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Originally Posted by DannysGhostGirl
Oh, sorry mod. Anyway, yeah, I have this friend who lives in Malaysia, and she has 11 subjects, and I almost passed out, because I'm in a regular American high school, and I only have 4 a semester, 8 total. And she has 11 WOW.
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I am a bit surprised (unpleasantly) by this. When I was attending highschool (4 schools, in 3 different states - MS, IL, TX, in 4 years) I never had that light of a load. There was never less that 6 full classes per semester and a minimum of 7 hours per day.
Of course, in college you were considered full time if you were carrying 4 classes (3 credit hrs each), but I had no problems continuing with 6 (18 credit hrs per semester). And none of that took into account extra-curricular activities, such as my theatre work which sometimes required as many as 10-12 hr shifts.
If you are only expected to do 1/2 to 2/3rds the work we did 20 years ago, its no wonder when some people start work after finishing school these days in the U.S. they seem a bit lazy to the older generation.
But friends here from Japan for graduate studies, tell me that the workload there is really not as hard as Americans seem to believe. Its more competition and discipline at the lower levels of the system that sparks the reputation for their system being so hard. I am not sure who to believe, but logic tells me its somewhere in between to two impressions.