depending on what we want to do, as well as 2-3 years of a foreign language. We also have random small classes that we need to take to fulfill graduation requirements, such as a year of a Fine Arts credit, a year and a half of P.E., and a year of a computer class. I knocked out the FA/PE by taking band for three years, which makes me happy. Unfortunately, I didn't have to take a third year of band (easily my most boring year), but I wasn't informed - again, my district is somewhat stupid - so I wasted a year.

We have 4 grading periods, each 9 weeks long. At the end of each grading period, we take an exam, and we also take one at the end of each semester. Tests are left to the discretion of each individual teacher, but we normally have 1 every 3 weeks in most of our classes.

It's not bad here, but it could definitely be better.

rvalkass

Mar 14 2007, 07:33 PM

Here, in the UK it varies from school to school, but at my school we start at 8:30am and finish at 3:20pm, with 5 lessons, each of 1 hour. Depending on how old you are, you have to take certain subjects. In years 7 to 9 (age 11 to 13/14) you have no choice of subjects and have to do everything from English, to design and technology, to sport to "personal, social and health education" (PSHE). At the age of 14 you get a bit of choice as to what you want to do for the next two years, but you still have to do the basics of maths, English, all 3 sciences, religion and philosophy, sport and PSHE. When you reach 16 years old you have complete free choice over what you do. I have chose physics, chemistry, sociology, pure maths and mechanics.

Our teachers are advised to set 1 hour of homework, per lesson, per day. So basically we would have 12 hours of school work per day. However, the teachers know the students would never do it, and even if they did, the teachers would never have time to mark it all. Tests and homework are left up to the teachers as to what they want to do, but usually each department will run mock exams once a year to compare all the classes with a set test they all have to take. Compulsary exams are taken at 13/14 years old (SATs) and 15/16 years old (GCSEs). If you choose to stay on and do advanced level studies (A-Levels) then you do exams at 16/17 and 17/18.

Overall I think the system here in the UK is a lot better compared to what it used to be like, but there are still a lot of areas for improvement. For example, there is no parity of esteem with academic and vocational qualifications, unlike countries such as Germany.

cuequinha6969

Mar 15 2007, 01:48 AM

really bad they do all kinds of stuff from drugs, drive bys, killings, ect. so i think my school is like in the badest place

darran

Mar 15 2007, 02:09 AM

It has been 3 years since I last graduated from high school, but I will tell you what I can anyways.

I remember taking 7 subjects (English, Elementary Maths, Additional Maths, Combined Science, Combined humanities, Literature and Chinese).

It was a horrid time when I was there, but I kinda enjoyed studying there, those days of being drilled exam papers from previous years, countless practice on countless foolscap papers. In my country, the high school system works in such a way:

A total of 4 years for the express stream or 5 years for the normal stream.

The first year is to build your foundation, in the 2nd year, you are streamed and you can choose which route you want to take it. Be it combined science, pure science or arts stream. In the 3rd year just like the 1st year, you are going to build on your foundation and in the 4th year, you take the final paper which is the GCE O'Level, it is very similar to the GCSE paper in UK because the papers are marked by Cambridge University. I am not sure about the 5 years normal stream as I was in the Express stream.

andybebad

Mar 15 2007, 02:35 AM

here it's 7:20 in the morning untill 2:22 in the afternoon. We're required to take 4 credits in english, 2 in math (4 if you plan on continuing your education), 2 in science (4 if you plan on continuing your education), 3 credits in history/social studies, 2 credits in physical education/health, and 9 elective credits. Our high school isn't the greatest, seeing as the building is falling apart and a lot of the kids that go there are jerks. I like all the teachers I've had so far, so I do (somewhat) enjoy going to school.

The school runs a closed campus, so nobody's allowed to leave without an excuse (and they're really strict about enforcing this). We get days when they'll lock everybody in the classrooms and have the drug sniffing dogs search the school for drugs.

thejestergl

Mar 15 2007, 10:27 PM

I am also in America and I live in California! Our school system isn't bad, but America, as you know, has one of the lowest educational programs. It is actually quite sad how poor our school system is. Our school starts at 7:45am and ends at 2:45 pm. We have a "minimum" day on Wednesdays (8:50 - 2:45). We study quite a bit, depending on what kind of courses you have. If you have some of the advance courses you may find yourself studying 3+ hours a day. I still have to say that compared to a lot of other countries America is pretty low in rank. However, our educational system still isn't that bad.

aoehq

Mar 17 2007, 06:43 AM

I lvie in australia, at my primary school we used to have 8:45am to 3:30pm, but got changed to 8:45am to 3:15.

in primary school ,our work doesent sound as bad as most of you guys, but so far in my highschool, its starting to sound alot more like you guys.

in highschool, i think 8:00am to 3:00pm, with 3 tests a week, tons of homework and very little break time.

i think one of the good things about my school is at lunch time, your allowed to go to the libary to go onto the computers, which my sister at her school, isnt allowed to have.

one good thing about highschool is also you have lots of friends

Autumn

Mar 18 2007, 04:15 PM

Well, I'm in Canada. Ontario, to be exact. Our schooling system is really good, I guess. I'm a returning grade 12 student. We only have grade 9 through 12 in our highschool system. I graduated and went back for an extra year. More credits, higher grades.

The positive side to the OSSA (Ontario Secondary Schools Act) is that they try to be as helpful as they can. Every student, no matter of race, religion, etc... has an equal opportunity to speak with someone about their highschool career and their success in the course(s) they're taking.

A lot of the teaching methods are instructional and demonstrative. As highschool students we get a fair bit of hands on experience in classes Science, etc...

So, I guess with tha being said, highschool where I live is really good.

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kwantum

Jun 6 2007, 04:32 PM

right now, it suckz

we supposed to be writing exams but the teacherz are striking, we come to school ready to write and get sent back home =/ we didnt write yesterday and the day before, we come today and we writin friday, we pro'lly wont be writin stil

etycto

Jun 5 2007, 02:11 AM

im in america right now and their school system is fine but a litlle slacking. the kids dont put eanough notivation into it the kids dont care wat so ever. they are really disrespecfull to the teachers, and they sooooo get the freedom of speech thing wrong way wrong. they have harable role models in america, the holiwood stars, and the kids tend to aim at the wrong goals. a lot of kids just say oh so and so, some rapper, did not finish high school and they are famous. the worst part is that they trie to teach kids moral values pretty late. you go from elementry>middle school>high school> coledge> if u get that far some specialist school like medical school.

but where i was born and raised, haity, if you could afford school, pretty cheap, school was praticly your life. we had home works once in a while, BUT there was studying every day,we studied some hard material, third grade. if you did not know your material you would be "wipped", not as inhumane as it sounds. the "wipping" was more like motivation, and kids in haity always knew their material, and the teachers had every respect they could get from kids. youd go from garde school, high school, then i beleive a career training school, not sure, left at 9.

the difference between those school systems was realy how the kids' attidudes where toards their edducation. school in america comes free, and somewhat forcefully giving kids a reason to hate it. but in haity it was somewhat a privalige to learn and came to kids as gift.

sinthetix

Jun 1 2007, 05:42 PM

Hello. I live in the United States and remembering back to my high school days in the state of Virginia which I still live in...

The schools around the area and city to city are different in what they teach or emphasize on. They give us standardized tests which are all supposed to be the same throughout the nation for each grade and cover everything we 'should' know. I went to a few different high schools in the area and recognized that they were teaching very different things. And no it wasn't because of the time of the year or anything. Even the text books were different and I compared the material inside and they covered different things. Some text books were even by different publishers.

Round here you had a diverse high school society. Had the preps, punks, goths(proud Gothic by the way

), thugs, wiggers, dorks, all around odd people, and the occasional poor kid.

The teachers who were older were often time bitter and bored with their job so much they really don't even care anymore. Completely unprofessional. The younger teachers who weren't broken yet were pretty cool sometimes.

The rules were some of the most stupid I've ever read. Oh and the food sucked. Except for one school which had a pizza hut/taco bell within. Some sort of Deli and a couple of other things.

Drugs were everywhere. Seemed like just about everyone did them. Usually it was Pot/Weed though. A few were into acid and speed sometimes cocaine. Everyone drank at the parties, even the dorks lol. Lots of fights in the hallways and in the cafeteria. Even at the football games. Everyone in the area under the age of 25 doesn't really care about much around here. As a collective the youth are moving away from the older generations almost like making their own society. I suppose that does happen every few generations though. Anyways, more to the point of the subject at hand school sucks around here. But in its own way it was cool. I miss my high school days. It was the biggest daily social event to just go to school and do whatever I wanted.

webointer

May 31 2007, 09:49 PM

I live in Croatia in Donja Lomnica this is the smaller village near main town Zagreb.
Every day I commute for about 1 hour in one and another 1 hour in another way.
My school is much supporter from side of Croatian government than another schools. In school you can go only if you in Primary school had 5 (A) in Mathematics, Science, Biology, Croatian and English. My colleagues is the best in world on informatics competition ACSL.

We got big GYM, outdoor playgrounds and athletic runway.

I'm soo happy because I go to that school. In my school is going a girls too and most of them is very pretty.

CinnamorollTK

May 24 2007, 01:59 AM

I'm in a school of correspondence school. I'm considered to be homeschooled even thought I do all of the work myself. I rarely have anyone help me because the lessons are simple and easy to understand. I've learned more in this school than in any U.S. public school.

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How Is School In Your Country - High school

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