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Anonymous asked: How did the US end up with Bachelor\u2019s degrees being half stuff that European countries cover in high school (only for students that are going to university) and half what you\u2019re there to study? A U.K. BA is three years but that\u2019s one more year of major courses than US students do, and nothing out of major. Is it something to do with SLACs, or a weak administrative state or the Progressives?
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We think it\u2019s hilarious that Germans call their serious high schools \u201cgymnasium\u201d b/c that\u2019s what our high schools call recess

But part of it is that, we don\u2019t have \u201cserious\u201d high schools, we have all-inclusive geographic high schools (but they use \u201ctracking\u201d to segregate by class and the \u201cgeography\u201d is also striated by class but we pretend to overlook it because euro-style\u201cclass\u201d has no validity in American mythology)

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