TornadoCreator wrote:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
That's a funny one, tell it again. No seriously, I'd love to hear that one again. American's are better at spelling than the British. Wow.
I'll believe that when I see it. Sorry, but any country where the average person doesn't understand why the phrase "I could care less", is wrong and meaningless, doesn't get to boast about it's literacy.
My limited experience with the British education system wasn't particularly good. I went to the equivalent of American public school in England for two years (I think you guys used opposite terms and it was a "private" school). 4-5th grade equivalent.
First, they held me back one year purely based on age. My prior schooling was homeschool, started due to my birthday being a month too late to get into kindergarten in New Jersey. So I did kindergarten at home during the morning, and then went to public preschool >_>
Reading?
They had reading time. I read the entire reading book for my year. Then the next year's, which was as far as the school went.
Then I read all the books on the reading shelf in my classroom. Then they just said to bring in my own books to read for reading time.
My youngest brother, who was the only one of us to actually get taught to read in the British school, was behind the curve on it for years. The only one in the family who never read for leisure because he never learned to enjoy it.
About the only thing they taught me for math was long division...and I had to relearn that when I got back to the 'states because of differences in how work was shown.
I honestly didn't learn a whole lot outside of British history.
I have little doubt that there were better (and worse) schools, but averages have been discussed already here, I believe
While I'll freely admit that there are some pretty terrible spelling/grammar mistakes common on the web or to the U.S., I think some denizens of England destroy their native language on a regular basis as well.