Not like living here, I’m sure.
Actually its kinda cold right now. We are in our one month winter.
Schools are very different here. Primary education (which is elementary + middle school) used to last 8 years, but about one year ago it changed to 9 (and now you get into primary school when you are 5-6, before it was 6-7). Secondary education only lasts 3 years.
In secondary education there is Portuguese (including Literature), Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and History all three years. I also had classes of Statistics, Ethics and “Text Reading and Production”, but I guess these are not official.
Other than that, it is very common to take a “technical course” during secondary education, which essentially teaches you a profession in a lower level than higher education. I took a technical course in Chemistry, but there are courses in Mechanics, Culinary, Informatics, Administration and others. Not everyone passes the admission exams to take those courses, though.
EDIT: By the way, I have a related question. In Brazil, private primary schools are better than public ones. OTOH, public universities are much better than private universities and colleges. Secondary school stays in-between: a few best ones are public, but most of public secondary schools are trash.
I have the impression that in US the private universities are better than public ones, is it true? What about Harvard, MIT, etc, those are private or public universities?
Hm, school? I’m planning on majoring in Linguistics so I’m taking as many languages as I can. Right now I’ve taken 4 years of Spanish (1, 2, 3, and 5; took 1 in middle school) and am taking German and French right now.
Science:
Science 9
Biology
Chemistry
Physics (right now)
English:
English 9
Humanities (both English and Social Studies)
Classical Mythology and Creative Writing
British Literature (right now)
Math:
Algebra 1
Geometry
Algebra 2
Pre-Calculus (right now)
Social Studies:
World Studies
Humanities
AP Government and Early World History (right now)
Other
Programming 1, 2, Advanced, and AP
2D Art, Drawing 1, Drawing 2
I wish they had more languages 
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Usually, because the private universities usually have very high standards for their students.
As for Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, etc. they are private to my knowledge, and INCREDIBLY expensive to attend.
And incredibly hard to get into.
Yes, in general private high schools are better than public high schools, although my school system is really good, so it’s probably better than some private schools.
Our education system is actually pretty broken, at least here in Texas (48th best education system of all the states). It doesn’t help that we are spammed by non-english speaking Mexican immigrants, but even so many public schools are horribly under funded with terrible teachers that teacher’s unions prevent from firing.
O_o but… but… :fffuuu:
Le me guess: it wins from Hawaii (which is touristic) and Alaska (which is covered by ice) 
Here it is worse: public workers (like teachers of public schools) can’t be fired (unless with a justifiable cause, but that does not work well in practice).
Actually I just rechecked those figures, and that was true for about 6 years ago, and we jumped up to about 25th, which is a lot better. I have no idea how we managed that, but oh well. It still isn’t great. I do however remember the stories that I’m sure have been passed on to the worse states.
EDIT: In something that will come as no surprise to anyone who knows about our nation’s capital, it has the worst education system in the country.
EDIT 2: As a side note, the study has a bias somehow to an education system used in Texas, and as such you should probably dock it a few places.
Is obesity noticeable in americuh?
And are your news networks really as stupid as everyone says they are?
Depends where you are. If you are in a lower class area, there are a lot of fat people.
Also inb4foxhate, thought personally I like NPR.
Oh man hahaha
cmon, everybody knows Richard Murdock (the british-born owner of FOX, FX and FOX NEWS) is out just to make as much money as possible. watch CNN, MSNBC HD NET or something else and you’ll see that their far more objective than FOX NEWS. Sadly though, those with the biggest voices (Sean Hannity, Bill O’reily, Sarah Palin & Rush Limbaugh) are often the only ones heard.
I happen to really like PBS for informing me of events. Nova and Frontline consist of some of the best journalists out there.
Fox news doesn’t really have much news right now, so it doesn’t work as a 24 hour news source. It doesn’t mean that that news is necessarily bad, but there just isn’t much of it, most of it being political pundits.
Fox news is really conservative, CNN and NPR are both pretty liberal in my experience, although a lot of people claim NPR’s too conservative. You just need to be careful of bias. I like NPR myself.
NPR is centrist because it’s publicly funded. Fox news is blatantly right-wing and does everything it can to help the GOP, from the top down. MSNBC is split between extreme liberals and extreme conservatives. CNN is middle-of-the-road centrist, biased towards neoliberalism.
PBS could be called “liberal” but that’s only because of the well know adage that facts have a liberal bias. The idea of cable news being “liberal” is laughable and rests upon the false assumption that anything to the left of Fox News = liberal.
We were talking about Fox News in Government class. They right out came and said that the majority of their network is made up of “opinion shows”. And if you watch it, a lot of it is extremely ridiculous.
Oh my god. You’ve got to be kidding me.
Really old news is old.
A month old != really old.