Thread: SCHOOL

Originally Posted by benace401

1. Is school mandatory?

Yes: initial (4 years) and medium (6 or 7 years) school education is mandatory.

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2.What is the length of a school day?

Normally from 8:30 to 12:00-14:00. This depends from how many lessons pupils have (from 4 to 6).

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3. what is the length of a school year?
4.When dose school start in the year?

School year starts at 1st September to 31st May. Three summer months are vacations; there are winter, spring and autumn vacations as well.

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5. what kind of sports or specific extracurricular activities are there?

"Physical culture" lessons.

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6.Do the school provide food? if so how much?

School dinners. But them weren't free -- even in good old Soviet times.

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7. What subjects are studied in lower grades?
8. what subjects are thought in the higher grades>

As usual. In initial classes -- reading, writing, arithmetics, etc. In medium classes -- algebra & geometry, phisics & chemistry, foreign language, literature, history, geography, etc.

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9. How long dose homework take?

Obviously, depends from amount of homework (and how able certain pupils are ).

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10. do Russians value education

Yes, they do.

P.S. My knowledge in this area may be a bit outdated, so feel free to fix me.