>>9809620>it's another "europeans lie about their educational system" episodeWhere does he lie, exactly? All he says is that he would rather take the European education, and I don't think that is false.
>Don't you guys have like an extra year of high school or something?Dunno, relative to what? It varies with high school level.
>and/or have retard schools and only the smart kids get the college prep education?Where I live (NL), there are different levels of high school that prepare a student for different levels of tertiary education, yes. Someone who wants to become a hairdresser needs less tertiary education than someone who wants to become a doctor, and also needs less high school education to prepare for that.
>I remember hearing germany your career school is decided for you at an early age, I was dumb as a kid but I barely managed to test out of high school and now i'm in the top 0.1% of my major,because in America we're free to make our own livesHere in NL, high school level is initially decided by both student and teachers at the end of primary school / in the early years of high school, based on grades, teacher assessment, and student motivation. But there are many ways of changing levels later, in either direction, if it turns out the initial decision was not right for the student. It happens to maybe 5-10% of students, and I personally knew two people who started in high school on a fairly low level, and then got bumped all the way up later. One was a traditional monster kid in primary school that quickly showed his real potential once he had grown up a bit; the other suffered from side effects of a medical treatment on a young age that held him back, and once that was resolved around age 17 he could manage his true intellectual level, tested out of the shitty situation he found himself in, and moved on to where he really belonged.
