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Children Finland do not go to school all-year-round. They used to have world-record 3 months summer vacation. Also special 1-week skiing holiday in winter. In a
by timonoko 15y ago
Children Finland do not go to school all-year-round. They used to have world-record 3 months summer vacation. Also special 1-week skiing holiday in winter. In addition to regular christmasses and passovers.
- guard-of-terra 15y agoI believe that all of the ex-USSR has 3 month summer vacations for schools, too. Plus three smaller week-long vacations during the rest of the year.
- nazar 15y agoI can confirm that. Here we have 3+ month of summer holiday(may25-sep1) and 3 holiday periods(more than one week) during the year. Also in Singapore they normally have 3 months summer holiday at university(student in Singapore uni myself)
- wisty 15y agoAlso, Finland has the best rated education system. It could be because it's really conservative, but not hard-assed (1950-style classes, but with friendly teachers). Or it could just be because of Finnish is said to be a really easy language (phonetic, consistent, and with unpretentious technical vocabulary).
- aristus 15y agoIt's a joke. :) I should try to dig up a country that does have year-round school.
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoI assumed the point to be that it wasn't true that the mother is spinning a li[n]e.