Re: OT: School systems (was: Re: Introduction)

Well, since this thread is still going and no one has mentioned Taiwan yet here's
what I know about the school system here. guoxiao 1-6 (equivilant to American
elementary)gouzhong 1-3 (American 7th-9th)gaozhong 1-3 (American 10th-12th)
After that is daxue. I'm not sure if there is testing after gouxiao (lit.
national little) to determine what guozhong (lit. national middle) you may
enter or not, but judging by the general love affair with testing there
probably is. My school starts at guozhong. After guozhong there is testing to
determine if you enter an academic high school or a techincal highschool. The
academic highschools teach math, science, literature, etc, etc. The technical
highschools teach automotive repair, cooking, computer maintinance, nursing and
other such topics along with a minimum of the academic courses. After gaozhong
(high middle) there is testing once again to determine if you go to university
and if so which one and what your major will be. The t!
 ests have all been changed recently and are either much harder or the teachers
have done a less good job of "teaching to the test" (which is if anything even
more rampant here than in the States), because this year the school I teach at
got about 1/4 as many students accepted into universities after teh first test
as last year. Next year this will be a government school attached to one of the
universities. Adam

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