In China, the schools are very centralized. You can see a complex of buildings, all in one place, with primary and secondary schools, and even university, at the same location. The classes may have about 60 students each. The students wear uniforms – but as we all know, there are lots of different ways to wear a school uniform!
Students stay in the same classroom, with the same group of fellow students, through the whole school year in high school. They have classes that take about 45 minutes and 8 or 9 classes per day. School starts at 7:00 a.m., and can go until 5:00 p.m. Teachers can add classes to the end of the day, especially for exam preparation, so that you may be in school until 7:00 p.m. The teachers can even add classes on Sundays.
You can choose your program – well, with some other considerations. Your test scores make a difference to which program you will be able to get into; also, teachers can pick students whom they like for their classes. There are science programs and humanities programs. Most students choose the science programs because they think the subjects will be more practical – and also because in the humanities programs require a lot of memorization, and they don’t want to have to do that. Carol’s high school had 23 classes, with 21 of them science program classes, and 2 of them humanities program classes.
The classes are all ranked for the next year by the big examinations at the end of each year. They don’t call the class numbers “levels,” and the classes will use the same textbooks in the same year, most of the time, but some classes will move faster through the books and cover more material. So, classes are in competition with each other. This means that the students in the same class will probably help each other a lot when they have to take exams – although there are sometimes super-smart kids who don’t become very social with the rest of their classmates, and don’t help much.
School is very different in China from the way it is here in Canada. Here you can find some very elite, difficult, and very expensive private schools, like Upper Canada College (for boys), the Bishop Strachan School (for girls), and St. Andrew's College School (for boys). Most of the English-speaking Prime Ministers of Canada went to U.C.C. If you want to see a movie about this kind of school, look at Peter Weir’s 1989 Dead Poets Society, which stars Robin Williams. (It’s in the Nexus on VHS). Here is the last scene of the movie (don’t watch if you don’t want to know the end!)
Students stay in the same classroom, with the same group of fellow students, through the whole school year in high school. They have classes that take about 45 minutes and 8 or 9 classes per day. School starts at 7:00 a.m., and can go until 5:00 p.m. Teachers can add classes to the end of the day, especially for exam preparation, so that you may be in school until 7:00 p.m. The teachers can even add classes on Sundays.
You can choose your program – well, with some other considerations. Your test scores make a difference to which program you will be able to get into; also, teachers can pick students whom they like for their classes. There are science programs and humanities programs. Most students choose the science programs because they think the subjects will be more practical – and also because in the humanities programs require a lot of memorization, and they don’t want to have to do that. Carol’s high school had 23 classes, with 21 of them science program classes, and 2 of them humanities program classes.
The classes are all ranked for the next year by the big examinations at the end of each year. They don’t call the class numbers “levels,” and the classes will use the same textbooks in the same year, most of the time, but some classes will move faster through the books and cover more material. So, classes are in competition with each other. This means that the students in the same class will probably help each other a lot when they have to take exams – although there are sometimes super-smart kids who don’t become very social with the rest of their classmates, and don’t help much.
School is very different in China from the way it is here in Canada. Here you can find some very elite, difficult, and very expensive private schools, like Upper Canada College (for boys), the Bishop Strachan School (for girls), and St. Andrew's College School (for boys). Most of the English-speaking Prime Ministers of Canada went to U.C.C. If you want to see a movie about this kind of school, look at Peter Weir’s 1989 Dead Poets Society, which stars Robin Williams. (It’s in the Nexus on VHS). Here is the last scene of the movie (don’t watch if you don’t want to know the end!)
by Zhao Xun
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HAHA, this is a good one.
This article showed our China education stystem.
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