France and the United States have differing school systems - French students start school earlier at ages 2-3 and progress through four schools with grades on a scale of 0-20, while US students typically begin at ages 3-4 and progress through three to four schools graded on a scale of 0-100. French schools do not sponsor extracurricular activities and students often repeat grades if they do not meet standards, whereas US schools sponsor extracurriculars and may place struggling students in summer school instead of holding them back.

1. France United States
* Start School at two or three * Kids are put into Head Start
years old, Kindergarden, and or Preschool at three or
stay in that grade for two to four.
three years. * Our Grade System goes
* Grade System goes from 0 to from 0 to 100.
20. (Very hard, Students * School do sponsor a lot of
rarely get a 18 or 19). our extra-curricular
* Schools do not or hardly ever activities.
sponsor Extra-curricular * Sometimes if grade aren’t
activities. pulled up high enough than
* More frequently, Student are they are sent to summer
held back to repeat a year if school or maybe held back
they don’t adjust to a class/ a grade.
grades are not good enough. * U.S. student’s grade level
* Have to go through four get higher as they cont. to
different school, but their get older; we go through
grades count down. three or four schools.
* Teachers get to leave after * Teachers have a set time
teaching each course. until when they are allowed
to leave school.
In my study of comparing and contrasting our country and French, i’ve learn quite
a bit of differences. For example, our school systems are the complete opposite. Some
may say that this is why the French student have a better learning quality than the U.S.
students. But in some way they do get put down by the way they run their system.
Many of their student take awhile longer to finish school due to year repeats,but they
basically make up for it with the amount of time spent in school. Il est important de faire
attention en classe. Il est important de respector les autres. Ils sont fort dans de
maths.