Thread:ItsBarbara/@comment-5170103-20131027073719/@comment-24092938-20150207210913

Our education system is weird compared to yours. xD

Kids start school at age 6/7 and go to school by age 14/15, which means it lasts eight years. That's elementary or primary or however do you wanna call it. We call it osnovna which means ''basic. ''xD Everyone has to go to elementary, and then comes high school. Not everyone has to go, but a small number of people don't go. This is where it gets kinda complicated. You know how in every class there's the better and the worse students? Well, after elementary, you kinda have to decide what do you wanna do for the rest of your life. Thaaaaat's right. You go to a school you want to (if you have grades good enough). The kids with A's usually go to Gymnasium, which is where I go. It lasts four years and it's basically a prep school for college. You learn a lot of things there, and is the best choice if you wanna go to college. But, when you finish Gymnasium, and don't wanna go to college, there's a small chance you'll get a job somewhere because you didn't go to a school where they taught you to be a nurse or a florist or a salesman. In Gymnasium we just have the basic things like Croatian, math, biology, geography, foreign languages (English, German, Latin, Italian) and stuff. There are also schools for kids who are gonna work in the public sectors, like be florists or nurses or salesman. xD You get it? The kids in the second school usually don't go to college. Those are usually the ones who have D's, C's and stuff. After high school comes college and you can get in a certain college if you have a good GPA and if you were good on your SATs.

Okay I just explained you the entire Croatian educational system. HAHAHAHAAH