How does this school system compare to yours?

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Cobretti2 said:

- secret sauce no homework

- 3-4 a day at school only (20 hours a week)

- no standardised testing, no multiple choice answers

- encourage you to aim for what you want

- all schools equal standard (as mostly free education and public) so rich kids and poor kids mix and become friends. meaning later in live rich kids will think twice before they screw their mates over

3 last points also apply in Luxembourg. However, we had homework (not tons, but there were) and 30h schoolweeks instead of just 20 (required if you're teaching already 3 different languages in primary school  (equivalent to grade school for those used to that system) plus algebra, history, geography, morality and of course physical education) and only goes up from there, with 36h weeks the year we get our bachelor degrees (though that school year also ends a month early, so that balances out a bit).

We are ranked pretty badly in the PISA tests but that's entirely due to the languages: Germanic and Latin languages don't mix well, but both are needed since early age here. As a result most do well only in either the Latin language or the Germanic languages, but rarely both at the same time. Also, unlike some other countries in those PISA tests, we never excluded children with an immigration background from the statistics.