Oli
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Post by Oli on May 31, 2007 8:14:09 GMT -5
yeh i get you, and its an intresting idea, when is all of thsi going to happen??
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Brokenhearts
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Post by Brokenhearts on May 31, 2007 10:08:49 GMT -5
YAY!!!!!! sum1 understands!!!!! any1 else?
its gonna happen wen evry1s agreed on lessons ect ect
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Post by AshVersion2 on May 31, 2007 11:48:43 GMT -5
I like that idea. I don't have to work as hard then.
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Post by Angie on May 31, 2007 12:00:14 GMT -5
I just thought of a major problem. As I've talked with various people from other countries, I've come to find that schools are run quite differently in Britain than they are in America. I think this could pose some hurdles for us. Especially since my school's one of the weirdest of them all. . .
For example, in America, it doesn't really matter how much schooling you've had if you don't have a high school diploma (which you get around age 18, after 12 years of school plus kindergarten and optionally preschool), but apparently you can still get an "honorable discharge" of sorts from some schools in Britain before then?
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Post by Oli on May 31, 2007 12:01:52 GMT -5
well isn't it possible to work upon a system which we all agree upon, taking ideas from both the USA system and the UK system? that way people know what is going on, and what get confused.
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Post by Angie on May 31, 2007 12:06:29 GMT -5
Exactly. We need to establish precisely how things are going to be run.
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Post by Chris on May 31, 2007 12:14:52 GMT -5
Perhaps everyone can say a little something about how their individual schools are run so we can start planning?
I'm not gonna talk about mine, 'cause I live in a third world country, and things here are so lax, I swear.
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Brokenhearts
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Post by Brokenhearts on May 31, 2007 12:26:00 GMT -5
heh- 3rd world countries aint nessicarily lax... luk @ Pak. u fail 1 test in the exam period and u have 2 repeat all ovr again uh... ask ash about ours- i cn barely keep up with mi work load let alone understand hw i got there
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Post by Angie on May 31, 2007 12:28:45 GMT -5
Well, like I said, it doesn't matter how much education you have until you get a high school diploma. Approximate ages and grades:
Ages 5-11: elementary/grade school Ages 11-14: middle school or junior high school Ages 14-18: high school
We're not going to worry about elementary or middle school, so I'll describe high school.
First year of high school, approximately age 14-15 is freshman year. Then it's sophomore, junior, and senior. I'm about to be a senior.
At my school, you take four classes a day (they're about an hour and a half long each), and eight a year (four per semester). Each semester you complete is a "credit", and you need so many credits to graduate. You pick all your classes, and you graduate if you pass most of your classes (I think you're allowed to flunk up to 2 electives with no major consequences, but if you flunk a core class, you have to retake it until you pass), and you have taken the required core classes. I believe to graduate, you must take 4 histories, 4 Englishes, 3 sciences, 3 maths, 2 fine arts, and a certain number of electives (which can contain additional core classes if you wish). This year, I took band, trig, spanish III, and U.S. history first semester, and I took band, AP English III, Desktop Publishing, and chem I second semester. Hmm. Is that all I need to say?
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Post by Brokenhearts on May 31, 2007 12:55:35 GMT -5
thts waaaaaaay more complex than england in secondary skl we have frm yrs 7 to 11 (which is 12-16) then we have sixth form/collage which u cn do @ a special 6th form collage or its apart of the origional secondary skl. thats 4 2 yrs. u dnt HAVE 2 retake anythin, bt u can re-take ur GCSEs (which is in yr 10 and 11) and ur A levels (yrs 12-13 (17-18)). in yrs 7-9 u HAVE 2 take english, maths, science, geog, history, RE, 2 languages (1 has 2 b french, the othr is eithr spanish or german (in our skl anyway)),drama, dance, PE, art, ICT, design tech, PCSE and home ec (food tech its othr wise known as). in yr 10 u choose ur GCSEs, bt u need 2 take english maths and sceinces, in our skl our yr had 2 take ICT and home ec 2 then we had a choice of languages, a choice of humanities and then a free 4 all- basically absolutely anything. (eg- i chose spanish as mi languae, RE as mi humanity and drama and sociology as mi free choice). bt the last 1 varies frm skl 2 skl. come yr 12 we can choose pretty much wat evr we want, as long as the skl we go 2 offers it (eg, im takin english language and lituriture, philosophy, maths stats and drama). anythin else?
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Post by AshVersion2 on May 31, 2007 14:24:29 GMT -5
(did we really take that many subjects? Woah . . . ) Five lessons a day, 23 minute break after lesson two, 50 minutes for lunch after lesson three. Registration at 8:35, lesson one at 9, school ends at 3:30. At least, that's mine and AJs school.
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Post by Chris on May 31, 2007 15:08:15 GMT -5
Radical! That's too awesome, our school was nothing like that! I guess maybe I should talk about my school!
Well, you start high school after 8 years of primary school, which starts at age 5. Meaning that you're supposed to be around 12-13 when you start high school. As a first year, you have no options for classes available to you: you are required to take Math, English, Spanish, Integrated Science, History, Geography, Literature and an Elective. Each class was about forty five mintues long.
Electives, as the name misleading implies, has nothing to do with actual choice. The school year is split up into three semeters, and each semester you take a new elective. Electives are distributed among the students in the year evenly at random, so it's basically the only class in your first and second year that you don't spend with your homeroom classmates. The elective classes themselves were Food and Nutrition (probably known as Home EC to you), Clothing and Textiles, Agriculture, Art, Technical Drawing and Woodwork. Electives are usually done in double periods, or before and after break. This is because you need more time for electives, particularly in classes like Food and Nutrition where it won't be enough time to actually cook something.
The only thing different about first years and second years are the elective classes of course. Whatever electives you didn't take in first year, you take in second year, again one every semester. Therefore, by the end of your second year, you should have taken each Elective once cumulatively.
At the end of the second year, you are required to fill out this form. You are supposed to give your top three choices for careers you'd like to pursue, and select one subject from each of the four columns given that you'd like to take in third and fourth year. You are required to take the core subjects Math, English, Spanish and Computers. The choices in the columns are something as follows:
Column 1 - Integrated Science, History, Geography or Social Stuides. Column 2 - Principles of Accounts, Entrepreneurship, Biology Column 3 - Principles of Business, Office Procedures, Chemistry, Literature Column 4 - Woodwork, Clothing & Textiles, Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Art, Technical Drawing, Physics
I can only guess at what it really looked like because it was so long ago, and I know that I chose Biology, History, Literature and Food & Nutrition (it was a bird course, sue me). I know that the sciences were in individual columns so that you could choose more than one or all of them, I know that you were only able to take one of the electives from first and second year, I know that you could only choose one between History, Geography and Social Studies.
First and second year classes were labeled by the number on their class door: I was a 1st/2nd Year 4, 4 being the door number.
The choosing of the aforementioned classes determined what kind of diploma you would get: a science diploma is you took more than one science, a business diploma if you took more than one business subject, a technical diploma if you took Technical Drawing, Woodwork or Agriculture, and an arts diploma if you took Food and Nutrition, Clothing and Textiles or Art. I think Literature also counted for an Arts diploma, but I can't be sure.
Anyway, you were divided into third year classes by what diploma you were going for: therefore you were either labeled a 3rd/4th Year Technical, Arts, Business or Science.
And that's my old high school in so many words.
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Post by Techy on May 31, 2007 15:23:56 GMT -5
Jade, Abby, and my school:
9-12 grade (14-18 years) 6 class hours a day, one HAS to be math, one HAS to be reading/lL.A, one HAS to be science and another HAS to be history. So you're allowed 2 electives. For Freshmen and Sophomores (9th & 10th graders) at least. I'm not sure about Juniors (11th) or Seniors (12th). But there are advanced classes, like Integrated Math, Honors Science, honors L.A and honors history.
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Post by Brokenhearts on May 31, 2007 15:25:54 GMT -5
i love mi skl all of a sudden...
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