Hey, this is JJ Dowling from Harvard, MA in the U.S. and for a project our world geography class had to make a blog about something to do with Oceania so that is why so many U.S. kids are making blogs. For my blog i wanted to talk about achool because i am instersted in how different country's schools work compaired to the U.S. I hope people will reply and tell me how schools are like in Australia.

In the U.S. we have grades k-12 which is kindergarten then 1st, 2nd and so on until 12th. Kindergarten is to get the young children use to school. They only go to school for half a day which is around three hours. 1st through 4th grades we have one teacher and around 25 on avg. of students in a class. After 4th grade there are more teachers one for every subject, so depending on how many classes you have you'll have so many teachers. School time will be like 8:45 to 3:20 and the time veries for different schools.

Once in high school which is 9th through 12th grade the grades you get start to count to matter for colleges. The school time is early at 7:45 to 2:20. We have science fairs where people can win money for good projects. When i entered i did a project about electromagnetic trains so that trains would not produce any harmful gases, sorry to say i didn't win anything. My school is very small compaired to some schools. We have about 100 in each grade, but some school can have around 1000 students in each grade. We have to take set class like maths, english's, sciences, histories, and gym. We also have studies, band, chorus, photography, arts, and many more. During high school we have to have so many community service hours to pass high school, i think it is 40 hours. Also we need so many credits to pass high school so each class is a credit and in my school you need 22 credits to pass.

People say that the U.S. is falling be hind with their education. "American schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Kids spend much of the day as their great-grandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out of date by the time they are printed," written by CLAUDIA WALLIS, SONJA STEPTOE. I don't know why people think schools are getting bad.

How different is school in Australia? Do people in Australia think that kids aren't doing well in schools?