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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Tue Dec 4, 2012, 04:34 PM Dec 2012

Why Finland has the best education system in the world..

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Why Finland has the best education system in the world.. (Original Post) Playinghardball Dec 2012 OP

another advantage of many European education systems Rabid_Rabbit Dec 2012 #1

we used to have racist tracking in the usa...but it was dumped msongs Dec 2012 #2

Rabid_Rabbit

(131 posts)

1. another advantage of many European education systems

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 04:59 PM

Dec 2012

is that after what would correlate to American Junior Highschool, students are split in to either occupational training or an academic upper school. Instead of forcing every student down the same path.

msongs

(67,360 posts)

2. we used to have racist tracking in the usa...but it was dumped

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 05:27 PM

Dec 2012

mandatory tracking systems like that were deemed racist so have been largely dumped. along with that went things like shop, auto shop, anything to do with manual trades except as electives, home ec (OMG remember that...for the girls).

In those days tracking was also sexist, girls did not go to trade tech and boys were not allowed in home economics.

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