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Again and welcome back to america under the microscope

欢迎又回到贤华美国

Hello

James

Hello

Everyone so last time we talked about raising a kid from essentially starting from the pregnancy to todeller to presschool

Yes

That's right

So today let's continue in the episode

Let's talk about what they do

After they episised their presschool

So that will be something called k twelve

Right Yes

What we call k twelve

Education cation

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现在好像很流行说这个k twelve

国内的这些培训机构也经常说k 十二

K 十二

What is k twelve

Well

K twelve is actually just the years k meaning kindergarten ten and twelve meaning great twelve

But everything in twtween k hone minute last time you said it's not called kindergarten

It's called presschool

There are actually two different things in the united states

Okay

Preschoal in the united states

And like china is kindergarten

But kindergarten in americas are first year of elementary school

所以free school 相当于是幼儿园

然后kindergarten 相当于是小学一年级

And you call it elementary school uh

Although some americans will prepritary school

But

But gengenally ally will eleelementary school

Um

Most students that will go to public elementary school

Yeah

Almost all of them

Because private is expensive and public is completely come pletely free

Yes

I'm assuming there are good schools and bad schools

And how do you try to get into good schoools

Ethere's one factor and only one factor that decisides which school you go to

And it is where you live do you

You have to the or or

学区房的概念吗

Thankfully

No all you have to do with live in that area

So if you rent

Or if you live with family grandpainor

Whatever you can still go to the school in that district

Oh

That's good

But i would assume that

If the school is good enough the rent will be high

You were not wrong so same thing all over the world

So you said kindergarten is the first year of elementary school

Yes

But it's not exactly the first great

Because it's a little bit different in kindergarden kids go to school only hhalf day either morning or afternoon

It's to get the children used to a school life going to class

Listen to teachers and things like that okay

So this is kind of easing them in into

Yeah

That's the idea

And you said they can go either in the morning or afternoon

They can

They can choose the parents usually can choose i was in the morning session

Because it was easier from my mother um

And it did you have to go on the school bus

I did take the school bus

Yes

And after you finish kindergarten

You go into great one

Yeah

You start great one

What kind of subjects is

Is this roughly the same as chchina

It would fafaly equivalent alalthough they don't learn chinese

Some of them do now

But maybe some of them do now

But in general kids will learn math

English are what we call language

Arts

Science

History on pe class are classes

Um music classes as well

And how big are the classes in general about twenty to thirty kids

But it really will depend on the size of the town

Youurth

So you go to different class groups

Or not exactly this is quite different from what a lot of people have in china

So in elementary school kids spend most of the day with the same teacher

Same teacher

Teaching all the subjects

Not all the subjects

But the courore subject of math

Science

Language

Arts and history would all be one teacher

Basically their homework teacher

Pe music are would be sad teacers

But that still sounds like a lot of work for that one teacher

Well

It would be

But you had to think with this way in elementary school teachers teach kids

Small pieces of each of them

So it's not so bad for the teacher um and do they learn foreign language at this stage

Um that honestly depends from school to school

When i always growing up

There were spanish classes

That were offered

But that's not always the norm

That's the nornorthat's not what everyone does us no

These classes are they more like the teachers teteaching

Giving a cture ture

No no really to learn more about group work and ccooperative learning

Because they want the kids to work together

And explore as they learn there is some teacher led lessons

Um

But in general

They try to make it more interactive for the students

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所以还是互动性更强

So they have group project

But starting from the first grade we do

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And what about homework

I think a lot of people would want to know how much homework

What homework

So no homework for that year elementary college basically to inforse grade and second grade homework is fairly uncommon

Um as it go through

Through years

Yeyes

They starting more and more homework

But in general

It's not lots of homework

The most common thing would be spelling lists and reading assignments 拼写

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然后再就是阅读的一些

Or sometimes projects

Sometimes yeah

And apart from academic these subjects do they have any special events during the stage

Oh Yeah

All year the elementrischool has all kinds of eevents proprojegoing going on for students like um so usually during the big project

Like around christmas stetime

Theyll ll do concerts or place for chilchiln n take part in ok and the spring

When the weather is so so usually be a sports stestay similar to china

They might do science fares

Or the kids do a project

And then they display them in the gym

Parents will come and see them

Ah h 科作品品展

You see that in a lot of american tv shows

So then kids go to middle school

Yeah

Once a complete defits grade they move on to middle school

And that's still free from eleddacand right

Absolutely they're not taught by the same teacher

Anymore are they no middle school and elementary school at quite diffedifferent starting in middle school

Kids are moving from class to class

And they have different teachers for every subject

You know

In chinese schools they always try to rank the kids

They give the kids the number one

Number two

Number three ranking

And some of the good kids they probably will go into a more advanced class

Is that the same

Do you have the same

Not exactly the same

The school don't exactly rank the students

Top in bottom students

Because that would make parents very upset

If they did that

But at middle school

They do ststart sorting students based on ability um

So the high achihieving students will sometimes be moved into more advanced classes

Or maybe even if thethey're in great six put into the great seven or even great eight classes

Thethey're really advance 就是可以跳级

而且也有快班的这个概念

There's not really that different

Because at this stage what about outside of their classrooms

It's still have some of the school events

But they become a lot more options

And there's a bigger emphasis starting now on sports

Because the middle would have the school teams

That uh the students can join and compete against other schools

And this is more serious

Sports not just play for fun

No

These are definitely serious

Is kids

That they join the teams

They have class in the afternoons um

They have sports practice

And then usually one day

Week they'll have a sports meet

And they can even win championships

Um okay

So then move on to high school

That would be grades nine two twelve to four years

Uh yeah

American high schools are four years

And it is still free

Compulsory yep still free

That's a very long period of compulsory education

你们的义务教育是有thirteen years yep conregarten a great one thirteen years years so what's the difference between high school and middle school

So in middle school we start to change classes

Free subject and change teachers

You subject the step of high school is now we choose those classes

And we can even choose our teachers

If there are options

And how did they go into high school

Is it still based on where they live yep unless you live in a big city like new york

Where they can actually test you into different high schools

Based on a unique skills from most uniamericans

It's just bason on again where you live

Also if want want kids to get tting into better school school ah ll just have to move yeah

Or if you're from a small time unlike me

There was just one high school

So there was no choice

Oh Okay

All right

So they will have required classes

And then optional right

So when we get to high school

We're told uh

We're given a good list of classes that we have to take

And so we can choose one to take um

The um great twelve students have first priority on class choice

Great nine have twwest priority

So the older you are the better choices

You have

And you need to complete these classes within the four years

And is it based on credit

是学分制吗

Not exactly tes more legies based on completing a class

The classes don't have pointer credits

Ok

You just trying to get good grades

Ds do all the students from high school are they all aiming to get into university

Get into college

Well the high school would like you to think that

But no

University is not the golf of a high school students in fact fewer than seventy percent of american high school students even go on to college

By the way here college in american english college would be universy

Another way of saying university we colcollein america includes university technical schools or anything post high school education uh because in british english college 是另外的意思

College 在insuing untimal uk 的意思

You just mention under seventy high school students were go into college

What about the rest well the other thirty years so perction ted high school students if they go lucky enough to go to a high school with like a technical programs

They can get certificates ather in high school

And

And allow them to go on to trades like pluming or being electrian vocational education right

And some like my elder brother he joined the army right out a high school

And then some will just go straight to work high school is also when when ororts start to get very serious yeah in high school

And many parts of the country is sports is not just the school activity

It's an entire community activity

The students they join the teams

And the the best students get on a special team called of varsity team

A varsity team 就是校队

And varsity teams sometimes get so popular

People even bat on them

Yes

They do this happens in some part of the country

It is not encouraged

It's not encouraged um talking about sports

What are the most popular varsity sports

The most popolar vversity sports are basketball

Are basketball and football

America

American football to 橄榄球

And if you are a very good player

Do you actually get scholarship to a good university

It is possible

But the likelihood is still fairly low

So if you're really good

And the university notice as you

Then it is possible

That the university offers you are scholarship to play the sport for them um

But it should never be a goal of your education 啊

所以就有点像体育特长生

And then you can get university scholarship

But then again

It's very rare

Isn't it yes

It's quite rare

Okay

Think that pretty much covers kate twelve education in our advanced episode

We are going to develop on that

And get a bit deeper into this topic

Thank

Thank you

James

Thank you for having me