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In the USA children start going
to school when they are five and continue studying
until they are 16 or older. Compulsory education begins at the age of five when children go to primary school. Primary education lasts for six years. First they attend the infant school from five to seven.
In infant schools children don't have real classes. They get acquainted with the class - room, desks, play and learn through playing. They learn numbers and how to add them.
When the children are seven they go to junior school which they attend until eleven. Boys and girls study at junior school for four years. There they have classes, read and write, do mathematics. Then they go to secondary school.
At secondary school pupils study English, Mathematics, Science, Geography, History, Art, Music, Foreign languages and Physical training.
There are some types of secondary school in the USA. They are grammar school, modern school and comprehensive schools. There are some private schools in the USA. Boys and girls do not study together at these schools. The teachers of these schools pay personal attention to each pupil.
American pupils have school uniform. It is an old tradition in the country. A boy's uniform consist of a special suit, a school cap, a tie end a blazer. A girl's uniform consist of a hat, a coat, a skirt and a blouse. As usual uniform is dark.
As you have just read American education has many different faces but one purpose. Its purpose is to develop pupils' abilities and prepare them for life in the modern world.
