European countries also have good and bad schools, they just don't constrain attendance geographically. Usually you only need good test scores to get into the b

European countries also have good and bad schools, they just don't constrain attendance geographically. Usually you only need good test scores to get into the better schools, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(school)