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[Helgoland]

In my universe, "I love you" is a vow. It's swearing by saying.

It's a cultural thing, I believe - Americans make much more fuzz about that.

What, really? Maybe it's our Germanic roots. Where are you from, Helgoland?

Germany... It's an observation that stems mostly from sitcoms, though. And from the fact that I've never heard anyone around here make a big deal out of it.

[Vector]

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[Orange Wizard]

I'm sitting months behind on schoolwork, and I've just realised I'm about to fail the last year of highschool. For the second time.

[Frumple]

Being someone with family that works with folks in your situation, have you considered/checked out the local adult school (equivalent) situation in your area? At least here in the states, they sometimes allow for dropping over and still completing the high school diploma in a potentially more suitable environment.

I actually did just that for my last semester or so. Admittedly somewhat lucky in that my parent was one of the main teachers for the local one, but...

[Orange Wizard]

That kind of thing is available, and it's pretty much my only option at this point as far as I can tell. Well, it's either that, or repeating highschool ad infinitum...

[Frumple]

Well... I can't say if my experience was representative, or if the school I attended wasn't abnormally good, but my experience with it was very positive. Definitely the best bit of the high school period I experienced. More focused, considerably more flexible schedule, much better actual environment (less students, more comfortable classroom, etc. Admittedly, you've got the chance some of them are more disruptive than normal, but if yours is anything like mine was, the teachers have considerably more leeway in dealing with problem students)... all sorts of good things. I'd definitely say look into it, see what the local school(s) reputation is like and what you'd have to do to get in and get through.

[Skyrunner]

People in the West think a 20~30 class size is too much? O_o

[Tiruin]

People in the West think a 20~30 class size is too much? O_o

Even in the East, a class size of 30+ is technically 'too much' [as noted in the principles of teaching].
But we don't make much of a deal out of it... and we are lacking in teachers (or in the least, classrooms)

[Haspen]

Classes in Poland usually have 20-25 students, and I was once in class with 32 v:

[hops]

A rule of thumb is that the smaller the class size, the better.

[scrdest]

Classes in Poland usually have 20-25 students, and I was once in class with 32 v:

On the other hand, I've had a weird school, and, in the first grade, we had, IIRC, seven people. It grew over time, but still.

[Graknorke]

The standard maximum here is 30students in a class, but it frequently goes over. I'm not entirely sure how having more teachers per student would improve education though.

[Arx]

The teacher can come closer to giving each student a personalised lesson, and has more time to help each individual. This is true in both theory and practice.

[Frumple]

... yeah. When you've got a class of 20+ and an hour, there's only so much a teacher can do, and it's incredibly easy for some or many of the students to just get... left behind. From what I can remember hearing of mi madre picking info up, studies at the time were showing quality of education starts dropping somewhere in the early twenties, and gets progressively worse as class size increases.

In contrast, when there's, say, ten students in the room at any one time, and they're there for 2-3 hours in one go (and then, y'know, maybe go home for lunch or go chill at the library for an hour or something then come back), there's considerably more options available to a teacher in regards to... everything, really. When the student can just stop for 10-15 minutes, maybe read, listen to music, browse the net or go for a walk or something without completely borking up the teacher's jive, things are just... better. And that gets easier to do the smaller the class, from what I've seen -- since instruction is more personalized, less people are inconvenienced if the teacher stops to catch someone back up or whatev'. And so the teacher actually can. They've got time for it, unlike with a normal class.

In the case of the particular school I went to, it was also very easy to, y'know, focus. One day on one subject, instead of six subjects in one day with interspersed interruptions and a great deal of distractions. Stuff like that. It was smaller than many adult schools, even the others in the local area, but from what I picked up you got (could get, anyway) similar deals in the larger local ones and even larger urban ones. It was just very different from high school, and much more pleasing to my, at least, sensibilities.

[hops]

I would never be able to study a single subject for one day. I get bored if I had to study the same topic for over an hour.