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Stop calling me a filthy copper, thank you so very much!

Jajamänsan fattas bara!

 

She cut down the book size from, "no less than 25 pages," to, "no more than 18 pages," when she suddenly realized, two fucking days before the due date, that she didn't want to read 25 pages from all 27 students.
So I, with my 28 pages, get points taken away (I'm not re-writing the story and cutting everything out twice).
It's a children's book...how much reading has to be done?

 

As long as it contains nice pictures, it can't fail.

Heh, in my school, our PE theacher had corrected around 100 texts, every text around 10 pages. Then he somehow where able to "forget where he put the grades". So everyone got the highest score.

 

PE? Phys.Ed. ? You write texts in gym class?

 

And that's the only subject you read for those 4 years? Damn! No wonder Your Majesty looks so fit...

 

Not in the US. We have intramural events for that sort of thing. We do, however, have a healthy amount of fencing in gym class.

 

Any classes in axe wielding available? Freaking big beard (or "Danish") axes are so much cooler than these little bendy wire swords.

 

No, since it's nigh impossible to make an axe (even while dull) less fatal.
Also, I don't think I remember seeing axe fights as a part of the olympic events roster. But, I suppose if curling is a sport...

 

I'd take fencing any day over volleyball and standing on your hands. Stupid PE.

 

Weight training was fun for me...but we only did it during the same time as track and field training. Well, it technically wasn't track and field...we didn't have diskus or shot-put practice. Or hurdles. Or pole vaulting...yeah we just ran in a circle until we had gone four miles.

 

We trained dancing the last month of gym class in "high school" (is that an acceptable equivalent?), not just because I was in a class where the ladies outnumbered the gentlemen by 5-6 to one.

 

That depends...I'm not sure how your grade progression goes.
In the US, we have 12 pre-determined grades, and being in your fourth year of high school (more often than not...unless you're stupid) means you're a senior in 12th grade. I was lucky enough to graduate school as a junior (11th grade).
But, dancing? Sure, it's great exercise...but couldn't they find a less demeaning activity for the male students to do?
I know in Germany they have 13 grades...the 13th is for students who show they're really smart. If you're not that great a student over there, you only get to grade 10 or 11, and you're done with primary school.

That's how we got out of archery practice.

 

In Hungary the most common is:

Elementary school: 8 years
High school: 4 years
College/University Bachelor: 3 years
College/University Master: 2 years
College/University PhD: 2 years (if I remember correctly)

(Bachelor/Master is since 2005; there was a single 4-year thingy instead of bachelor+master before)

 

The school system in the US is flawed, then. Elementary to middle school is grades 1 to 8, and high school is grades 9 to 12. This is all considered primary school.
Secondary school is going to college, where the degrees you can earn have about the same grade progression.
Associate- 2 years
Bachelor- 3 to 4 years
Master- 5 to 6 years
Doctorate- 7 to 8 years.

The way the degrees work is a yearly cumulative process. You study a subject for two years and excell, you are an Associate of that subject. Three or four, you are a Bachelor of whatever.
You actually gain the degrees as you pass them, but must people will only display their final result.
We have vocational studies over here as well...but most of the kids who do that aren't good enough for college.