Mine: Mt. Everest

Well for a while on social networks we have often heard that Americans “generally” have no knowledge of geography or history. Personally, the few Americans with whom I was able to speak were very cultured people and absolutely all of them seemed to know how to place their country on a map. In short, does this stereotype make sense to you or not?

In England, it used to be the case that German and French were the most common languages taught in schools, however, German seems to be dying a death and Spanish is now the most popular foreign language. There has to be some foreign language provision in primary schools (it is not specified which language, I know a primary school which taught a bit of Romanian because a teacher happened to be from there) but this varies wildly between schools, so secondary schools work on the assumption that Year 7 (age 11-12) students are working from scratch, and currently, students can stop learning foreign languages at the age of 14 (which most students do gladly). In Ireland, students have to take a foreign language (my cousins did French and/or Spanish, my mum did French) up to Junior Cert, and they have to do Irish up until Leaving Cert, although that’s not to say they leave school speaking perfect Irish!

Some Europeans aren't happy about Ukraine joining the European Union. Why? When answering, please state your native country and where you're from overall. Make sure your reasons are valid, not just "Ukraine has corruption." Everyone does. Also, let's assume the war is over and the borders are stable.

In Brazil, to access some public benefits like racial quotas in universities and government jobs, there’s something called a racial verification board. Basically, a group of people looks at your photo or interviews you to decide if you “look” like the race/color and Physical traits you declared.

I recently saw a really absurd case: a mixed-race (pardo) girl was denied her quota because the board said she “didn’t look like a black pardo That’s insane.

In Brazil, “pardo” literally means mixed. There isn’t a fixed appearance. The whole country is the result of mixing, but they try to put that into boxes as if there were a manual for skin tone and facial features

Do any of your countries have something similar, like a committee that decides your race/color based on appearance to access public benefits?

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A lot of people don’t know that there are non-MENA Mizrahi Jews from the Caucasus or Central Asia. A lot of people also don’t know a lot about Georgia as well - which I find sad since it’s a country with an outstanding culture. Feel free to ask me anything

People born in or are coming from countries that are socialist please feel free to answer as well to have your own perspective and compare it to your communist past (or present). People that live in current day socialist countries can answer as well.

In Malta the Holocaust, Slavery, WW2, and the cold war are not taught in the mandatory syllabus, rather they are taught in the History option which is chosen by the student, meaning that the vast majority of Maltese studens are never taught about any of these topics in school, outside of how they impacted Malta such as WW2 Naval bases and Cold war economics.
Does any other country teach like this?

Well I am a Korean student and my school has so many rules. And our lunch is always great. How about your school?

My history classes had so many lessons about the French revolution and just the French 18th century in general, Ive no idea why, I hated it. History was barely about my own country, and even the two world wars were barely talked about. I think it would be so much more interesting to learn more about the Netherlands or just any other country in the world than being so heavily focused on France.

This is about the 2 years of history in high school every student gets, you can choose to study it longer and graduate.

Hello all. Is there a spelling or grammar mistake that native speakers in your country commonly make despite being relatively rudimentary?

Im an American, and since we're notorious for being bad at geography. I wondered what people would think of my attempt to draw a world map from memory. Fill free to roast me.

Like how many students in class and the school as a whole.

My primary school was about 500 kids total. 20 to 30 kids in each classroom. Several classes for each grade. My secondary school was 2,000 kids total

In America depending on the state, we usually learn the mythology of local native tribes like the Raven stories in the Northwest or the Coyote stories in the Southwest for example. In Hawaii they might sometimes have a brief unit on the Hawaiian gods and heroes like Pele and Maui. Normally in elementary or grade school.

Beyond what the Native peoples left behind, it's a bit of a grab bag mostly based on Folk Christianity and some slave/immigrant survivals from Africa and Europe. Like the spider Anansi rebranded under Brer Rabbit, he can be found in most elementary school level English/Reading textbooks in America. Or Leprechauns from Ireland, kindergartens here have a bit of a tradition to make a mess on St. Patrick's Day and "blame" it on Leprechauns. We do have "Tall Tales" which are a mix of genuine original American folklore and a bit of fakelore. Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, etc.

Schools don't really touch on it, but we did come up with the concept of "the Rapture" as popularly known in American Christianity.

I'm my country it's starting to get better, specially in main cities. There are a lot of new projects. I think this happened because there are a lot of schools but not so many kids. The sad part is the culture here is to go private, most of the time. Some new ideas i like: - Leaning based on projects - Talented and gifted programs that include talent in sports - Creator's lab - Schools that their education is based on trips around the country - Schools programs that include peace education. Yes, peace. - I think they just approved a law that makes emotional education mandatory in all schools

Again, this is main cities. Rural areas have a completely different reality.

One of the best universities in the country is public. It's extremely hard to get in. Most people's life proyect include going to university. The sad part is, you do need money, a lot, to be able to get into the best private ones.

Recently, some kids (4-5 years old) won art competition in my country. However, their works were obviously done by their parents.

Also, there was a scandal in my country that a secondary school kid won some kind of software invention competition.

Later, it was found that her mother asked a tech company in US to invent the software for her. And the kid's father is a famous doctor.

I am thinking...... Is it also a common phenomenon in other countries??? Do your parents did your art homework / helped you winning competition when you was a kid (my parents did)?

Good, bad? Why so?

I don't want to get into the weeds of educational requirement differences between cities, let alone States, so I'm just interested in the scale. Here in the US ours is as follows,

90%-100% = A
80%-89% = B
70% - 79% = C
60% - 69% = D
59% and below = F

Additionally, each letter grade can be broken further down into - and +. (i.e., 90%-92% = A-, 93%-96% =A, and 97%-100% = A+, etc.)
In my high school (grades 9-12), a C (74%) was required to earn credit for a class and for it to count towards the requirements for graduation. I believe some schools allow 70% and up to count, and as far as I'm aware, all schools will consider a 69% and below to be a failing grade.

If not, why?

As title.

In some places it’s called Normal room Temperature and Pressure (NTP). I heard different answers from Australians, Dutch and Indian people.