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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a teacher in Germany for three years.  [b]Their school system tracks kids into types of high school based on their ability levels and goals.[/b]  This means that high-performing kids go to the most challenging, rigorous schools where everyone is expected to go to university, while kids who want to go into trades are in high schools with a built-in apprenticeship program and career services to help them move directly into their fields.  And there are levels in between as well.  Before anyone says it, no, you aren't necessarily "locked out" of uni if you don't go to a gymnasium, either.  Everyone gets the kind of specialized support and programs to support them where they are and help them get where they want to go.

In the US, everyone is just thrown together, with the top falling to the middle and teachers desperately devoting all energy to pulling the bottom also to the middle.  The actual middle-performers are left to languish where they are.  It's a mess.  [/quote]

And the social/economic class of their parents.[/quote]

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