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Germany has a three tier class system built right into its education system.

• cmurf 11y ago
  it is not a class system, it's integrating some aspect of meritocracy. It is performance, not wallet based.
  • icelancer 11y ago
    Performance is highly correlated with household income for fairly obvious reasons, regardless of system.
    • cmurf 11y ago
      Of course, but there's a difference between income being relevant yet incidental, and embracing it as a completely appropriate model to relish in.
• Tomte 11y ago
  Not everywhere. Schooling is totally state-dependant. And maybe the fiercest and bitterest war waged in state politics over the last decades were about school systems. In Hamburg there are mostly comprehensive schools. In the largest state, Northrhine-Westphalia, there are still those separate tiers, but comprehensive schools are probably the majority.