What is school like in Germany?
The descrition given by the father of four is very good. As for what school is like: It is not like you select classes and change the room for every lesson. Rather, there are “branches” the kids can select at specific stages during their schooling. For instance, when you start Gymnasium, you choose which language you want to start learning in fifth grade. Than everyone who, for instance, chose Latin will be put into one “class” together. That class of students have all their lessons together. They have a room assigned to them, and the teachers come in for the lessons. There is one class representative and one vice class representative elected, and usually two people volunteer to take care of the “class book”, a kind of log of who was in school on which day and who wasn’t and whos was late and who was not. The two volunteers only pick up the book from the school secretary in the morning and bring it back after classes. They don’t get to write in it. Further on, each “class” gets assigne
