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| Well ab fab, perhaps you could tell us why you think that the information I gave is “totally incorrect”??? I've heard different about the way the education system works here. I'm sure it depends on the school and the teachers but primary and secondary schools don’t stick to a national curriculum, instead they have guidelines as to what they should teach. Whereas in the UK children will do their Key stages then move onto GCSEs and A-levels, in France children do the “brevet” then move on to the French “BAC”. In Switzerland??? I personally haven’t been to a Swiss school so I can only tell you what I’ve read and heard but if you could tell me why you think the information I’ve given is totally incorrect, would be great to hear from you…
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Having worked in a university in the UK where I interviewed students who had come out of school having done their Key Stages, GCSEs, A Levels and all the rest of it I used to despair at the level of literacy - basic literacy such as being able to spell the name of the town that they lived in - complete inability to recognise what the purpose was of an apostrophe or any punctuation for that matter. Not only did they struggle with the English language the thought that there could be a language other than English was alien to them. I worked for a real university too and not just a polytechnic in drag. My friend's children are in a Swiss school and every child speaks German, English, Swiss German and French with varying degrees of competence and that's something that you don't find as a matter of course in the UK.