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Fun facts about schooling in other countries.
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1
Kids in Finnish schools get no grades until their
2nd year
4th year
1st year
3rd year
2
What are French students served for lunch?
French bread pizza
French fries
a three course meal prepared by chefs
French toast
3
Less than half of the young people in this country can read.
Estonia
Mali
Guam
Iran
4
Russian children always start school on September 1
st
. What is this day called?
First day of Fall
Torture!
End of Summer
Knowledge Day
5
Which country has a 100% literacy rate?
Iceland
Finland
Luxembourg
Vatican City
6
At lunch, kids in Australia enjoy drinking ‘poppers’ – in America, we call these same items
Squeeze-its
Sports Bottle drinks
Juice Boxes
Sodas
7
Which United States city is most illiterate?
Lakeland, FL
Baltimore, MD
Long Beach, CA
Portland, OR
8
In Spain, the school lunch time is about how long?
45 minutes
1 hour
2 hours
3 hours
9
In Bangladesh, some students attend school
in the forest
in a temple
on a boat
in a rice paddy
10
Children in the Philippines ride to school in a
ox cart
boat
bus
rickshaw
11
Many schools in Vietnam have only half day sessions for what reason?
All the reasons shown
Children needed to help work with parents
Lack of teachers
Overcrowding
12
Kids in some parts of Kenya attend school
in mud huts.
under trees in their village.
on the riverbanks.
in the farming fields.
13
On their first day of school, German children are given what?
A cone filled with ice cream
An orange traffic cone
A cone shaped party hat
A cone filled with gifts and sweets
14
Dr. Seuss is a graduate of which college?
Oxford
Cambridge
Yale
Harvard
15
In Kenya, Russia and India, children attend school how many days each week?
6
4
7
5
16
About 70% of children in this country have never been to school.
Egypt
South Sudan
Thailand
North Korea
17
To be considered literate (able to read well), Chinese need to know how many symbols?
5000
3000
1000
2000
18
Japanese kids bring bento boxes to school. What is in their bento box?
toys
pencils and pens
cleaning wipes
lunch
19
Which country reads the most hours per person each week?
Saudi Arabia
Russia
India
Argentina
20
What country has the most literate people (able to read)?
Latvia
Iceland
United States
Finland
21
Which city is the most literate (able to read well) in the United States?
Seattle, WA
Washington, D.C.
Minneapolis, MN
Mesa, AZ
