England crapness
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I don't if anyone else has experience of this, but its not been very long since i've been through the education system in england, and i must add i went to a private grammar school and it was bad enough, god help kids at inner-city comprehensive schools. the system is so messed up that between the age of 14 and 18 kids have to spend most of their time studying for exams or working on coursework, these teenage years are for having fun and getting into harmless trouble, not sitting exams. granted a lot of them are easy because there isn't really much possibility of failing them as the grades range from G to A* and most the final mark is coursework which gets handed between teacher and pupil until every letter and number is in the right place on the work. This is down to the schools league tables, making our "education" establishments so concerned with how well their pupils do in exams and subsequently how high up they come in the league tables, they pretty much forget to teach anything.
Education in England is about passing exams, unfortunately.
If are considering moving here, and have/thinking about having kids, i suggest you stay where you until they have grown-up!I've just noticed that while writing this reply the thread's topic has changed to cars. Oh well.