Tell me something about you country's school system.

Our school system focus too much on standardized test now. When I was in school we took test but it wasn't to the point where we took them every school year just to pass a grade. Our school system is somewhat messed up

I'm from Australia. Our school year starts at the end of January and ends in mid-December. Our education is compulsory until the end of High School and is divided into two parts. - Primary covering Kindergarten to grade 6 - Secondary covering grade 7 to grade 12. Both private and public schools have a required uniform in both primary and secondary school. Classes usually start at around 9AM and end at about 3PM. Each class has no more than 28-30 students in it (government regulations). My high school has around 1000 students. My primary school had about 700.

I am from China. Our school year is divied into two terms by the winter vacation: the first term begins on September 1st and ends in January (a week before the Spring Festival),the second term begins in Feburay, (about 2 weeks after the spring Festival) Pre-school is not required but most parents send their children to kindergarttens when the children turn three.they stay for three years. All children must receive 9 years of compulsory education: six years of primary school and three years of junior middle school.Then the grade 9 students will take part in the senior middle school entrance examinations held by the province.If their grades are good enough, they will be admitted into senior middle school,where stay three years. If they get good marks at the college entrance examinations, they will be admitted into a college,where they stay four or five years. Middle school students usually get up at 5:30 in the morning,do morning exercises and read their books for oune hour before breakfast. Class begins at about Eight a.m. till twelve at noon with ten-minute break between two classes.In the afternoon,class begins at about two and endsat about for then the outside-class activities. Evening class lasts till nine PM.

I live in the United States. Most schools go like this: School year starts in August or September and ends in May or June, with two weeks off at Christmas and New Year, and a week in the spring, usually in late March or early April. The uniform policy differs in different areas; some schools require uniforms, other schools let students wear clothing from their normal wardrobe, but with rules about certain things that AREN'T allowed. Preschool is not required, and those that take preschool are usually in it for a year. There are (typically) 6 years of elementary education, three years in junior high, and four years of high school. Most schools start around 8 AM and end by 3 PM, give or take an hour. Class sizes are usually no more than 30 students, on average, even in public schools. Private school classes try to have no more than 20 students in one class. The US typically does not start teach a foreign language to students until they are in high school, and in many cases, it's not even required to graduate.

Ummm, you should probably get someone else to cover america as a whole, but there is a minority in America of homeschoolers, Which is growing. there are also two types of homeschooling, structured and with lesson plans, and unstructured which is sometimes reffered to as un-schooling. Un-schooling generally works best with a mind set that is bent on and thirsty to learn, Un-schooling is the category I fall under, My days are mostly unstructured, but My Test scores will prove this method is highly effective for me, I enjoy attempts at things such as reading shakespeare, or trying to figure out how light works, comeing up with theories for ordinary phenomena and testing them out, as for human interaction I have my church, main street, and the internet. As for uniforms :P We do not even have guidelines (Save for you must be wearing clothes.) school hours are lax, and there are only 2 kids in my school, but there are a couple other homeschoolers at my church, actually three, use to be four, but one of them is going to public schools. Btw, I live in America.

I am from China. School year starts in late September and ends in late July. We have winter holiday. It contain two weeks Spring Festival and a weeks off, usually in the end of January or at the begining of Febrary. Winter holiday depends on THe Spring Festival. The uniform policy is not requaired. It depends your school. Preschool in my country is not required.Most parents get their children in preschool in 3 years. If u like, u can also study for 1 year. There are 9 years of compulsory education, six years in elementary school and three years for junior school. Our high school is required 3 years and four years for university. Before high school, most schools start at 8 AM and end by 5 PM. There is 1 hour break in the noon. In high school, most students should stay school from 8 AM to 10 PM. Our class size differs in different areas. In my school, it is more than 50 students in a class.

Thats the same thing in my country also..My country is India and the only difference is that after four years of high school we have two years of junior college..and in here we have different types of education..say cbse,matriculation and higher sec schools..cbse is the tuffest followed by matric and then higher sec schools which are mostly owned by the state government...i studied in all these and felt that only cbse gives the immense amount of informations...Happy Mylotting...

I used to Live in Cambodia. let me recall, 1 to 2 years in Preschool. 6 years in elementary school, 3 years in secondary school and 3 years in high school. well, school calendar start in August and end sometimes in April cuz it close to our New Year, so they always have vacation after that.

i live in england and i like the way the timetable is set out and how the schools run and the holidays its great you have time to learn you have time to play and most of all you get time to just chill 0ut lol

Usa school system has the same issues that any other does. Teachers and the commitment to the education and futures of the students they teach.

it is some what similar for us to .but a small change in time 9 am -4pm.i really hate it .some good changes must happen.