re: Kid's homework is fricking ridiculous

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There is an emphasis placed on academic level. You have to take a test to advance in high school on the college track. If you don't score high enough you go to a type of trade school.
The US could take a page from this. Focus on what students do best or want to do rather than forcing students who can't or don't want to be on a college track.

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Been saying this for years. Germany's school system is incredible. If you're very smart, you continue to move on to college and pursue technically advanced degrees. If you're not (and why the frick can't we acknowledge that not everyone is smart just like not everyone can play college sports), then you start learning your skilled trade in high school.

Germany's incredible manufacturing is a direct result of how skilled their workforce is. Ours sucks ballsack but they all have cute Art History degrees so yea, they're "smart".