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I have no problems with your country. Any country that ties traffic infractions to income is fine with me. I heard most of your schooling is free to? The F

I have no problems with your country. Any country that ties traffic infractions to income is fine with me. I heard most of your schooling is free to? The French have a lot we(USA) should look into.

pingou 13y ago
There's no such thing in France, maybe you're mistaken with some Nordic countries? Edit : I was talking about the traffic fines. Source : I'm French, which may explain my broken English.
- moystard 13y ago
  School is free until high school in France, and university can be considered as free as well, because it is extremely cheap compared to the USA/Canada/UK for example, and because there is plenty of help to students with low resources.
  - jlgreco 13y ago
    > School is free until high school in France Friendly fyi: "until" is generally exclusive in English. An similar word that is inclusive is "through". So "I'm on vacation until Monday" implies they will be in the office on Monday, but "I'm on vacation through Monday" implies they will be back Tuesday. I understood what you meant, but for a moment I thought you were saying that you had to pay for highschool in France.
- vvvVVVvvv 13y ago
  France, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Poland, (etc ...) what's the difference when you're not from the EU ? =)
- byroot 13y ago
  > maybe you're mistaken with some Nordic countries? I think it's switzerland [0] [0] http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/1118676-bientot-des-amendes-selon-le-revenu.html http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/1118676-bientot-des-amendes-se...
bpizzi 13y ago
French school isn't free, you're just basically paying it afterwards, threw many taxes including personnal income based taxes.
- jefm 13y ago
  I'm french and paying taxes so that all children - including those from underprivileged environments - have, at least in theory, access to a free education is one thing I'm quite proud of.
  - bpizzi 13y ago
    Who said you should have not to be proud? Proudness apart, your school is still not "free, as in beer".
    - jefm 13y ago
      You didn't say that, as actually I'm not proud of anything related to nationality (it was a reference to the first post in the thread). What I meant is that in the particular case of the education system, the contribution system you mentioned allows socially deprived people to actually access the education system for free, as in beer.
      - bpizzi 13y ago
        So actually we're complementing each other: access to school is free for every one, but school isn't free for the citizen. My point was to say that "free school" should not be mentioned, instead we should speak of "school paid by taxed citizens for everyone" which is more accurate. Well, you've already understood: I'm french too ;)
        jefm 13y ago
        Agreed :)
bsaul 13y ago
Yeap, they're basically free and it shows. Most universities have buildings that make you feel like living in a post-apocalyptic world.

I have no problems with your country. Any country that ties traffic infractions to income is fine with me. I heard most of your schooling is free to? The French have a lot we(USA) should look into.

pingou 13y ago

There's no such thing in France, maybe you're mistaken with some Nordic countries? Edit : I was talking about the traffic fines. Source : I'm French, which may explain my broken English.

moystard 13y ago
School is free until high school in France, and university can be considered as free as well, because it is extremely cheap compared to the USA/Canada/UK for example, and because there is plenty of help to students with low resources.
- jlgreco 13y ago
  > School is free until high school in France Friendly fyi: "until" is generally exclusive in English. An similar word that is inclusive is "through". So "I'm on vacation until Monday" implies they will be in the office on Monday, but "I'm on vacation through Monday" implies they will be back Tuesday. I understood what you meant, but for a moment I thought you were saying that you had to pay for highschool in France.
vvvVVVvvv 13y ago
France, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Poland, (etc ...) what's the difference when you're not from the EU ? =)
byroot 13y ago
> maybe you're mistaken with some Nordic countries? I think it's switzerland [0] [0] http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/1118676-bientot-des-amendes-selon-le-revenu.html http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/1118676-bientot-des-amendes-se...

bpizzi 13y ago

French school isn't free, you're just basically paying it afterwards, threw many taxes including personnal income based taxes.

jefm 13y ago
I'm french and paying taxes so that all children - including those from underprivileged environments - have, at least in theory, access to a free education is one thing I'm quite proud of.
- bpizzi 13y ago
  Who said you should have not to be proud? Proudness apart, your school is still not "free, as in beer".
  - jefm 13y ago
    You didn't say that, as actually I'm not proud of anything related to nationality (it was a reference to the first post in the thread). What I meant is that in the particular case of the education system, the contribution system you mentioned allows socially deprived people to actually access the education system for free, as in beer.
    - bpizzi 13y ago
      So actually we're complementing each other: access to school is free for every one, but school isn't free for the citizen. My point was to say that "free school" should not be mentioned, instead we should speak of "school paid by taxed citizens for everyone" which is more accurate. Well, you've already understood: I'm french too ;)
      - jefm 13y ago
        Agreed :)

bsaul 13y ago

Yeap, they're basically free and it shows. Most universities have buildings that make you feel like living in a post-apocalyptic world.