My mother wants me to ask this, because in Austria the teachers were striking, because they had to work 2 hours more the week. So I ask you: What is your school like? How many hours do you supposed to be in school? How many hours do your teachers work the week? How many holidays do you have? Tell me please just everything.
In my school it is like that: We have 34 hours the week school and about 4(!) months holidays. That's the reason why teachers are so hated in my country... Most people complain about the fact that teachers are lazy and they don't work anything except relaxing at the pool. What is it in your country like?
My school works like this: everyone gotta choose a "profiel" (profile) so it's called and the amount of hours at school differs along the profiel you have. I myself have 36 hours a week, but others got 32 and others got 38. We gotta have 1000 hours of education time a year, but we can fill the remaining hours with things like school activities. Teachers work as much as they want, some work like 40 hours a week and others 12. And I think almost every teacher gets at least one day off a week.
I don't know how many months of holiday we have, but it must be like 3 or something.
I'm not in school.
Our school system is quite simple. I'll explain my year only, as I can't remember the number of hours from last year.
We have 12 hours of obligatory subjects this year. (4x Norwegian, 2x PE, 4x Language (French, German or Spanish), 2x History) Then we have to choose four subjects, with five hours each a week (some subjects only have three hours). Thus, we have 30-32 hours a week.
The school year starts August ~15. In October, we have Autumn Holiday (one week). December ~20, to January ~5, we have Christmas Holiday. Week 8 is time for Winter Holiday (one week), then we have eight days off during Easter. Then no more holidays until Summer Holiday, which starts about June ~20.
~ = A few days more or less.
Quote from: Cobraroll on May 07, 2009, 01:14:50 AMOur school system is quite simple. I'll explain my year only, as I can't remember the number of hours from last year.
We have 12 hours of obligatory subjects this year. (4x Norwegian, 2x PE, 4x Language (French, German or Spanish), 2x History) Then we have to choose four subjects, with five hours each a week (some subjects only have three hours). Thus, we have 30-32 hours a week.
The school year starts August ~15. In October, we have Autumn Holiday (one week). December ~20, to January ~5, we have Christmas Holiday. Week 8 is time for Winter Holiday (one week), then we have eight days off during Easter. Then no more holidays until Summer Holiday, which starts about June ~20.
~ = A few days more or less.
Yeah I forgot the subjects.
I have:
4x Latin
4x Greek (which makes 8x a week of Ancient Languages =O)
2x English
3x Dutch
3x French (which makes 16x a week of languages while others normally have 9)
3x Physics
2x Chemistry
4x Maths (Which I LOATHE)
2x PE
3x Biology
1x Sitting in the library
And some others hours I can't remember
Wow that's pretty interesting, it seems that you have as many days off as I have. The only positive thing about the Austrian school system is that we have 2 months summer holidays!!!
The teachers are in my country the scapegoats. They always get blamed for being lazy, for getting too much paid and so on. Is this "usual" in your country too?
Teachers are said to be given (what a lovely verbs) not enough salary, the exact opposite. And they can't calculate themselves, so how are they gonna teach that to children. Especially with the "black" schools, there's a lot of problems.
My school runs from 7 to 2, mon-fri. Teachers must teach 6 periods out of nine (40 minute periods). A school year is 180 days. School runs from the beginning of September to the end of June. (We get a lot of days/weeks off in between)
Teachers get dirt cheap salaries here.
And I like the flexibility of Greekgeek's schedule, I wish we had something like that instead of 6 periods a day, lunch, rinse and repeat. No flair to it.
Wow I didn't expect so many differences. I supposed that there would be slightly differences... GreekGeek may I go to your school ::)?
Quote from: dahans on May 07, 2009, 12:43:45 PMWow I didn't expect so many differences. I supposed that there would be slightly differences... GreekGeek may I go to your school ::)?
Haha, it's the hardest school in Holland (and that's serious), so I wouldn't recommend it :P
But it's cool to have such flexibility indeed.
Are there any people who have lunch school, i.e. school cooks the meals?
We don't, we have to take our own dirty sandwiches with us.
Pretty much all the schools in the US have school-provided lunches.
i'm in the IB program, im in the middle of my finals right now though -_-
for any1 who doesnt know... in IB you have to take one subject from 6 different groups which amounts to six subjects which can be taken at higher or standard levels (self-explanatory)... in addition to those you have to take theory of knowledge (lame excuse for philosophy) and do CAS which is basically doing arts stuff, sports stuff and volunteer stuff...
My school last year, (much more representative than an online school) was supposed to have 7 hours of school, with lunch excluded, (30 mins long) and the teachers hours, varied a lot, one of my teachers would have all of his TAs do the work, (short of his 1 AP class) one the other hand, another of my teachers spent easily 10 hours/day, so I'd say, it definitely varied, which is actually, I think the best, I believe in efficiency, teachers teach their classes, and get the grading done, what more is there to say.
To my school this year, each of the teachers has a set hew hours to which they devote to grading the work done by the students, all of the assignments and lectures are online and can be done at anytime. The teaching job, for them, is a side-job.
Quote from: kotorfanboy on May 07, 2009, 04:16:25 PMPretty much all the schools in the US have school-provided lunches.
That would be so cool. We only have two vending machines that always swallow your money and then run out of power. And the candy's horrible.
Yeah we have something similar, but we can decide wether we want to eat there or not. It's just for the break to get a snack but not really cooked food.
Just weak unhealthy nasty food...imo
8:30 until 3:15 here.
I wanna be german- they only do school until about midday.
Yeah the german school system is quite similar to the austrian. School starts at 8:00 and ends at half past one. Sometimes school ends at 5:50 that sucks.
Italian schools go from 8-12:30, I believe (but they go 6 days a weak).
My school's lunches are terrible, but if you're a junior or senior, you can walk down the street to buy food. It is NYC, so you barely have to walk a block to get to a deli or something.
...I just realized, some of you aren't American and probably don't know what a junior or senior is. Huh.
9th Grade=Freshmen
10th=Sophomores
11th=Juniors
12th=Seniors
I didn't know that thats funny.
Yeah...and what's really funny is that everyone uses those terms...
Quote from: Tranzlater on May 08, 2009, 08:19:37 AMI wanna be german- they only do school until about midday.
*brain explodes*
WHY THE HELL DOES SOMEBODY WANT TO BE GERMAN?! :o ???
Quote from: GreekGeek on May 08, 2009, 11:45:47 PMQuote from: Tranzlater on May 08, 2009, 08:19:37 AMI wanna be german- they only do school until about midday.
*brain explodes*
WHY THE HELL DOES SOMEBODY WANT TO BE GERMAN?! :o ???
What do you mean by that?
Quote from: dahans on May 09, 2009, 01:18:29 AMQuote from: GreekGeek on May 08, 2009, 11:45:47 PMQuote from: Tranzlater on May 08, 2009, 08:19:37 AMI wanna be german- they only do school until about midday.
*brain explodes*
WHY THE HELL DOES SOMEBODY WANT TO BE GERMAN?! :o ???
What do you mean by that?
It's just a joke, don't be serious right away :o My best friend is German ;)
I know that the reputation of the germans is not really good . (I think that's because of Hitler) Actually Hitler was born in Austria.
And I hope that this was a joke because when someone misunderstands you get into troubles.
Yeah when I first heard the American system I got really confused.
The english system is:
INFANT SCHOOL
R- Reception
1
2
JUNIOR SCHOOL
3
4
5
6
SECONDARY SCHOOL
7
8
9
(still in secondary school)
GSCE
10
11
(Optional)
COLLEGE
12
13
Then university.
EDIT: Oh, and 'Grade 9' in America is 'Year 10' in England, I think.
Quote from: dahans on May 09, 2009, 02:03:24 AMI know that the reputation of the germans is not really good . (I think that's because of Hitler) Actually Hitler was born in Austria.
And I hope that this was a joke because when someone misunderstands you get into troubles.
Adolf isn't the reason for me. And I know Hitler was born in Austria.
And it's very kind of you, but I don't think I'll get into troubles ;)
I don't understand the term 'kindergarden'.
Quote from: SirIngusBingus on May 09, 2009, 08:59:54 AMI don't understand the term 'kindergarden'.
lol kindergarden (I think it is written kindergarten) foreign word of the german language. I think you know kindergarten as nursery school or?
Kindergarten or -den or whatever it is, is the year before 1st grade in America (attended at age 5). Unlike preschool, kindergarden is mandatory.
Really in america it is mandatory? In Austria it isn't. You can decide (or better your mother) if you go to kindergarten or not.
It's being mandatory is ridiculous, but, you can homeschool a year like that,(as long as either the mom or dad is home)
New Hampshire doesn't have kindergarten.
Also, my class time is from 7:15 A.M. to 1:49 P.M.
Quote from: jake3343 on May 09, 2009, 07:44:28 PMNew Hampshire doesn't have kindergarten.
So, wait...do you start 1st grade at age 5, or 6? Cause if you start at 5 that's not right, you'd be graduating a year ahead of us!
In most states one must start at five, some states however, do start at 6, I know a few of those
Wow that's interesting. In Austria school is mandatory at 5 years.
First of all, some people may be confused: New Hampshire has Kindergarten, it's just not required. Many towns have kindergarten, most of them even with public kindergartens.
And, New Hampshire requires that all towns have public kindergarten now. A dozen or so towns still don't, and they have until sometime this year to get kindergarten available. Not sure when the deadline is.
That's what I've heard, at least.
And I'm saying that some states, have students begin kindergarden at 6
Children here attend Kindergarten when they're 4 y.o. :-\
wow...
England has Reception, a psuedo Kindergarten.
We start school at 4.
When do you finish? We graduate at 17. At least, most of us do...
Mandatory 15-16
Most people do college- that's another 2 years
So generally 18.
If you're including college, we don't get out until anywhere from 20-25.
People can choose between roughly three kinds of education:
VMBO: worst education for the stupid people (4 years)
HAVO: mediocre education for the less stupid people (5 years)
VWO: best education for people who want to look like they're not stupid (6 years)
And you have chosen the VWO, am I right? :)
Yeah, actually Gymnasium, which is a harder specie of VWO and where you have to learn the Ancient Languages.
Latin and greek? I am learning Latin myself and I am fascinated. I love to translate Ovid (ars amatoria, amores, metamorphoses) and Vergil. It's amazing.
Latin and Greek indeed. Ovid's metamorphoses are quite dull, I'm sorry. We're readin' Vergil at the moment and the Aenaies are great. The Iliad is ten times better though.
The oldest language my high school offers is Italian.
...But I love Italian ;D
I studied some Italian as well.
Latin is nicer though in my opinion.
Italian has more flow than Latin. But I still wish I could take Latin at my school...
Correct.
But Italian grammar is built this way that it's an exception if a word isn't an exception, isn't it?
No, most of Italian is very regular. More than I expected, actually.
Quote from: SirIngusBingus on May 18, 2009, 12:32:49 PMNo, most of Italian is very regular. More than I expected, actually.
Okay. Then my Grammar book was unnecessarily difficult.
you think Ovid is dull? OK might be. I really would like be able to translate in greek. Ilias must be great.
Quote from: dahans on May 18, 2009, 01:10:22 PMyou think Ovid is dull? OK might be. I really would like be able to translate in greek. Ilias must be great.
Well his stories are interesting, but we've had to read some much of him that it gets kinda dull.
And Greek is far more fun than Latin.
It was great if my school would offer greek. 20 years ago they did. And 20 years ago we had to translate from german into greek/latin. That must have been difficult...
I love to translate stories English -> Greek (which is extra hard since my english is bad)
First of all your English is great, much better than mine (although I think that I can't decide wether you are good or bad). And could you post something in greek? I would be very interested.
Quote from: dahans on May 19, 2009, 09:31:10 AMFirst of all your English is great, much better than mine (although I think that I can't decide wether you are good or bad).
Thanks :)
The last thing is a bit of a problem, since I don't have Bètacode or something like that anymore and this site can't display SPIonic (the best Greek font there is).
Î'γαπω Ï,,ο ÎινσιειμοÏ...σικο.
That's the best this computer can create.
And what does that mean? (Unfortunatelly I don't speek Greek)
I love Ninsheetmusic
xD ego etiam.
Pulchrum, omnes latinam amant.
Pora, et styven ressma.
Leuk, laten we rare talen tegen elkaar gaan praten.
SPEAK ENGLISH!!!
We will :'(
Quote from: SirIngusBingus on May 19, 2009, 11:34:24 AMPora, et styven ressma.
That was a famous quote in a very old language known as To Talbul Lcra 'P.
What are you talking about?
What's fantastic?
Quote from: SirIngusBingus on May 19, 2009, 01:15:06 PMThat was a famous quote in a very old language known as To Talbul Lcra 'P.
Quote from: Brassman388 on May 19, 2009, 08:58:08 PMWhat are you talking about?
Say it out loud.
I hate school.
Very well. That's the thought.
L-L-L-L-L-L-LAST DAY! ;D
16 y.o. in 32 days ;D
I have about 3-4 weeks left. We have a fucked up finals week schedule because of a week we missed of school during the winter thanks to a snowstorm. Most teachers are going to have finals way before finals week, so it's basically going to be a week to just dick around and do nothing.
Quote from: Gamer4250 on May 21, 2009, 09:05:44 AMto just dick around and do nothing.
Sounds like school to me...
But it sucks.
Umm... yeah... we have quite a while left, but half term hols yay...
Half term? What, you're only halfway through?
Can't be, we still got 5 lessons to go.
Tranz, you're livin' in a very odd country.
Damn it! I have to take my spanish final!
I'll have my finals when I'm 16, while others are 18-20 :o
I have to take mid terms and finals every year.
Djeez..
The education system is a failure here. The last month or so I've gotten away with doing almost nothing, only mandatory assignments etc and I still get high marks. There have been days where I have literally done no work whatsoever.
Thats exactly what I did today!
Sorry guys, I take the cake, 80% of ALL the assignments for one class in the semester done in ONE DAY!!! Yes, I passed!!! Try and top that one.
What should I do today now that I'm done with high school?
Play TF2.