Thank you Lucien. Your explanation is very clear. Do teachers move students up into a higher level class if they feel they have the maturity and ability to do higher level work?
Somehow, I can see Amalia as the type of child who loves going to school, not only for the learning but for the socializing.
I read there are Public, Special and Private schools in the Netherlands.Special schools are the ones based on a specific religion. Since Amalia is the future Queen, why didn't Máxima and Williem choose a lutheran school for their daughter?
Schools start here in august/september too,depending on the part of the country you live in as holidays have been divided in North,Middle and South with a difference of 1 to two weeks,to avoid traffic jams and such if all would go at the same time.
But,like in Amalia's case,as soon as children reach the age of four,regardless the time of year,they start attending in what we call here group 1,a mixture of kindergarten and elimentary education.Hope the explanation is clear enough?
i can understand your point of view, specially if you have such a good public schools in Holland, why to send it to private?
in Argentina like in the US is better to go to private school, is where you can have a good education,it is not a matter of snobism, it is a matter to learn and be educated
I wouldn't be surprised if the school has undergone some hidden prepartions for her arrival. Perhaps the room has a way to quietly alert security if there is an issue. I'm sure that the principal and staff have been briefed on what to do should a security concern arise.On the schools front in the UK and Ireland, you go to school at 5. When I was a child it was 4, but for some unknown reason (it isn't law) it kind of transgressed to being around 5 (at least where I live). You generally go to 'play school' for a few mornings, each week though from the age of 2. I don't know if Kindergarden is the same, it is always such an American concept here, even though it obviously derives from Germany. In Ireland you got to secondary school at 12, in the UK at 11. In the UK, your general education finishes at 16, and you then either leave school, or go on to college/sixth form and do you’re A levels (3 or 4 subjects). At 18 (or 19 if you take a gap year), if you did your A levels, you go to University, which lasts 3 years. In Ireland you can leave school at 16, but your general education isn’t completed until you’re eighteen.
As for Amalia and her bodyguards. My brother went to school, for a few years, with the son of an ambassador, and he had a bodyguard (the ambassador represented a volatile country, but I can't remember where right now). Apparently no one knew the bodyguard was really there (he never was in the classroom). The biggest deal was the ‘official car’ that used to pick the son up. The other children in the class, absolutely loved getting invited back to the son's house, because they got to ride in his car (shallow, but hey that’s kids.).
I don’t know what the security is like, in general, for the DRF, but I am sure her bodyguards will probably just patrol the grounds of her school etc,
ashelen said:in the publicschool you were missing too many days of school because of teacher's strike!
It differs extremely indeed.The eldest children of my brother,12 and 11 respectively,are in 3rd grade and 2nd grade gymnasium in München,the youngest,9,skipped a class and will follow next year.Here in The Netherlands that wouldn't be the case untill the 12th year of age.I think even within germany rules are different,and Bavaria stands out as having a very strict and extraordinary high level of education,would be dubbed "oldfashioned and too strict" here,but it does work wonders for the children and their future chances,imho.
I also find it very interesting that Amalia is going to attend a public school, and not some posh-exclusive school. But I am wondering how the relationship between the little Princess and her schoolmates could develop.
I believe Maxima Zorriegueta is a product - at least at the university level - of the public education.
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