AmerLisa

All that education......deary, deary me.

cindyabs

and that dear friends, is why I'm a travel agent.

AmerLisa

I don't think they do specific geography classes here (that I know of, and education can be different in different regions) so perhaps your friend was looking for something that was similar from the UK.

cindyabs

My son had World Geography twice, once in DODDs school in NL and then here the next year.

AmerLisa

Imagine that! And here I thought we were only qualified to dig ditches and sit on our porches with our animals...... Can't imagine that there are people actually qualified to be doctors and such......

cindyabs

Well I wanted to be a pirate and if I couldn't do that I wanted to be a lumberjack.

britvic

She's a Teacher over here as well, they are going back home in June, she wants her kids to do there A'levels.

AmerLisa

AmerLisa

I don't know what to say except that it can be very different to the UK. That doesn't necessarily mean its bad or good between the two. I made a mistake moving my older daughter to the UK when I did because she had just started high school here and over there the kids were sitting their GCSE's at or near her age. I certainly wouldn't try and move an older child into either school system unless there was some kind of backup plan.

britvic

But didn't your older Daughter decide to stay there ? I'm not saying it's bad over here either, just different, at the end of the day it's up to any of us what we want for our Children.

Haggerwood

Yeah ORIGINALLY but the Normans came from France to England since we are pretty multicultural in Europe so when they displaced other ruling classes who were also from Viking origins we saw it as England versus France since all the cultures had been assimilated. Also I know you're no spring chicken so maybe education has gone downhill here since your day but I have a work colleague who studied history as her major at University of Florida and recently she revealed that she had always thought tha Spain was part of England. This was because in history she learnt that Spain discovered America and then it was ruled by England so she filled in the blanks that your education system missed.

Haggerwood

Actually I already left Alabama and live in Florida where people refer to "The black school,college and nightclub as well." That being said Alabama is just as much a part of the US as anywhere else. I am sure if I go to Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, Texas or Iowa I will find things to be much the same. You can't have an OP on here stating that only London is multicultural in the UK but the whole US is and then proceed to exclude whole US states from the debate that everybody knows to be backward.

cindyabs

Assimilated is a diplomatic term for what occured-

My son was a history major and thankfully he is better informed ,especially since he now wants to teach history.

Tracym

I wish I was clever enough to have done that on purpose. Worked out well though

Haggerwood

The first few sentances of this don't even make any sense. I will try to answer what I think your were trying to say though. My point is that the language of "English" has developed with lots of influences from Latin, German, French, Celtic etc down the years all the way back to the first folks who lived there. By comparison if your country is "mulitcultural" then the equivalent would be if you had a language today called "American" which had its roots in Native American dialects with strong influences from the Spanish (Who since you don't know did get here BEFORE the Enlgish crossed the Atlantic) and English and French etc. Anyway only respond to this if you have worked out what the discussion is about.