The Education System in Brazil

     The education system in brazil is similar to ours in certain ways. They have the law established that all kids must attend a school of some kind whether it being home school, public school, or boarding school. The Brazilian Educational System is also divided into three levels: fundamental, intermediate and higher education, the higher educatition being divided into two different levels: undergraduate and graduate. Preschool or infant education is added to this for the purpose of providing assistance to children under seven years of age unlike in America where we start school at ages four to six. Also Brazilian schools must have two hundred days of education a year.     The assessment of student achievement is defined in the school's internal regulations and includes learning evaluation expressed in grades by taking tests and attendance, the minimum requirement being 75% for both attendance and test scores. Also in Brazil to become a teacher you must only have three years of trainig while in America you must have five years of college.     For graduation all students that wish to graduate and continue on to graduate school must pass a test reviewing on everything taught through their years of school. While if you just wich to graduate and get a job you must just pass a test of what you have learned in under graduate school. These tests will also help decide what job field you are ment for and what graduate classes you should take in graduate school.
     A typical day in undergraduate school in Brazil would consist of getting dressed, in uniform, and going to school. School in Brazil usually starts at 7 and go to noon when the children usually return home for lunch, which in Brazil is the most important meal of the day.
     Math, geography, history, science, Portuguese, which is the national language of Brazil, and physical education are the main subjects studied by students in Brazil. Usually alot of the brazil schools are low on funds so music and art aren't usually included in a school day down there.