German schools very greatly in relation to American schools. This is do to mainly that German schools train kids for a certain job starting at like fourth grade. In America students don't pick a career path until high school or at the latest college. American schools are under the "no child gets left behind" law that makes it so all kids pass and graduate and none of them get "left behind." I feel that doing schooling the German way is better because of the fact that the student can know the most about his or her field of work to the best of their ability. While here in America if you want to know that much about your job, you have to go hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt. Also I feel that the German system also gives the kids more chances to get a job because if forces them to have a career path already picked out for them so they don't have to worry about it and it makes them focus on one career instead of hundreds of them. Also German high schools have their schedules set up like college schedules. This means that not every class is taken everyday, some may only be taken twice a week. With differences comes similarities, like both systems have different grades and both have middle school and high school. Most of us can agree that German schooling is pretty different from American schooling.
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Avoid sweeping phrases such as "most of us can agree" and stick to more specific facts to make arguments. Your arguments focus mostly on job training, where Germany tends to do a better job, but American universities are considered better overall. What is your response to that fact?
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