With all the discussion we had in class this term about the proper way to educate students for the real world v the academic world, I kept coming back to how the German education system is run. Here is the best chart I could find of it.
The break from Elementary School and the four following schools is a division of the students. Their grades up to that point decide on where the students will go for secondary education. If you follow the columns to the top you will see that in order to make it to university you must be in either Gymnasium or Gesamptschule. Those that end in Hauptschule take classes that are focused more on apprenticeship (i.e. baker, auto repairman). This is a very interesting approach and it works for Germany, but my question is do we want something like this in the US to better prepare the students for the 'real world'? Should we just take aspects of it? or nothing at all?
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