Hobert Dula: Meh, it's fine. Could be better, could be worse.Here in Ireland, it works out as three years studying for your Junior Certificate (a state exam, it's a test-run for your Leaving Cert) then two years studying for your Leaving Certificate, which determines whether or not you can qualify for the college course you wanted to do. It's six years altogether and can be taught either through English or Irish. Students who do State Exams through Irish are given more marks than students who study it through English.You have the option of doing a Transition Year between the end of your Junior Certificate and the start of your Leaving Certificate course. It's mainly about personal development; you do work experience, projects, trips, etc... It lasts a year and can be good, but a lot of the time schools don't organise enough stuff, you get bored and your mind slowly turns to mush.Overall I'd say it's a decent system, there are areas in which it's severely lacking, such as ! the teaching of maths, where so many students fail. Maths is the trick-knee for the education system in Ireland. The problem with that is the way it's taught. No one knows how to teach it any differently so we're stuck with it for the immediate future.Another problem I see is in English. You need to learn something along the lines of six poems (analysis and all) by eight different poets; so 48 poems all in all; and you will be tested on one. That definitely should be changed in my opinion, it's ridiculous to expect students to learn that much only to need one sixth of it in their exam.Grammar isn't taught with a great deal of focus, it's taken for granted, a lot of that would be due to time-management seeing as we have little enough time as it is to cover the course so going back over the basics isn't an option.A big problem for secondary education here (and I'm sure in many other countries) is funding. Several people have had to leave my school because the school couldn't ! afford to put on any of the classes they had chosen for their ! Leaving Certificate. The subjects that would be put on were chosen based on demand, and about a sixth of my class has had to leave. Most people didn't get all the subjects they chose, I got two out of three of my choice subjects so I'm reasonably happy. One thing I did notice is that non-scientific/practical subjects were the main ones that were put on, subjects that didn't get put on included art, music, religion, history, various languages (the school didn't even add many of the languages on the course as a choice), and so on. I don't know if that was deliberate or due to demand, can't get a straight answer out of the teacher in charge. He's very condescending and lies compulsively so it's hard to actually talk to him; which is less than helpful trying to sort out subjects that we'll probably need for college/university.Also the equipment is terrible, most of the scientific experiments we have to do and have recorded in a notebook are just copied from a textbook and we ju! st say we did it, simply because we don't have the equipment to carry many of them out.I'd say the exams are taken seriously by a vast majority of the people taking them. The stress young people are under during state exams is incredible! There are tears when a person comes out of an exam they think they messed up, breakdowns during study, study sessions of over eight hours (personal experience) and I'd say millions of euros are paid to tutors after school. There's always the small percentage who just waste the opportunity for education and simply slack off, making trouble, but that's the same in all countries I'd imagine. Most of the pressure comes from the student themselves. Parental pressure can be a strong factor but mostly it does come from the young people themselves. And so mental health suffers.But overall I think it's an alright system. It could clearly be better and I've only touched on some subjects that are taught badly, there are numerous of other subjects and! numerous other problems in the system (most of it political) but it's ! not the worst system and I think the fact that we can go to school at all and increase our knowledge is a positive thing. No matter how good or bad an educational system is it should always be improved. The best educational system still needs improvement so it can develop as humanity and the world develops.But one thing I think should be changed is that universally, the education of a person is basically trying to get them to memorise as much as they can! Whether they understand it doesn't really matter, it's just to get them to learn it off by heart so they can regurgitate it onto an exam paper. Get kids thinking for themselves (originally and critically) and you'll get a better developed world from this generation when they go to work.:)...Show more
Season Confalone: I recognise I am now not honestly answering your query however I am gob smacked by way of what you wrote. Primary schooling begins at three years of age and the federal government spends and typical of ! two% of the price range on schooling?! Have those men and women ( within the govt) received their heads firmly caught among their legs preventing the blood to their brains? What does the vast majority of the price range get spent on?
Ismael Sixon: Does that mean those people don't have an interest in studying/doing homework, or grammar isn't taught properly in the schools there?
Gwenda Micheals: Not so good. Many people can' t spell or construct a sentence properly. I live in the USA.
Serita Hefferon: Not so good. someone needs to educate these reporter trolls...
Raul Lushbaugh: It's okay. From 6th grade to 10th grade, we have to study ALL subjects. When we go in 11th grade, we get to choose a stream such as Commerce, Science or Humanities. In 12th grade, we have to give these exams called the Boards which are the most important exams and play a major part for college admissions. Boards used to happen in 10th grade too, but it was too much of stress ! on kids, so they removed it. There were many student suicides during Bo! ards because of the high pressure. That was the negative point. This is about private schools, I don't know about the government ones....Show more
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