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Aug 18, 2013 15:50:41 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 15:50:41 GMT -5
That i can understand. When it snows here we also get alot of ice. For trains that is very dangerous. But people always complain about them without thinking that over. I don't think trains have problems with 10 centimeters of snow and they also adapted their schedule when it was hot... they just do it whenever the weather changes. And they always have those "weather alarms" which always turn out to be exaggerated. The rails expand when it's really hot wich is, just like the afore mentioned ice, very dangerous. Something people overlook just to complain. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:51:28 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:51:28 GMT -5
Ahh Yes we have Kindergarten as well so I'm used to that. The we have Primary School Grades 1-3 (ages 6-9) then Middle school grades 4-6 (Ages 9-12) then Junior High grades 7-9 (Ages 12-15) then High school where you graduate Grades 10-12 (Ages 15-18) after that you go to college or university where you study for your career. College I guess would be similar to your animal course  . And you're not split up into levels at your schools, are you? No we have different schools for each pretty much. Grades 1-6 sometimes 1-8 like I had where in there own school. Then you go to a new school for 9-12 and then a new school or even a new city for college and University, |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:52:21 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 15:52:21 GMT -5
That i can understand. When it snows here we also get alot of ice. For trains that is very dangerous. But people always complain about them without thinking that over. To be honest hearing you guys talk about Snow and cold is kinda laughable from where I live no offence I just see worse temperatures, We know. People tend to make a big deal out of nothing in our country. Atleast that's how i see our country. It annoys me deeply. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:53:04 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:53:04 GMT -5
I don't think trains have problems with 10 centimeters of snow and they also adapted their schedule when it was hot... they just do it whenever the weather changes. And they always have those "weather alarms" which always turn out to be exaggerated. The rails expand when it's really hot wich is, just like the afore mentioned ice, very dangerous. Something people overlook just to complain. Rails are made of copper, and copper doesn't expand much. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:53:32 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 15:53:32 GMT -5
First we have Kindergarten until the age of 4 (i believe that was it) Then we go to Group 1 all the way to 8. From there on we go to a new school. I believe that is what Pinda means with Secondary. We call "Middelbaar Onderwijs" (We call it colleges as well btw) You say there for 4 years and then go a higher school (the one i am on now) and you stay there for you particular education until it's over. The years vary per educations. I have 3 years of Animal Health Care education and i will start my second year in 2 days. Ahh Yes we have Kindergarten as well so I'm used to that. The we have Primary School Grades 1-3 (ages 6-9) then Middle school grades 4-6 (Ages 9-12) then Junior High grades 7-9 (Ages 12-15) then High school where you graduate Grades 10-12 (Ages 15-18) after that you go to college or university where you study for your career. College I guess would be similar to your animal course . Those are a lot of schools. I wonder what's the better method. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:54:40 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:54:40 GMT -5
Ahh Yes we have Kindergarten as well so I'm used to that. The we have Primary School Grades 1-3 (ages 6-9) then Middle school grades 4-6 (Ages 9-12) then Junior High grades 7-9 (Ages 12-15) then High school where you graduate Grades 10-12 (Ages 15-18) after that you go to college or university where you study for your career. College I guess would be similar to your animal course . Those are a lot of schools. I wonder what's the better method. They are just split up but it's not hard to understand and basically you only go to 2 different building from 1-12. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:55:29 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 15:55:29 GMT -5
The rails expand when it's really hot wich is, just like the afore mentioned ice, very dangerous. Something people overlook just to complain. Rails are made of copper, and copper doesn't expand much. I'm pretty sure i saw a TV special about it once. But then again the heat can affect the train driver so maybe that's why they go slower so they can pay better attention. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:56:43 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 15:56:43 GMT -5
Those are a lot of schools. I wonder what's the better method. They are just split up but it's not hard to understand and basically you only go to 2 different building from 1-12. I don't really think there is alot of a difference apart from the years, names and that sort of stuff. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:57:07 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:57:07 GMT -5
Your school system in the NL is very interesting to hear about its quite different from ours |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:57:45 GMT -5
Post by bobafett590 on Aug 18, 2013 15:57:45 GMT -5
I really like snow days! But I usually only have 5cm. So we still have to go to school.  |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:57:45 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:57:45 GMT -5
Rails are made of copper, and copper doesn't expand much. I'm pretty sure i saw a TV special about it once. But then again the heat can affect the train driver so maybe that's why they go slower so they can pay better attention. Well I don't think so, I believe rails were specifically made to not expand in our climate. But maybe I'm wrong about that... Anyway let's get back on the topic. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:58:39 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:58:39 GMT -5
They are just split up but it's not hard to understand and basically you only go to 2 different building from 1-12. I don't really think there is alot of a difference apart from the years, names and that sort of stuff. Seems yours is longer and it does seem kinda different IMO. I'm sure your school system is better since Americas sucks. Canada's system is pretty good though |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:59:00 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:59:00 GMT -5
They are just split up but it's not hard to understand and basically you only go to 2 different building from 1-12. I don't really think there is alot of a difference apart from the years, names and that sort of stuff. I think it's actually quite different. I believe they have another way of selecting subjects, and they also have other subjects. And apparantly they have no "levels" like VWO, HAVO or VMBO. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:59:52 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:59:52 GMT -5
I really like snow days! But I usually only have 5cm. So we still have to go to school. Yeah well a snow day here would be everyday in the winter so we don't have "snow days" we always go to school weather there is 80CM of snow or -60 Degrees Celsius |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:00:40 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 16:00:40 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure i saw a TV special about it once. But then again the heat can affect the train driver so maybe that's why they go slower so they can pay better attention. Well I don't think so, I believe rails were specifically made to not expand in our climate. But maybe I'm wrong about that... Anyway let's get back on the topic. I don't travel by train anyways  I've only done that twice so far. |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:01:11 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 16:01:11 GMT -5
I don't really think there is alot of a difference apart from the years, names and that sort of stuff. I think it's actually quite different. I believe they have another way of selecting subjects, and they also have other subjects. And apparantly they have no "levels" like VWO, HAVO or VMBO. What do you mean by levels? We had Levels like English-20-1 English 20-2 English-30-1 Advanced placement English 30. All that kinda stuff... |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:01:30 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 16:01:30 GMT -5
I really like snow days! But I usually only have 5cm. So we still have to go to school. Yeah well a snow day here would be everyday in the winter so we don't have "snow days" we always go to school weather there is 80CM of snow or -60 Degrees Celsius I actaully wouldn't mind that to be honest. Maybe because we are used to it here. There are very little excuses here not to come to school. |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:01:43 GMT -5
Post by Spidyyr on Aug 18, 2013 16:01:43 GMT -5
We have Elementary (Kindergarten - 5th Grade), Middle School (6-8), and High School (9-12)
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Aug 18, 2013 16:03:14 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 16:03:14 GMT -5
Yeah well a snow day here would be everyday in the winter so we don't have "snow days" we always go to school weather there is 80CM of snow or -60 Degrees Celsius I actaully wouldn't mind that to be honest. Maybe because we are used to it here. There are very little excuses here not to come to school. Well your weather is quite moderate so I don't see why not either maybe your government just likes to give breaks and uses the excuse for weather? |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:04:24 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 16:04:24 GMT -5
I think it's actually quite different. I believe they have another way of selecting subjects, and they also have other subjects. And apparantly they have no "levels" like VWO, HAVO or VMBO. What do you mean by levels? We had Levels like English-20-1 English 20-2 English-30-1 Advanced placement English 30. All that kinda stuff... Yeah... you've lost me already... He means levels in education. Like we have VMBO (wich i do) followed by Havo followed by VWO (wich Pinda does) VMBO is seperated into: - Basic (the lowest) - Kader ( i do that one, yeah i'm pretty low) - Mixed (my ex and most of friends did this one) Havo i really don't know anything of only that it is much harder. VWO is for the smartest and brighest. Most people call them nerds but those are people with black and white prejuidices. Almost all my friends attend this one or higher. |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:05:31 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 16:05:31 GMT -5
I actaully wouldn't mind that to be honest. Maybe because we are used to it here. There are very little excuses here not to come to school. Well your weather is quite moderate so I don't see why not either maybe your government just likes to give breaks and uses the excuse for weather? People just complain too much for little things and you will never hear the end of it. I choose to mostly ignore all the negativity that is around us and look at things in the way you're supposed to look at it. |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:06:17 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 16:06:17 GMT -5
I think it's actually quite different. I believe they have another way of selecting subjects, and they also have other subjects. And apparantly they have no "levels" like VWO, HAVO or VMBO. What do you mean by levels? We had Levels like English-20-1 English 20-2 English-30-1 Advanced placement English 30. All that kinda stuff... I've no idea what you meant by that... here we're split up into several "levels" of education after primary school. VMBO is the lowest out of the three and is split up in several other "levels", but I actually don't know a lot about that myself. HAVO is somewhere in the middle. And VWO in the highest level. And later we have MBO, HBO and the university to go to the university you have to do VWO to go to HBO you need HAVO to go to MBO you need VMBO. |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:08:22 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 16:08:22 GMT -5
What do you mean by levels? We had Levels like English-20-1 English 20-2 English-30-1 Advanced placement English 30. All that kinda stuff... I've no idea what you meant by that... here we're split up into several "levels" of education after primary school. VMBO is the lowest out of the three and is split up in several other "levels", but I actually don't know a lot about that myself. HAVO is somewhere in the middle. And VWO in the highest level. And later we have MBO, HBO and the university to go to the university you have to do VWO to go to HBO you need HAVO to go to MBO you need VMBO. I'm on MBO now, so yeah... pretty, pretty low. |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:13:13 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 16:13:13 GMT -5
I've no idea what you meant by that... here we're split up into several "levels" of education after primary school. VMBO is the lowest out of the three and is split up in several other "levels", but I actually don't know a lot about that myself. HAVO is somewhere in the middle. And VWO in the highest level. And later we have MBO, HBO and the university to go to the university you have to do VWO to go to HBO you need HAVO to go to MBO you need VMBO. I'm on MBO now, so yeah... pretty, pretty low. Not really. MBO is average, or maybe even above average. |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:14:31 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 16:14:31 GMT -5
What do you mean by levels? We had Levels like English-20-1 English 20-2 English-30-1 Advanced placement English 30. All that kinda stuff... Yeah... you've lost me already... He means levels in education. Like we have VMBO (wich i do) followed by Havo followed by VWO (wich Pinda does) VMBO is seperated into: - Basic (the lowest) - Kader ( i do that one, yeah i'm pretty low) - Mixed (my ex and most of friends did this one) Havo i really don't know anything of only that it is much harder. VWO is for the smartest and brighest. Most people call them nerds but those are people with black and white prejuidices. Almost all my friends attend this one or higher. Alright now you lost me...  Here there are 4 mandatory subjects Science, Math, English (Dutch for you I guess) and Social Studies. Once you get to grade 10 you can choose what level of course you want you need certain grades from the previous years to get in the higher ones. So Advanced placement ( The highest for a course and its fast paced I don't like it but you need 70 or above in the subject to get in I had that but didnt want this.) 10-1 (For basic teaching this is the highest you need 65 percent or above I took this one for all subjects) 10-2 ( Mid teaching or for people just passing classes this is 50 or above) 10-3 (Low teaching this is for the slackers or just really stupid it's 40 percent or above I think and honestly it's not hard to pass you don't need to study to pass) That's how all courses are separated I'm going into grade 10 and I'm 15 so I took English 10-1 Social 10-1 Math 10C (Equivlent to -1 but a letter) Science 10-1 I could be in the highest stuff but nah too fast paced. In grade 11 it goes up to 20-x (1,2,3 or advanced) and in grade 12 it's 30-x. You need some every 30- something to pass and graduate. Weather that be 30-1 or 30-3 you still need it too pass lets just saying the people taking the 40 or below course will not get a good job or future. I can get in anything if I work hard with the classes I got and stay with it. Basically our system separates the Slackers from the people that want a education. |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:14:58 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 16:14:58 GMT -5
I'm on MBO now, so yeah... pretty, pretty low. Not really. MBO is average, or maybe even above average. I do MBO Kader. Wich is just a higher form of VMBO Kader wich is the second lowest education above Basic. |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:16:56 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 16:16:56 GMT -5
Yeah... you've lost me already... He means levels in education. Like we have VMBO (wich i do) followed by Havo followed by VWO (wich Pinda does) VMBO is seperated into: - Basic (the lowest) - Kader ( i do that one, yeah i'm pretty low) - Mixed (my ex and most of friends did this one) Havo i really don't know anything of only that it is much harder. VWO is for the smartest and brighest. Most people call them nerds but those are people with black and white prejuidices. Almost all my friends attend this one or higher. Alright now you lost me... Here there are 4 mandatory subjects Science, Math, English (Dutch for you I guess) and Social Studies. Once you get to grade 10 you can choose what level of course you want you need certain grades from the previous years to get in the higher ones. So Advanced placement ( The highest for a course and its fast paced I don't like it but you need 70 or above in the subject to get in I had that but didnt want this.) 10-1 (For basic teaching this is the highest you need 65 percent or above I took this one for all subjects) 10-2 ( Mid teaching or for people just passing classes this is 50 or above) 10-3 (Low teaching this is for the slackers or just really stupid it's 40 percent or above I think and honestly it's not hard to pass you don't need to study to pass) That's how all courses are separated I'm going into grade 10 and I'm 15 so I took English 10-1 Social 10-1 Math 10C (Equivlent to -1 but a letter) Science 10-1 I could be in the highest stuff but nah too fast paced. In grade 11 it goes up to 20-x (1,2,3 or advanced) and in grade 12 it's 30-x. You need some every 30- something to pass and graduate. Weather that be 30-1 or 30-3 you still need it too pass lets just saying the people taking the 40 or below course will not get a good job or future. I can get in anything if I work hard with the classes I got and stay with it. Basically our system separates the Slackers from the people that want a education. I really, really, REALLY appreciate your long explenation but i'm afraid i only got 1/4 of it I'm really lost by now but then again i don't think we will ever truely understand eachother's school workings. We've grown up with it let's say |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:17:12 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 16:17:12 GMT -5
I hope what I said makes sense to you guys. I'm finding it hard to keep up with your system as well.... |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:17:33 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 16:17:33 GMT -5
Not really. MBO is average, or maybe even above average. I do MBO Kader. Wich is just a higher form of VMBO Kader wich is the second lowest education above Basic. I didn't know MBO was divided into levels too... But it doesn't really mean what education you have, as long as you think you'll enjoy the job it will get you. |
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Aug 18, 2013 16:18:31 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 16:18:31 GMT -5
I hope what I said makes sense to you guys. I'm finding it hard to keep up with your system as well.... Well I think I understand how your "levels" work. |
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I've only done that twice so far. 
it’s been quite a while. I’ve been pretty good, how about yourself?
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