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Since school is such a broad topic, there’s so much we didn’t cover in this video. Leave a comment below on what else you would like us to talk about, I would love to make more “discussion” type videos in this series using your comments 💚
Yes!!! Do more videos of school!
Do part twoooooo plssss
Am from mayo 😊 and have American cousins
I would be interested to hear the type of lunch at school
I love your ‘differences’ videos. I’m Irish in Ireland and my boyfriend is American and lives in Indy. We’re always comparing the differences between Ireland and the US 🇮🇪 🇺🇸
The leaving cert is not an exam. It's a shared cultural trauma that lasts years.
Agreed. Still have nightmares about my Leaving Cert 40 years later. 😂
Just had a nightmare about it last night 😱
"Father Ted is not British"! BRILLIANT
Ashtons laugh too!!!
Having lived in Ireland for seven years, I feel I can confidently say SATs/ACTs are literally a walk in the park compared to Leaving Cert. The fact that an Irish students entire education can be boiled down to one set of exams has always baffled me. I can't imagine the stress. SATs were actually quite separate from school and you only had to take them if you wanted to go to college. Plus they only covered math and English. (I think the ACTs also have a science section and that's the major difference, but don't quote me on that.) If anything I think Leaving Cert is a bit more like American "final exams" but we had finals every year of high school, the tests themselves were created by the teacher so they were tailored to exactly what you covered in class, and they only covered a year or even a semesters worth of material, so they were still so much easier than Leaving Cert. I do, however, appreciate the great sacrifice Leaving Cert students give every year to bring us great weather.
Can someone retake their Leaving Cert if they test poorly the first time?
@@spikeybunny6577 yes they can, but they need to wait until the following years graduating class is sitting theirs the next June.
It’s def more stressful. I didn’t study for the SATs, and passed with flying colours. If you passed 4th grade, you’ll do fine on the SATs.
I’ve also taken exams in the English school system, and Incan confirm they were much harder.
If you pass do you automatically get to go to a college?
@@bobkilla430 no. Your test results are converted into a score. The maximum score is 600. That’s if you get A+ in 8 subjects. The marks for your chosen profession in college are based on 1. The subject, I.e medicine and such have higher mark requirements and 2. The number of people applying for the course. I.e the more demand for the course, the higher the marks you need, so the marks change from year to year.
I've lectured maths for 12 years and I'm still terrified of the higher leaving cert maths exam. That thing is unnatural.
It's bullshit the amount of importance put on it just to get some dead 9-5 job. They're telling us to be mindlessly studying useless information for 4 hours daily for Junior Cert at 15. It's a joke.
Its really not that bad but yes its kinda badly thought out
I went into a science / engineering field, so I use all of the honors maths and science I learned for the leaving cert. Most of those in the college course that did not do these fell out within a few weeks of the first year.
Leaving cert stress was all on the Irish and German. I studied that bull like mad for that whole year and I can't remember a bit and have never used any.
Kinda wish I could speak Irish, but don't have the time to learn it and nobody really speaks it.
@@Figures-us9wt i loved ot and actually use a lot of the info from junior cert since and its not like JC does anything
@@chargestone96 yeah, it's painfully demanding/rigorous, but (from an academics point of view) it's not a bad learning system!
Leaving cert truly was one of the most stressful times of my life. More so than college. In a nutshell. You study a minimum of 6 subjects over 2 years and all you hard work comes down to exams at the end of that two years. There is very little continuous assessment or grading averages. All depends on how you do on each exam. You take a 2 or 3 hour exam for each subject (except English which is 2, 2 hour exams) usually with a mix of essay questions and short questions. As Amy said you can take each subject at higher or ordinary level. With a higher level subject you can score a max of 100 points. Ordinary level is a max of 60 points. All the scores are added up from you 6 best subjects and you are given a points total. So if you took 6 higher level subjects and got A1s in each you would get the maximum of 600 points and basically have your pick of colleges.
College courses offer places based on points. For example if you apply for Psychology in UCC and there are 200 places. The top 200 scoring applicants would get offered a place. If the 200th person offered a place scored 530 points then they would say you needed a minimum of 530 points to get into that course. Basically your ability to get into college all comes down to those LC exams. No one looks at extra curricular activities or grade point averages throughout secondary school. It all comes down to you ability to learn off information and deal with the pressure of exams.
So true. The stress isn’t even laughable at this point. I know of girls in my year who did not handle that stress well. You have to be a very mentally strong person to not let the stress and expectations from everyone else get in on you. I can safely say I definitely struggled mentally, like many others during this time, worrying about whether or not I’d be good enough in life, if I couldn’t do well in the leaving cert.
So is the leaving cert like the British GCSE's?
@@kittyowlblu No, it's the equivalent of A levels. The junior cert was like the GCSE's.
I am 55. To this day if I am stressed I have a dream that I am doing the leaving cert maths exam.
In New York State in the early 80s you could receive just a high school diploma after completing the required credits at your School with all passing grades. The diploma could include With honors if you excelled. Additionally there was the state Regents exams that were three hour examinations in specific subject areas. If you scored high enough across all those subjects you would receive a "Regents" diploma. Basically used for college bound students.
The Leaving cert is the worst exam you'll ever sit in your life, it's such a stressful time
How did I just watch a 26 minute video and I didn’t get to see his reaction to finding out that 4th year is a completely optional year where you don’t do regular work at all!?!?
leaving cert literally the most stressful thing i've done and I didn't do it cuz of covid lol
Amy, this video is class and absolutely hilarious 😂 uniforms were literally my least favourite part about all part of schools 😂
Ok, old irish guy, here -61. When I started school at 3 and half, i'm sure it was called infants. I don't think there was kindergarten then, but there are places that use the word now. I think infants was co-ed. I remember Mrs Kenna asked me what girl I liked, and I said Mary Callinan. ☺ Rest seems the same ie first class, second class etc. Then first, year, second, 3rd year, but for some reason no fourth year. Then it went 5th and 6th.
I love these videos,so interesting and informative. And I like the way you talk to each other
Y’all are just too cute! I learn so much from your videos while being entertained at the same time. I appreciate all the work you put into these. Go raibh maith agat!❤️🍀
I love when worlds collide like this, thanks TH-cam algorithm! I am familiar with your husband through Trilogy Media, binged through his stuff a couple of years ago and really enjoyed what he is doing on a very different topic. You guys have great chemistry, keep it up.
Part 2 please ! ❤️
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Hi hi! I did my Leaving Cert in 2006, when I was in primary school we still had the horror story nuns, that started to get phased out/cracked down around 2000-2002. I could write a novel about the terror of nuns. My sister is around your age, I’m glad she got the nice nuns.
Leaving cert - there is nothing more stressful. 7 subjects, a two or two and a half hour paper on each subject, absolute nightmare!
If you are doing a part 2 and talking about the Leaving cert you got to mention the mocks. Love the video!
Yes thank you!
Great video! Can’t wait for part two. I have had a chance to compare US (Texas) middle and high school over the years. I was in 7th grade in 1970 when they first allowed pantsuits for girls (no jeans), and in 2021-22 I will begin my 20th year teaching (high school English). Very different dress codes and social differences. It’s been fun to be a part of it all. I love hearing about school in other county and cultures. Thank you! Love you both.
This is extremely well done Thank you for your classy comments on the sisters Not the usual trendy” nun bashing”
You need to do a full explanation of the Leaving Cert!
This was such a fun video I’m not a huge fan of school but I did enjoy learning how school is in Ireland keep up the great work Amy and I can’t wait to the next video 💚
Thanks so much Brady! 💚
@@AmyMcDonaghGuitar np Amy 💚
How did u get that emoji?
My son did SATs at the same time as doing 4 A levels (he was applying to an US University so needed to have SATs scores). He found them much easier than the UK exams - particularly as so many questions had multiple choice answers.
awesome video in billions of ways
I always wondered about the American system. As a teacher in Ireland it is interesting to me. Thanks folks.
We called junior infants and senior infants, wee dotes and big dotes 😄 It was also a mixed boys and girls school too. There are many mixed schools in Ireland.
We called both junior and senior infants... "infants"
Great video keep them coming 🥰
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If you're doing a St. Patrick's Day episode. Don't forget to add that it's Paddy and not Patty!
Brilliant video ❤️🍀
Loved It! A Video Idea----Maybe Driving Differences And Experiences?!
Yes another good subject that's very different between the 2 countries!
Love the channel keep it up 👍
Is the Leaving Cert hard? YES! Between study and extra grinds in the evenings, I am happy it's long in my past. Definitely more or less the same experiences in Athlone. I went to an all-boys national/primary school but chose a mixed secondary school for the social aspect. At secondary school, the fourth year wasn't mandatory. It was known as the ''transition year'' where people would do work experience and things like that. We did have a good balance of male and female teachers there in contrast to the national/primary school where there it was about 80/20 (%) female to male teachers. Around the 3rd year, the school came out with the rule that female students were allowed to wear pants. Crazy to think that had to become a rule but there we are. I do have good memories of school in Ireland though and made some great lifelong friends there. I agree with you both that if we went back to school as we are now we'd be more confident but that comes down to now having real-life experience.
I had so many mental breakdowns during the leaving cert. It wasn’t uncommon to feel suicidal for some people during that time, unfortunately. I actually when I went on French exchange, and with their system being a year less than ours, they were like three weeks away from their “leaving cert” and they were like so chill. Like they could actually afford to have a social life and have us around. It made me so mad that other countries had this thing that we were told and taught was life and death, so easy and that we had to go through this.. anyways yeah lol leaving cert is the biggest pile of shit. ✌️
In Ireland Playschool starts at age 3yrs it's not compulsory but advised. Then starts Primary School at age 4yrs in Junior Infants, followed by Senior Infants, then 1st to 6th Class by age 12. In Secondary School (High School) you generally do 6 years, in your third year you have a state exam called the Junior Cert and three years later you have the Leaving Cert. Two very stressful exams.
I swear to god your uniform is absolutely identical to the one I wore. If it turns out you went to the same school as me that would be amazing, only just discovered your channel 😁
Great stuff. The American guy is goofy but charming. Good chemistry between the two of you.
YOU SHOULD DO A VIDEO WHERE YOU BOTH DO EACH OTHERS EXAM.
Love watching you both. Amy you remind me of one of my daughters she did her leaving in 2011 went to UCD for music and is a music teacher in Dubai. Shes married now living in Dubai. You both remind me of her and husband. They’d love to see this........”the side fringe” lol great videos 💖💙
Some school districts also split high school into two parts, with 9 and 10 in one school (a mid-high) versus 11 and 12 in another (high school).
I'm a 6th year right now and I study 1.5 - 2.5 hours a night and six hours on a Saturday, homework excluded lol
Best of luck Sally! ❤️
There is also foundation level lol I did that for Irish and the tester actually mimed some of the answers for the oral test lol
I dont know if it was there when you were in school but now theres a 'Transition Year' between jc and lc cycles. In some schools its mandatory but in most its optional. It's kind of a year out where you focus less on exams and more on learning alternative subjects (like film or another language) and you go on lots of trips and do fun stuff
She sat her leaving cert in 2011, so yes 4th year aka transition year was definitely there, whether she took that year or not, she didnt say. I sat my leaving cert in 2004 and i also did transition year
Not every school offers TY though and there are limited places unfortunately
Great craic! Americans are much different... I love watching you two
It's strange how now in Ireland I've never heard the word "Play school" Since we always call it "Early start"
You guys are the loveliest couple ever! You videos are a bliss!
Fun video! Speaking to Ashton's experience, I remember taking the ACT in high school; I actually took it twice since the first time I took it I didn't study at all and was hung over from a party the night before. 🙃The second time I took it, I still didn't study, but at least I wasn't hung over. 😏
dude my high school started at 7:15 am. not always bright but definitely early
Awk Ashton, it’s yourself! I’ve seen some of your scam hunter videos. I like you even more now that I know you’re married to an Irish girl.
Edit: so delighted was I to see a familiar TH-cam face, I didn’t acknowledge Amy. Thanks for posting a very entertaining conversation. All the best to both of you.
Where I lived, most of the private colleges wanted the SAT test and the state university system asked for the ACT test. In general, the ACT test was designed to measure what you have learned in your schooling that far, and the SAT test was designed more to measure to measure ones facility in verbal facility and math facility, but the SAT was not as focused on learning ability as an IQ test.
*Kids 10th Birthday
Adults: leaving cert now in 8 years!
Is there a video on how you two met? I’ve watched every single one of your videos together and I absolutely adore you! I’m so interested in how you came to be from overseas lol.
i feel like american school is more focused on the social aspect, sports etc.
irish schooling is just focused on the leaving cert full stop
You watch to much American tv...
@@davidcooley275 I haven’t watched tv in about 5 years. my opinion is mostly based on my friend who moved to america when he was 15 and what i read and see from american kids online.
school sports are treated like professional there. full crowds turn up for every game of every sport and a stadium announcer fucking does an individual walkout for each player 😭 my school football team reached the all ireland semi final and there were only about 50 people watching us lmao.
and the schooling is miles easier. they get multiple choice questions and they leave school with the same standard of education as a 15/16 year old irish person does.
@@BenCreaven at 16 you can get what's called a ged, basically and seen by employers as a high school degree. Sports are a huge thing in highschools. Even though I played alot of sports in hs I didn't realize it until I came back from my university and I was just in a small town in california. We still had boosters, fundraisers etc. A big highschool in texas and it's on a whole other level.
@@BenCreaven That's one experience though. I was in all AP classes in high school, and while sports and extracurriculars were a big deal, AP especially expected to be the best at not only in class, but also whatever extracurricular they were involved in. Stress level was kind of high at my high school, but that's my experience.
@@bobkilla430 yo where you from?
You guys are brilliant. I love your chemistry. Guím sonas oraibh go deo
Aww you guys are adorable! My favorite couple on TH-cam! Thank you for always giving me a reason to smile Amy & Ash! :)
Basically in a nutshell it's the end of your formal education that is mandatory and where you'll sit in a bunch of exams that will get you into college.
It's a series of 8/9 2-3 hour long exams on 8 subjects. Math Irish and English are mandatory and the others are whatever you chose to study. At the end the tests are sent off, all scores are turned into points the max you can get is 625, you submit your results when applying for college and hope you have a high enough score to get in as its whoever has the higher scores get priority
Ireland has two education symptoms (GCSE in the North & Leaving cert. in the South), with those who are good at sport being picked for school teams. there's teachers who live on one side of the border & work in a school on the other side of border. Catholic schools in the North opting out of state schools & Protestant schools in the South opting out of the state schools.
I WENT TO SCHOOL IN IL. FROM PRESCHOOL THROUGH 8TH GRADE IN ONE SCHOOL, BUT 6TH, 7TH & 8TH GRADES WERE ON ONE SIDE OF THE SCHOOL, FROM PRESCHOOL TO 5TH!!! PLUS, STARTING IN 1ST GOING THROUGH 8TH, WE WOULD CHANGE CLASSES FOR DIFFERENT SUBJECTS!!! I REALLY ENJOYED WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS!!!
I did the Leaving Cert in 2007 in the biggest school in Ireland and didn't find it stressful at all. Anyone trying really hard to get certain points for a certain college course would find it stressful but there were lots of people in school with me who didn't care so they weren't as stressed about it. The high earners didn't seem too stressed either, it just seemed to come natural to them.
I took my high school exams 20 years ago now in the UK. Lots of subjects had different levels of exam literally called “higher” or “lower” depending on if the teachers thought you were dim or clever!
Very stressful exam for teenagers as a parent watching my 5 kids do it stress headaches no sleeping, sick, it’s not worth it putting kids through that there must be an easier way.
Elementary for me was K-6th, Jr High 7-9th, high school 10-12th. But that district (LAUSD) has changed that years ago.
I have a friend that lives in Ireland and I was so shocked when she told me that 4th year (sophomore year for me) is optional since it’s a transitional year
Where I grew up, there was only grammar school and high school, grammar school until eighth grade.
MAKE A PART TWO
As a leaving cert student currently I need you to please make a video that fully walks through the sheer fucking lunacy that is the leaving cert. I need to know that I'm not insane in thinking that this exam is insane.
I did my leaving cert 41 years ago. It was lunacy then as well. Best of luck. I hope you sail through it.
@@Robbie63 Well, with the year that's in it I'm not even sure if the results are even gonna mean anything but hey-ho.
Best of luck with your exams Stephen, you can do it ❤️
I did the Leaving Cert in 1974 with 9 honours subjects and managed to get honours in all of them. Two days later I started doing the Matriculation exam. You could choose your best performance to calculate points for university entrance. That was certainly the most intense exam month of my life. I was a swot in school and had no social life.
I’m a dual citizen and went to primary in both the states and England. One thing I noticed was my American schooling was always behind compared to the English schools. One thing that was harder for me when I was a tween it was really hard since I was on the birthday cusp. So I was always the youngest.
Another thing is I wish American schools did more proper uniforms instead of only being allowed to wear certain colours.
The most important difference I think is the hot dinners. We didn’t have to pay for them in England, we got 2-3, and they were proper meals.
Going off what y’all said- I think the younger bairns should switch schedules with the teens. It’s easier to get littles up early, and let the teens sleep in. My Ma would always complain to the school district.
I would love to hear more of your school experiences . I had a weird experience lent to a private kindergarten, grade 1 thru the first half of 4 I went to a catholic school then transferred to public school at the request of the nuns . and all through school I felt like I was too young to be with the rest of the clSs
Schools in UK a little different but we had uniforms for every school. We could wear trousers in secondary school. I left school in 1995. Exams little different. It's so school how we all had different experiences. I would not want to do school again. Friends were best part. Great video
Thanks Emma! Yes I love hearing everyone's different stories ❤️
Yes it's cool how different things are from one country to another. I am going to watch some more of your videos in a bit. 😀❤
In Germany the length of the finishing exams depends on the subject: in German you sit in there for 8 hours writing essays, interpreting poems or stuff and answering questions as well as doing grammar stuff. In other subjects you may be in there for 4 hours. It might sound like a lot but a regular schoolday in Germany is about 6 hours long.
I think that’s better though too, with the leaving cert you can know literally everything but still do badly if you run out of time/are a slow writer.
i did the leaving cert in 2002 and i still have nightmares to this day. i never want to go through that again.
Part 2!
I'm so old we called 7th and 8th grade jr high. "Middle school" term came much later
Elementary school for me was kindergarten through 4th grade, middle school was 5th-8th.
Also, did not study for the SATs AT ALL.
SATs were not technically an exam to study for as there is no passing or failing. But there are exam prep books & courses (outside of regular school) that more motivated students might utilize.
@@chrisk5651 yes, that’s more what I meant. I didn’t attempt to prep for them in any way
In Australia school is
Kindly
Pre primary
Primary school (grade 2 to 6)
High school (7 to 12 unless you go to full time tafe in year 10 or 11)
Tafe or uni as higher education
As a current LC it's fucking torture, tests in every subject nearly every week, ment to be constantly studying instead I'm crying and things are even more messed up now because of Corona. Oral exams are this weekend and teachers are hunting us down for practice runs. Projects are a mess, and every test and piece of homework completed must be a high standard as it could go towards accredited grades
I am also a current 6th year student, I hope your orals went well, just know that you are not alone in this because I have had many breakdowns. These days whenever I try to focus on something all the other things that I still have to cover from every subject flood into my mind and cause me to not do anything at all. the build up is horrible but just keep thinking about the wonderful changes we’ve been given in the exams (if you are doing the exams now that we have accredited grades) because that’s what is pulling me through this torture hahaha and yes I agree the tests that we have every week are so much pressure now because of accredited grades, it’s all very messy but we just gotta take it one step at a time ❤️
You poor thing. I hope you did ok. Even tho it doesn't seem like it now there is life after the leaving cert. I failed pass maths back in 1984. I walked into the hall sat down, looked at the paper and couldn't understand a word. I got an NG. Oh the stress. Since then I've gone on to do several different courses in Administration, accountancy, IT and have gotten a diploma in materials management. I worked while attending night classes. The good thing about now days is there are so many options available. No one is stuck in the one job for a lifetime. Anyone can retrain and find the job to suit them. I wish you good luck and hope you do well in life.
I think, and am in no way certain because most of my exposure to American schools is through media, that the easiest difference to point out between Leaving Cert and any equivalent US exam, is that it's worth all the marbles. I believe you get credits towards college throughout school, or exams worth your final grade or what have you. That isn't the case here. 100% of your grade comes from your Leaving Cert (with exceptions for things like art/woodwork where that's not really feasible).
Your results from the leaving cert would then be out of 600. To get 600 you have to get 100% on your 6 exams. (if you do more than 6 this is taken from your best 6) Most years there are kids in the newspaper who got 600 because it's a rare thing. To get into college you have to get above a certain threshold for different courses, generally. With different subjects being required depending on your career path. As in you might need to have passed higher level biology to get into medical school or what have you.
That's really only a barebones explanation mind you, and I probably got something wrong because it's been a while since I was in school
4th year is also known as transition year now where you go on a lot of trips and get work expirence then go to fish and start studying again
Noooooo, not 5:00 AM. More like 8:15 and earlier as you go through the levels. When I was in high school, we started at 7:05. We did end somewhere in the 2o’clock hour, sometimes 3:00.
Interesting discussion. During my time in school, those middle years had the public schools changing the setup some. Initially, Elementary was 1st through 5th. 6th through 8th was Jr. High School and 9th through 12th was High school. Then it changed. Jr High became Middle school and was 6th through 9th. High school or Sr. High school was 10th through 12th.
However, I went to a Catholic Primary and Highschool. The Primary was from 3rd to 8th(I went to public elementary school for a while before I went to Catholic Primary school). And there was mandatory uniforms. The girls wore a white blouse, with blue and black plaid skirt. Boys wore white shirt and black or dark blue pants, that were NOT jeans. High school had no uniforms, but jeans and t shirts were not allowed. My Freshman year, my highschool was boys only. There were also two girls schools. My sophomore year we went co-ed, as the girls' schools closed.
There were nuns and priests teaching, as well as lay teachers. The nuns were a mix of pre Vatican II and post Vatican II, as far as habits....mostly based on age.
Especially at the beginning. When you were talking aboutyour Irish experience it stopped.
I love learning of school in other countries I remember for me watching American school in movies in Hungary and when I moved to the USA and actually starting American School I was so scared and excited at the same time lol I was that one quiet kid who never said a word in school but had no problem with finding friends 😂
I always thought that the irish schools were similar to us mainland England peeps, sooo play school, then primary school reception class, then yr1,2, &3, middle school yr 4 to 7, then high school yr 8 -11
KatG ESMT Why would the republic of ireland have a similar to the UK 100 years after gaining independence from the UK.What do you think he just kept the same education system for 100 years without changing it to fit our needs.In fact the founding fathers made a point of making the education system different from the british one.Mainland england do you have any idea how offensive that is ireland is not a little island of your coast .
My highschool alloud basically any clothing. Short skirts and spaghetti straps anything really
4th year is optional depending on schools Ireland too
We use to call pre-school by the name nursery school. Elementary school is our primary & our secondary is 7-12 (high school plus some middle school). My dad used to call elementary school by the name grade school. Some people called middle school by the name junior high. We didn’t have a junior high, we just had a a middle school than high school. But in university I knew someone who had both a middle school and junior high & then went to high school.
done the leaving cert through covid so im buzzin
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@@leonardmcdermott7703 sound Leonard
I spent 13 years in all girl schools, we had 1 male teacher towards the end. Poor guy. Then was the only girl in my college class 😬. (1981)
I had to do 9 subjects for my leaving despite only 6 counting. We also called it low babies and high babies.
Is it called fourth year these days? It was called Transition Year back when I was in school. I was taught by nuns in both primary and secondary, what I can say about them is that they were pretty much the same as any of the other teachers. They did wear the habit and typical pinafore style dresses, though our principal in secondary was a nun who wore the same colours but no habit.
Something Amy said made me think of another thing that’s different between Irish and American: Fringe. We call them bangs. lol
I got lucky with the lockdown for the leaving cert
I was 16 when i done my leaving cert, which was young but i never let it bother me i would see people get stressed out about and could never understand why they would let it stress them, and secondary school was 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th there was no 6th
My years were 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 LOL
its when I "did" my leaving cert not when I "done" my leaving cert
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It also shows the differant between Northren Ireland & Ireland
Northren Ireland was
Play School
Primary School
P1-P7 in P7 we sat the 11+to find out if we went to the integrated or Secondary School
Secondary School
Form 1 - Form 6. Then you sat GCSEs
Unless you went to a Special Needs School you stayed at the same school from P1-Form 6 & you didn’t sit the 11+ or GCSEs.
My school was full of male & female teachers & we had to wear a uniform.
School hours was 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
The leaving cert is Cinema to the GCSEs in Northren Ireland.
Leaving was great but my last year was like a summer camp
I was moved from my Primary School in P6 to a special Needs School
I enjoyed my time at school & meet a lot of good people but I wouldn’t go back.
SATs & ACTs are general university entrance exams. My dad had said that he had to take different entrance exams for each college. They are not about graduating high school.
I went to all girls primary school and a mixed secondary school I loved the mixed school and we where one of the first girls to be able to wear pants and it was the only mixed secondary in our area 😁😁😁
The school we went to (in Illinois) and most of the schools in our area, it was K * 8th grade, we didn't have a separate "middle school". It was also a catholic school, it was co-ed. I'm in my mid 50s now, I don't remember what our nuns wore at that point. I don't think they wore full habits anymore, but they did wear very conservative clothes and I think they still wore whatever the head covering is called from the habit. Most of our teachers were not nuns though, there were only a couple who were. We did not have uniforms in grade school but we did in our catholic high school.
Low babies and high babies. I'm an 80's baby. That's what we called it.
I still have nightmares of the leaving cert.
That's so unnatural. Why do Irish schools do that to kids? Thats terrible. Sounds like school is more about the test than actually learning. Not good.
My school was elementary was pre k-6
High school was 7-12.
Amy, the basic structure is the same in all American schools. The only differences are how the grades are divided up in schools. Your husband is right that schools are governed by the states and each local district can design the schools to match their community’s preferences. I’m in California. I first went to school in a city where elementary school ended at 4th grade, middle school was 5th through 8th and high school was 9th through 12th. I have worked for a district that had elementary ending at 5th grade with middle school starting at 6th and high school at 9th. Now, I’m a teacher in a district where elementary school ends at 6th grade, middle school is only 7th and 8th.
I agree everyone is different not all kids are academic and enjoy The Arts 🎭 like 3/5 kids