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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to see how Singapore school system works, go to you tube and search for the video Inside Singapores Elite Education System by SBS Dateline

The show walks through the pressure that 11 year olds have on them to prepare for the test to attend HS. A low score sends you to vo Tech school where they teach things like cooking and how to be a barista. This schooling starts at 12.

70% of kids are participating in tutoring programs. The kid that they followed is in school from 9-1:30, science tutoring for 2 hours, drama class for 2 hours, and then has 2 hours of homework before bed.

So when we are comparing HS test scores, remember that we are comparing only the kids who test into the college prep classes vs all of the kids who attend HS in the US.

And this system is not unique to Singapore, it exists across a lot of Asia.

European education is somewhere between the US and Singapore. [/quote]

Germany sorts kids at around 15 into apprenticeships/votech or college-bound.[/quote]

The French do something similar. I was sent to the scientific section with speciality in biology. They said I didn't have the grades for the math/physics section. When I graduated school I couldn't get into an engineering program because of that. I randomly picked medicine even though I didn't want to be a doctor. But I was stuck because they sent me to the biology speciality in HS.

Thank God the US is not backward like that. I came here and studied engineering.[/quote]

The French and German educational systems are hardly “backward.”  They have both proven they are far more effective, practical, and efficient than the current U.S. system.

In the U.S., we are headed in the wrong direction, educationally.[/quote]

They are different philosophical approaches to education. The US tries to provide the same opportunities to everyone. Europe and Asia sort kids based on abilities at a young age limiting opportunities. If European and Asian countries included test results for the kids in the votech programs, which start at 12, their test scores would drop. [/quote]

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