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Re: ARTICLE: America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta |
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Posted by Charles G on Fri Jul 8 03:57:31 2011, in response to Re: ARTICLE: America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta, posted by Scorpio7 on Thu Jul 7 20:06:46 2011. Here in Switzerland, the basic education early on (through about age 11 or 12) seriously lags the US system. Essentially it's languages and some mathematics with a ton of fluff. It has been painful watching my kids be bored out of their skulls for 7 hours a day...During the equivalent of 6th grade, kids can take a placement exam for the Gymnasium (which, despite the name is the top academic placement). Only about 20% of the Swiss make it into Gymnasium -- but the education suddenly becomes far more intense and pretty quickly shoots past anything learned in an American middle or high school... |
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