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There’s a limited amount you can do when everyone around you is destitute. I seriously doubt future coal miners were taught sophisticated math in high school in
by rejectedandsad 5y ago
There’s a limited amount you can do when everyone around you is destitute. I seriously doubt future coal miners were taught sophisticated math in high school in the USSR - they took tracking and specialization to an extreme, whereas this is culturally verboten in America (for good reason).
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- orthoxerox 5y agoIt's the Germans who are extreme specializers, with separate middle and high schools for vocational, professional and academic tracks. The Union had two optional years of high school, but everyone took the first eight with no tracks or optional classes. After that you could finish school or get three years of vocational education and join the workforce.
- ymolodtsov 5y agoSoviet schools weren't really specialized. They could have some classes with a heavier focus on specific subjects but all changes were minor. So yes, coal miners learned the same stuff. Only after grade 9 kids could apply to a professional school that would teach blue-collar professions and that's the first divergence point. P.S. In Soviet/Russian schools "class" is literally a group of kids who study all subjects together from grade 1 to 11, they are very rigid.