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American primary and secondary education
The story of America is one of striving for balance, working to create a balanced system. Our government is a balance of three branches: president, Congress, Supreme Court. State and Federal governments compete, creating another balance. Primary and secondary education follows this pattern; American education is produced by a balance of local, state, and federal power. The three powers compete, influencing education for economic, political, social, and other reasons.
These powers can result in great school districts with great schools providing great education, and they can also result in producing schools more appropriate to a third world country than the United States of America. Some of the greatest results of American education, public and private, can be seen in our discoveries, inventions, and art. Some of the greatest failures of our nation can be seen where American education does not work.
The strengths and weaknesses of American education start with the basic building block - money. Education is expensive with most of the money for public education coming from local taxes, especially property taxes. Each school district has to run their schools on the money they have. Prosperous school districts normally do well, while poor school districts do not.
A school district can be as small as one town or a number of towns grouped together. School districts normally have the right to tax and other political rights. In some states, there are not school districts and the government runs the schools. In Hawaii, unlike every other state, the entire state is one school district. School districts, schools, and education vary greatly across the United States of America.
Some of these differences can be seen in the variety of patterns and names of schools. Some of these are elementary school, which is the first four to six grades and usually includes kindergarten; K-8, which is from kindergarten to eighth grade; middle school, which is from about fifth to eighth grade; junior high school, which is from sixth to eighth or sixth to ninth grade; and high school which is from the ninth to twelfth grade or the tenth to twelfth grade. Depending on the school district, the names or grades may be different.
Students usually go to the school nearest to their home, but there are some areas where students go further if they want to go to a special school, or if their school district is attempting to balance students, normally for race reasons. Even for high school, most students go to the high school nearest to their home. In larger cities, there may be one or more magnet schools where students compete to get into special schools for science, academics, art, or music. The vast majority of high school students do not go to magnet schools.
High school is viewed as a time for growing up in America, a time for getting drivers licenses, first jobs, and first loves. While Americans do study and think about college, high school is a time for many things.
We hope this essay has told you what would like to know. If not, please feel free to let us know and we will be happy to write more. As always, we recommend Wikipedia for additional information.
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