She should have explained the difference between College and University in Canada. College typically focus on specific employment skills, career training, and trades. These courses are typically 1-3 year certificates, diplomas or advanced diplomas. Although, more and more are also offering 4-year degree programs and hybrid diploma/degree programs with Universities. Universities in Canada are degree-granting institutions that provide bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. Universities typically focus on analytical skills (the ability to understand and use information), and academic and professional programs.
Just a bit of clarification. Colleges in Ontario specifically, can offer their own 4 year degrees with no affiliation with a University. In other words, you can get a 4-year degree at an Ontario college not tied to any of the universities.
Both are a waste of time, dummy factories. The actual difference is what the degree is called you get. You can't get a PHD in any college. Just like you can't get a bachelor degree in university.
My Canadian highschool (in rural Alberta) didn't use letters as grades, we just used the percentages. Like, my overall mark in a class would be 86%, not an A or B or anything like that. We also never had dances like prom, but that's more of a culture thing. The EQAO sounds a lot like our PAT tests
EQAO is an ontario thing, and I wish they'd get rid of it. I don't know how it gives anyone valid data. It's supposed to be a test to check if the teachers are teaching properly and the kids are at the level they should be. However when you have EQAO coming up, the teacher's spend a LOT of time prepping the kids. They do practice tests, they do practice work. Because they want to insure their class does well on the test. So this in fact will slant results, because the teachers are purposely trying to prep the students for these specific tests. If they really wanted to get reliable data, they would select schools randomly, and give them surprise tests towards the end of the year.
Ya I looked up 75% and it's a C! That's crazy as a lot of kids are proud (fine with) of a 75. It seems far from pass (50) So 80% would probably be a B-
I have four daughters in high school in Canada(in Ontario as well) ...from grade 9-12. They don’t use the freshman/sophmore terms and we have very strict testing standards.Also our high schools are very safe...no metal detectors,no security guards and sports here are not a big thing like the US.We have teams but they aren’t money makers.Also we have a very high post secondary enrollment.Our grade system is lower because our schools are much harder than the US...it’s very hard to get an A here versus the US
Maybe it's different for the rest of Ontario but I where I live, Toronto, we actually do kinda use freshmen, sophomore, etc, it's pretty common term just not always used
freshman sophomore junior senior are American terms, I have never heard a Canadian use them. Canadian high school is 8-12 because we dont have middle schools here.
A friend of mine moved from Texas to Ontario in the 70's. She was put back from grade 10 to grade 9 due to the USA's lower standard of education. I remember her telling me high school was more difficult in Canada. Two years later she move to California and they put her ahead a grade as our grade 11 was equal to grade 12 there.
The biggest difference regarding her first point is that High Schools don't actually use the letter grade system. They only use marks/percentages. It doesn't matter if something is an A. It matters if it is a 95 or an 88 though.
@@FutureFire1990 1st it depends when and where you went to school. Each province may have different system and school was very different for people currently over 60, those over 25 and everyone below 25
@@FutureFire1990 guess you didn't get the memo yet... IN YOUR PROVINCE MAYBE but stop talking as if the whole country is using that system. like for fuck sake, get a hint. Education is a provincial power under Canadian constitution, so we have 13 different versions to deal with. How much of a jackass do you have to be to assume that everyone has been living a similar life to yours... get a clue before you speak. holy jeez !
I went to High school in Alberta. We had a lot of USA students from Texas, because their parents were sent to Canada to work for the Canadian branch of the International Oil and gas companies. The Texas students had 10% added to their grades when they went back to Texas because Canadian Schools mark so much harder than Canadian schools (it is not straight memorization, the student has to demonstrate teamwork, independent work and understanding and critical thinking about the material taught. In Canada, Universities and Colleges also look at travel, sports experience, volunteer and/or work experience.
Hey! French Canadian from Quebec here. The education system in Quebec is a bit different too. There's kindergarten, then 6 grades for elementary schools. Then 5 grades for highschool which we don't call grade 7-12, and actually call highschool grade 1-5. Then before going to university, Quebec students will usually go to Cegep for either a 3 year technical program or a 2 year pre-university program. The technical programs unlock a lot of technical jobs but also provide access to university for further training and education. Then you have university where you have your typical certificate, bachelor, master and doctorate degrees. Also, there are laws in regards to French education in order to preserve our historical language in a North American sea of English. These laws are sometimes amended/changed with new governments and are often debated during and out of election season (speaking of, today is election day in the Province of Quebec, and the most recent version of these laws were highly debated, so it might change). These laws say that non-english students have to succeed a universal French test in order to get their highschool or cegep degree. These laws also put a cap for english cegeps on the number of non-english students that can register with them. Hope it helps
CEGEP is an acronym that stands for: Collège d'Enseignement Général Et Professionnel. Which would translate to something like General and professional/vocational College.
Thanks so much for this info. I'm in Alberta and graduated in 1972 from High School. My information about Quebec schooling is not as up to date as it once was. Here in Red Deer, though it may differ in other school districts, in Elementary Schools French is taught in Grade 2 and up. There also are French immersion schools and French /English Schools here. In 1962 when I was in school in Calgary, I was taught French starting in Grade 3. I was very conversational fluent after graduating, but not so much now. Haven't had to use French since I retired. I am trying to brush up now that travel is allowed.
@@OdinWannaBeYeah no, not letting French students study in English if they want to is not "preserving the language" its "affecting students' futures and what they want to do with their lives". The government should not get to decide how you live your life.
@@NightRainPanda if you go to quebec to study... do it in french, its way better and easier after to learn english. The problem is there, wanting to study in english in a province where the peoples ( 8 millions) speak french. You are just limiting your possibility because you don't want to learn ?? French can't survive against english without basic laws that any country or culture have. You hate something you dont understand. No laws will force you to speak french, its just common sense to do it if quebec want to be cohesive as a society.
Schooled my kids for 3 years in the states. I noticed a huge difference in the priority schools and families placed on sports. High schoolers getting ranked state-wide for their volleyball skills etc. It was explained to me that many people relay on sports to secure themselves scholarships for post-secondary education.
In Ontario, I overheard an American girl from Pennsylvania talking to an Australian about their time in Canada. She talked of how bored she was in her Pensylvania high school after she returned from spending 2 yrs in a Montreal, Quebec high school because the studies were much more advanced. The grade matters less than the level of knowledge you've attained to achieve it.
My granddaughter also said the same thing after attending school in both countries. She said she too was bored in the American school and thought the same grade in the American school was quite far behind compared to the same grade in a Canadian school. She was also surprised at how little American kids, and teachers, knew about Canada in general.
@@davemarchildon2583 The US is Canada's largest trading partner, but the reverse is not true. China is America's largest trading partner (although Canada is 2nd). Not that Americans know a lot about China either ;). In fact, Americans don't know much about...America. It's a weird state of affairs that I had to take a WHOLE YEAR of American History in grade 10 (it was pretty interesting and advanced, and covered American history from colonial times up until the Civil Rights movement) while many Americans don't even get that much of an education *in their own history* (let alone Canadian or European or Asian/African history). We also got a good grounding in geography, so I can still name all the states (without a map for reference) and about half of their capitals, and I graduated high school in 1999.
@@VoIcanomanI stand corrected. China imports/exports more. I think the difference can also be attributed to our exposure to American television programing. I'm 60 and when I was a kid, there were iconic Canadian children's programs but that's it I think. We grew up on American sitcoms, movies and gameshows. No cable at the time - I have a soft spot for Buffalo, New York (just across lake Ontario) that gave us channel 24. Apart from the Canadian Broadcast Corp. (CBC) that provided National News and some well produced shows with low budgets and bad lighting, American programming was a massive influence and still is. Canada is usually at or near the top on the list most educated countries (completion of teriary education) overall however, with a more sophisticated, more balanced society. My family were talking to a man on a bus in San Diego who said this very thing. He spent 8 of his early years an hour away from us in Guelph, Ontario.
I was in high school in Ontario from 1997 to 2002. At that time we had Grade 13, also called OAC, which stands for Ontario Academic Credit. It was generally taken by kids who wanted to persue a University education. It wasn’t mandatory unless you wanted to go to University. OAC is gone now. These days it just goes to grade 12. Just a bit of Ontario Educational History.
You can take another year after grade 12 if you feel you are not quite ready or are missing courses before entering University. I know this because my daughter has done it. She was only 17 when she graduated high school and I thought she too young & needed a victory lap before entering University
I was in high school in the seventies in Ontario and went to grade 13. Back then, grade 12 was for College but you needed grade 13 for University. We received a regular diploma for grade 12 and an honours diploma for grade 13.
The other difference you can take courses at the General or Advanced level. General will get you into college. But you need to take advanced level courses in Grades 11 & 12 to meet the prerequisites for University. The advanced level courses replaced the OAC level.
-And they’re looking to bring it back, optionally- Never mind lol. The liberals said they would reimplement it, 1-2 years ago, if they won, but the conservatives are in power so…
I went to high school in Ontario. You would graduate after grade 12, but had the option of taking a 13th year called OAC (Ontario Academic Credits) which further prepared you for post secondary study. It was phased out after 2003. I spoke to a friend who went to college in the US and he said first year was like a repeat of what he already learned in grade 13.
@@TwistyMcFisty right now I am pretty sure it is just grade 12+, most of us refer to it as a victory lap because to get into university you just need to complete grade 12 and have had high enough grades
My high school in Canada was far more free than it appears schools in the USA are. We had 5 periods which you could pick whatever classes you wanted to fill them. 3 periods before lunch and 2 after lunch. We had a minimum class credit number in order to be eligible for graduation. I managed to have multiple spare periods throughout my last 2 years of high school because I took an extra class over some lunch hours. I didn't even have to show up at school until the 3rd period (10:45) because I chose to take 2 morning spares so that I could sleep later. Lunch time was from 11:45-1:00. You were free to do whatever you wanted in that time. I was one of the few people in my school whom actually used the cafeteria at lunch time. The school couldn't care less about whether or not you choose to come to school on time or for your class. If you were late or skipped class, good for you, your mark will reflect that. If you choose to fail a class, then you'll need to take it again. The staff were very focused on personal responsibility and accountability. We didn't have "homeroom" either, except to check in at the start of the school year to be assigned your locker, given your classes, agendas, etc.
Funny how different things are on the west coast: Here in British Columbia, A's are at 86%, not 80%. We do not typically do middle-school. You're in Elementary School from Grade 1-7 (sometimes they have attached kindergartens), and then High School from Grade 8-12. "Marks" are individual points on a test/exam/assignments typically, though "what mark did you get" can be used to refer to "what score out of 20 did you get" kinda. "Grades" are still the A/B/C/D/F here. "Getting good grades" and "getting good marks" can be used interchangeably though, because it implies that you do well in general.
Sometimes Canada forgets that like the US, education in Canada is under jurisdiction of Provincial/State government. There is variation, though there have been successful national pushes for national standards in certain areas: sexual health education is one.
Canada has one of the most highy educated populations in the world, with a large percentage of the population going into post-secondary education. When I went to school in Ontario, high school went from grade 9 to grade 13 (or "OAC"). OAC (or Ontario Academic Credit) courses basically were university preparation courses involving a large component of independent research. But some students managed to get at least some of their OAC courses out of the way in grade 12. I only had to take 6 OACs, but wound up taking 9. Because I took a number of them in grade 12, I still wound up with half the day free in grade 13, so I was able to do most of my work at school instead of home, or play card games in the library. Or I'd leave early if I had my last class of the day and had no reason to stick around. Ontario eventually got rid of grade 13, which meant that one year there were twice as many graduates (grade 12 and 13 graduating at once) and competing to get into university -- the "double cohort". I understand Ontario is thinking of bringing grade 13 back. Frankly, I think it had benefits. It was great preparation, ensured I was more mature when I started university, etc. And the reason I took 9, OACs? It was an opportunity to take courses in things that interested me but weren't necessarily relevant to my career goals or intended major, and gave me the opportunity to pick and choose which grades / courses I'd present to admissions when applying for university.
In Quebec, the term we use are (kinda translated from french) mandatory Kindergarden Primary school 1 - 6 Secondary school 1 - 5 to get a better job CEGEP (2 or 3 years depending of the program) University (need a CEGEP diploma) other you can do a specific formation and get a professional study diploma
@@Antoine_Dthere are exceptions, but yes you need one in most cases. Exceptions would be : having a high school diploma from outside of Québec and having a relevant working experience of a couple of years. I don’t remember the number of working years required, but those are the only exception. The majority of students going to university have passed trough cegep.
@@karineb.fortin909 two of friends went straight to criminology in uni after secondary, one in biomedical field and one in mechanical engineering. Most people go in Cégep because it’s simpler to traverse from one workplace to another and some classes are “contingentés” like medical school or law school (aka they are competitive and required good grades, usually in the form of R grade). It’s also easier to adapt and you don’t have to do summer school to view subjects not approached during secondary school like calculus or advanced chemistry. Finally, it’s for, a lot of people, a sort of redemption to have more free time before going to uni since arrived at uni, studies take all your time and it’s hard to be more available outside of school. The moment you step in university, dec is useless. Most employers don’t even care about your Cégep diploma.
Times have changed since I went to high school. Graduated in 1978. In Ontario, we started learning french in grade 7 for 20 minutes twice a week. In high school grades were percentages 60% and over meant you passed a test. We had 3 levels for english and math. Below average, average and advance. Depending on your english and math class gave you options for the other 6 courses you had in a year. Below average meant you took trade courses, like auto mechanic and if your marks were above 80% you received a certificate and could get an apprenticeship with no post secondary schooling. Average english and math gave you more choices and advance meant you were planning to go on to grade 13 and university. If you wanted to go to college you took average english and math. They all taught the same but at different speeds of learning. To graduate you had to have 4 english credits, 4 math credits, 2 language credit- french, german or latin, 3 sciences ( biology, chemistry or physic) 3 geography or history, 2 shop, home economics or business courses, 1 art and 2 gym and 1 religious course. There was no security or metal detector. We had 8 subjects a day starting at 8:30 am til 4 pm. We had a football team, hockey team and basketball team and played against the other schools in our city. Lunch was 75 minutes, and we were allowed to leave the school grounds. Right across the street from my high school was a pub called Patty Greene's and we would go there for a plate of fries with homemade gravy and a bottle of coke it cost 70 cents total. We had two major dances or proms ( long dresses and guys in suits) but also had casual dances every couple of months with local bands like "teenage head".
In Québec, high school starts in grade 7 and is called "secondary 1" and this goes on until grade 11 ("secondary 5"). After that there is a two- or three-year college program (this college is called "CÉGEP" in French) and after two years of this, people can go to university, which can take 3-4 years depending on the program. University fees in Québec are the lowest in the country.
Hi Tyler, when I went to high school we had a hockey team and a lacrosse team. Most of us grew up playing lacrosse in the summer and hockey in winter. Lacrosse is Canada’s national sport.
I'm just over a minute into her video and this amazing young woman has already introduced the comparison, provided her structure/metric for comparison, and identified the potentials for bias/limitations in her analysis. She's going to do well in life. And in the difference in scoring it doesn't mean it is "harder to get an A" it is just a different metric for the same 100%. It is normal and equal for each system as everyone operates under their system. In Canada the using the marks for any required courses (if you apply for an English Program, English marks are required to be included; Math: and they will want Calculus, Finite, and Trigonometry grades) plus a few more you can choose to include yourself. Usually about 6 grades in total. I went to high school so long ago we had a Grade 13 in Ontario. An extra, optional year, post graduation for more advanced/challenging, similar to first-year Canadian university courses. We would go to University a year older as a result.
I agree. Grade 13 was an option. And some seen it as a benefit, all I ever seen was parents pushing for it and kids doing what their parents wanted/or not. Others went to work for the year, and had some money, and applied and got into university based on their grade 12 Marks. I went to university after working for 3 years. I was considered a mature student and accepted. It had nothing to do with my grades
Not only Grade 13 but the difference between General vs Advanced vs Scholarship Classes. Shakespeare is a good example; General students are taught the popular play(s), Advanced get more indepth analysis and Scholarship analyzed plays like 12th Night. This aspect was canned in favour of High Schools that specialized in Performing Arts, Technical Trades, etc. Not too many welders would attend a Performing Arts High School, let alone an University; a Community College, yes.
@@bucketlist3527 English wasn't your forte but you were smart enough to earn some money before moving on to university. Student loans are the American trap.
@@ScubaSteveCanada Excuse me, English wasn't my forte? And BTW, I'm Canadian. Your reference to American student loans, I might agree, but my son, A Marine Biologist, BA degree, has big student loan debt in Canada. I think students face the realization that education vs. debt is pay now or pay later. Problem is finding a job in your chosen field (especially during the past 2 years related to Covid). He is ok, working but not in his profession. East Coast Canada, I am sure he will get to do what he loves soon.
Hello. This serves to provide a perspective from living in BC. 86%-100% = A 73%-85% = B 67%-72% = C+ 60%-66% = C 50%-59% = C- 0%-49% = I (Incomplete) 2 Incompletes in a school year results in an F for the course. In my town elementary school went from grades K-7, and high school was grades 8-12; however by the time I started grade 9 the population of my town grew to the point where middle schools were becoming more popular. They started for grades 6-8. Grades 9 and 10 were considered the juniors, and grades 11 and 12 were the seniors. Those titles were mainly used for groupings for extra curricular activities like sports teams, drama, band and choir classes etc.
When I went to high school in Alberta, we started at grade 10. Junior high is grades 7-9. We had standardized testsv (called diplomas) that were worth 50% of your final grade. We could leave the school to get lunch, but the time for it was all dependent on how you scheduled your periods (i.e., had a spare for lunch and how long it was). We also had cheerleaders and a football team, but I think that's only because we were a big high school. There was no hockey team that I know of - not many high schools have hockey teams as far as I'm aware.
I went to 2 HS's in Ontario, many years ago. The first was big into football with a dedicated stadium, coaching staff, cheerleaders, pep rallies etc. The second was all about hockey. The rink was next door and the entire town would show up, not just for games, but for practices. It was a huge deal. I guess this sort of thing varies from school to school and province to province.
Yeah from Alberta as well and yeah fully agreed on all points here. We had a small high-school but we had 2 football teams. Junior and senior. We had the same for basketball (men's and women's), soccer (men's and women's), so on and so forth. Our grades are based on this... A- was 86% to 90% A was 91% to 95% A+ was 96% to 100% School here is also K-6 (Elementary), 7-9 (Jr. High-school), and 10-12 (High-school). And yeah all grade 12 student must take the High-school Diploma exam which as noted above was 50% of your final grade for the year.
I skipped so much school, the only reason I passed is I got 80+ on all my exams after having a fifty or something in my classes. Nowadays diplomas in Alberta are worth 20%
I'm Canadian living in B.C. In school I had the option to learn my language (I'm first nation) so that's what I took instead of French. My school and my children's school does have a school nurse. My mother in law is a teacher in Ontario (now retired) but she was making 80k a year.
Ooooh where did you grow up? What language? I also live in BC and get to work with lots of First Nation communities in my job and I know that some have the language program and others don’t. French is such an abstract language to learn in BC imo. I wish everyone could learn an indigenous language instead.
Which language? I’m Métis but ended up learning Spanish of all things in Alberta. But I went to high school in BC. In the city of Vernon. I ended up learning languages on my own. Now I can understand enough to travel with 6 of them. And basics in 22 or so more.
There are high-school hockey teams, but if you're serious about hockey you play for a junior team outside the school. Not only is junior hockey a road to the NHL, it's also a road to a hockey scholarship at an American university.
Yeah. That's true for football too. Junior football is big and entirely outside the educational system. Also true for lacrosse and baseball I believe. I don't know about basketball.
No high school hockey teams in most of British Columbia that I know of. It’s all Basketball and volleyball. Very expensive private boarding school ($50k a year or more) have private rowing teams. Some have tennis teams.
Depends on the junior league. My nephew was drafted to the OHL but deferred to the BCHL, because once you play OHL, you're disqualified from NCAA scholarships.
Living in the prairies, I feel like the most common sports teams for our high schools are either volleyball or soccer teams. Where I went to high school, we didn't have a hockey team. We had a broomball team instead.
@@James-0077 In Montreal, my high school had a Hockey cosom team (we played hockey with a ball in a gymnasium against other teams in Montreal), but I don't know any secondary school in the region that has an ice hockey team.
I'm not sure how common that is throughout the province. I would expect most of the city schools to have hockey teams, but I was living in a small town at the time.
My high school in Saskatchewan had a hockey team, curling team, football team, baseball team, golf team, cross country running team, wrestling team, track and field team, volleyball team, etc. I'm sure there were more teams than that. The sport that was most backed by the school was Football though.
Being Canadien I didn’t have a homecoming and didn’t participate to prom nor convocation ceremony ‘cause I thought they were an annoyance. Especially in Quebec, high-school really isn’t such huge step in our life.
Canada has AP classes. We had AP classes all through high school in Ontario. They were called Honour classes. Sometimes, you might need to commute to another local school but they are available.
Same in Newfoundland, and if you did an AP course in high school and passed, it counted as a credit for the first level of that class at the university.
BC has just done away with the AP program this year. It's been a bit of a controversy, especially as some of the reasoning for ending the program is that it "discriminates against kids who don't qualify for AP"...in other words, let's now celebrate mediocrity, and not challenge either group, gifted or otherwise.
In my high school we have ap and at the beginning of grade 12 you can choose to take the ap test which they order from the states and if you get a level 4 or above you get a certain amount of university credits which allow you to jump ahead in some courses in university because by doing that good on the test you effectively demonstrate that you already have that knowledge
@@arlyquino Yeah that's kind of stupid, when I was in school if a class didn't challenge me I simply did not care to attend. Why should anyone attend something they can literally miss every class and still get 80-100% on every test. Like clearly my time is spent better out of class than in it. For that reason I think all gifted kids should have just as much right to better education. As disabled kids have tons of support and changes implemented just for them(not trying to say they don't need it, just stating in terms of equality).
My personal experience growing up in BC and having just finished high school this previous year: An A grade is from 86% - 100%. B is 72% - 85%. C is 61% to 71%, C- is 50% - 60%, and 49% or lower is an F. (At least from what I remember) I have not applied to Post-Secondary schooling (college / uni) yet, but I've heard that it does only use marks from your Grade 12 year, and maybe Grade 11. As far as I know, the only standardized tests we do is an English / literacy test in Grade 10, a numeracy assessment in Grade 11, and another literacy test in grade 12. All of these are just to make sure that the students are actually learning at the correct pace and that the teachers aren't failing to do their jobs in these two different classes (English and Math). My school district never had a homecoming, I also didn't know about it being at the beginning of the year. We do have a couple different dances during our middle school years, and probably a couple during high school, I just never went to them. We also only have a grad prom, but every grad is allowed a date, which can supposedly be anyone who goes to school in the district. (District = the city I live in which has a few high schools, quite a few middle schools, and a ton of elementary schools. Where I live, we don't do football aside from a period of time during P.H.E (Physical Health and Education, which is just PE but sometimes you have to do a health class for a couple weeks even though its all stuff you learned in like middle school. The health class is taken from your time in PE, not a separate course.) We do have basketball tournaments and cheerleaders are a part of that. These tourney's happen either once or twice a year, where games rotate between schools. Students can ask to leave class to go watch the basketball games which have a paid entry fee (I think it was only like 2 dollars but the funds went towards the teams I believe, and these games went all day so every student usually made their way down to watch at some point. We have a bunch of sports teams (Track and field, volleyball, basketball, etc.) but we didn't have a football team. We also didn't have a hockey team because hockey isn't a year round sport. All the coaches for our sports teams are also teachers who volunteer. Our school also didn't have detentions as far as I am aware (or maybe I just wasn't around that type of crowd), most people just ran rampant for a while then were threatened with expulsion and kept their rowdiness more lowkey. Our lunch went from around 11:10am to 12:00pm, and we were given free reign to leave the property any time as long as we weren't supposed to be in class. (For a class we were supposed to make a physical project to present an idea, and we were allowed to leave property to go buy the supplies because the teacher had run out.) A lot of students did end up skipping classes to go to the Tims that was like half a block up the road from the school. They usually end up getting caught because a principal would walk there to to catch them. We always started school the first Tuesday of September, because the first Monday is a holiday (Labour Day) and ended some time in late June. I'm not sure about the AP classes program being accurate here, all I know is that the classes were available at my high-school. Our schools don't have nurses, but there are quite a few teachers that know first aid and have their certifications, presumably level 3. (Where I live First Aid has 3 different levels to the training). The secretary ladies at the front desk in the office usually are part of the group of staff that have their certifications. None of my schools have ever had or have even thought of having any type of metal detector / bag check / security guards. We do have a single police officer in the school that I went to, I believe he does some patrolling and stuff but he mostly just hangs around in case something does happen, but you don't see him very often. French is a language you are forced to learn a bit of in grades 4 to 7, you can choose either Spanish or French in grade 8 and 9(most people choose French), then we had the choice between Spanish, French, German, Japanese and a local aboriginal language that I would totally butcher the spelling of if I tried. Despite having taken French for so many years, it doesn't tend to stick for most students. College and University are definitely different things here. As far as I know, College focusses on hands on things like mechanics and engineering vs University focusing on regular courses like math and english. Our schools never used the terms Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior. We were always referred to by our grade level. (If an assembly was only for the class that was going to be graduating that year, the first thing they would say is something like "Hello Grade 12's" then continue from there. I've heard people say they were a freshman/sophomore/junior/senior, but barely any people used it at all. The most patriotistic part of our schools were that we sang O' Canada at the start of like 90% of assemblies. That was it. We never once pledged allegiance to the flag and I had no idea Americans even did it. For remembrance day assemblies we do have a group of military scout students come in and perform something, but never at any other point in the year do they do it. When I was in elementary school there was a teacher strike to be paid more and we were only out of school for a couple days before they were like "Okay, well this isn't very good we should maybe just pay them a bit more." and the strike ended. Teachers still aren't paid the best but its a livable wage.
As you saw in a previous video, Canada is amongst the most highly educated countries as far as university degrees and other forms of higher education. While we also have specific trade schools, our emphasis is on working smarter not harder and getting the knowledge required for a positive career. Here in Canada they even prefer for Military applicants to have a degree even for basic infantry man due to the high tech in the modern armed forces. Great video series, as a Canadian I appreciate our brothers to the south taking the time to learn about us. Oh and for the record, I am one of the frozen chosen who do not live within a hundred miles of the border and I quite enjoy the minus 30-degree C(-22 F) and our +30C(86F) summers.
I agree with everything you said however coming from a military family I have to tell you the Canadian military is so desperate for people that you a 100% do not need a degree.
careful: anyone entering the Canadian military with a university degree is automatically enrolled as an officer candidate. No 'enlisted man ' would have a degree. All officers MUST have a university degree, without exception. No enlisted man in the ranks would remain as a non-commissioned officer (up to the rank of Sgt major or warrant officer) if he has a university degree--he would be promoted to 2nd lieutenant. The high tech jobs in the military do not require university degrees for enlisted men--you learn on the job. All high tech jobs in the military are lead by well educated men with university degrees as officers. This goes for women too of course. All enlisted men and women must have a high school diploma or sometimes a college diploma--(but not required ). All candidates for pilot training must have a university degree.
I was born and raised (not to mention graduated from high school) in Texas but went straight into university in Ontario. Even though my high school was one of the highest ranked public high schools in America when I attended and I was personally ranked within the top 10% of my graduating class of 850 students with an 1450 SAT score (out of the old 1600-system), I can honestly tell you that I felt woefully underprepared (academically, at the very least) for university as compared to my Canadian classmates.
two points. I'm in Vancouver but when I was in school both primary and High School, we didn't have 3 months off for summer. Our last day of school was in the 3rd week of June, and school always restarted in the first week of September. Also, I never understood the whole freshman/sophomore thing, it always seemed to me it was meant for university, not grades 8 to 12, though in some cases grade 8 and 9 would be called Junior High, so thanks for getting that explained. Tyler, you are doing a great job for getting in to the Canadian Psyche, you honestly should move here for a year or two, just to experience life as a Canadian and see how we do it
Pretty much the Same as with school where I grew up in Saskatchewan. Last day of classes was late June, started back up end of August, the 27th, the 28th. The classification “freshman, junior, sophomore, senior” seems silly to me.
Who gets 3 months off for summer? Last weekday in June until the Tuesday after Labour Day. High school is a bit different because the have finals for Gr 12 in June.
This is true for most of Canada, except for Quebec. In Quebec, elementary school ends in the 6th grade and there's no "Junior High". Kids go straight to High School and they spend five years there. Typically, we start counting again in High school and the grades are called "Secondary 1, sec. 2,..., sec. 5". However, I have heard some anglophones from Quebec say "I'm in grade 8 or 9, instead". We also have a network of public institutions between high shcool and university called "CEGEP" (an acronym for "College d'enseignement général et professionel" or College for general and professional learning"). The anglos often call them "Junior College". They are similar to Community colleges in the States because they offer two-year pre-university programs and three year technical programs. The one thing that's unique to Quebec in these colleges is the common general courses that all students have to take no matter what program they're in : Language (French and English), Philosophy, Phys. Ed. and a number of electives outside of their programe of studies. I actually teach biology in one of these colleges and I have students that will go on to University in Science or even in Medicine but also future nurses or dental hygenists. The great thing about CEGEPS is that tuition is basically free, excluding some administrative fees.
I went to Highschool in Canada for grades 8-9, then in the US for the last (though they tried to hold me back a grade because of my age, which only fucked things up because I was doing a mix of 9&10th grade classes because of it), and back in Canada we did have free-reign during lunch. An entire hour and it was open campus, and a lot of us even left school to go get lunch at the restaurants and and fast-food places nearby. But the best thing my school had was it ran on a Block System. So rather than having 6 classes a day from 7a-2pm, we had 8 classes split over 2 days. So on day 1, we'd have 4 classes, (845a-215p)and day 2 we'd have the other 4 classes. Each class was about 90 minutes long and we'd get two 15-minute breaks between classes and an hour for lunch. This made doing homework easier since we had effective an extra day to complete it.
my middle school did the same thing, then my high school did the same 4 classes for the first half of the year, then the other 4 classes for the other half of the year.
Same here. We often got our lunch at the 7-11 up the block from school. I can't imagine being locked in a cafeteria for the entire lunch and not being allowed to walk around outside...that's bizarre.
I'm also from the same area the girl in the video is from (Toronto, Ontario) and I can tell you this much, it all depends on what school you go to for the behavior of the teens there. A lot of the misbehaving students get suspended, and then eventually moved to a nearby alternative school where you basically just get a mix of students with special needs and the ones who skip class a lot/get into fights, etc. And depending on what school you're at, detention is usually at lunch (you can't go out for lunch that day and have to eat lunch at school in a quiet room) or for maximum 15 minutes after school if you don't take a school bus home. There is also a lot of students will come back late from lunch, do things like smoke weed in the bathroom, etc, but they of course get in trouble for it and will get calls home and stuff. Though, for the weed and smoking thing a lot of schools don't care if you do it off property, especially once you get to grade 12 and are 18 (the legal drinking/smoking age in Canada is 18-19). Also, we play O'Canada over the PA system every morning right before starting classes for the day and the most you have to do it stand up until it's over. Although if you're Native, you aren't required to stand.
I also wanted to point out that in Ontario, we also have the OSSLT along the EQAO, however the OSSLT is a general literacy based test only taken once in 10th grade. It is meant to test your knowledge unlike the EQAO. It is needed in Ontario to pass to graduate. It's extremely straightforward though
That was the year I went to grade 9, 2000. Back when the teachers didn't strike for a raise, they striked to get a better curriculum. Sucked for me cause grade 9 was hard. You also had to do 40 hours community service
Grade 10 OSSLT is an EQOA standardized test, along with Grade 3 and 6 math and literacy, and grade 9 Math. The "literacy requirement" can also be completed through the OSSLC for graduation.
Back in my days in Hight School there were general and advanced levels in each year, those generally scoring lower % would be in general. Advanced for the more intelligent. We also did math in our heads, only allowed calculators during exams for General levels. No computers existed. I skipped French through all of high school. We also had grade 13 as an option and graduating from grade 12 required 28 credits. Each passed class was a credit with math, history, science, etc being mandatory. We did have shop classes, like wood working, auto class in the regular high school. But of course, I graduated high school in 1979. There is also not the pressure from parents to attend college or university after high school.
I got a BA in Canada followed by an MA in Canada. I got an MBA in the USA. In comparison to the MA, the MBA was a cake walk. 80 is an A in Canada but it is way tougher. The definition of a 90 is usually something like the work makes a contribution to the field.
@@scholarlyanalyst7700 - I took a very wide ranging BA that put me in good stead for the GREs. I got a full scholarship for my MA. The toughest courses were stats and neuro but every course in the BA and MA was really satisfying.
As a (Grade 11) Junior in a Canadian high school, I can say that our grading system varies province to province. Here in British Columbia, and A is anything above 86%, a B is from 73-85%, a C+ is anything from a 67-72%, a C is 60-66%, a C- is 50-59%. an F is anything below 50%.
I had an American pen pal way back in my high school years in France and when we exchanged our time tables I was shocked by how much time was scheduled for sport and how important the teams were.
I'm pretty sure that the reason American schools have school nurses and Canadian schools don't is because of our free healthcare system. In the States they probably want to make sure all students have access to some sort of healthcare while at school even if the child's parents don't have coverage. Whereas if you get sick or injured at school to the point where you need a nurse in Canada, they would just call your parents, an ambulance or you would just go to the nearest free clinic or hospital depending on how bad your ailment is. If you just scrape your knee or get hit with a ball or something the office will give you a bandaid or ice and send you on your way. It also might be the lawsuit culture in the states, so to protect against the school getting sued for not doing the right thing when a kid is sick or injured, they have the nurse there to check kids out just to be safe and I suppose use them as a scapegoat if need be lol.
Learning French where I live (Saskatchewan, central canada) can be done 2 ways. U can learn it as a subject along with your other classes for a few years. Or you can choose to go to a school that is French immersion. Meaning everything you learn is in French. I only ever had the classes. My best friend did this as well during elementary school, but went into French immersion in high school as an elective. She still knows French and can converse somewhat to this day although she doesn’t use it much. I maybe know a few phrases here and there…. Kinda wish I’d done immersion tbh.
We have that in Nova Scotia too! I took immersion and then dated an Acadian for 5 years, I can barely hold a decent conversation anymore in French because I haven't practiced it since my mid 20s. Unless you plan on a government job, or are living in a heavy French speaking area, its not super worth it. Mainly, I just gained a new variety of swear words I keep in rotation
@@nicholesnow ya that’s the way I feel too. Not overly worth it for where I live. Although it would open other doors to jobs potentially. Wow! Acadian French is VERY different. I was on the east coast and was around people speaking Acadian French. I couldn’t understand a single word.
High school hierarchy existed in Canada when I was in high school (which was a very long time ago) but mostly just for kids in grade 9 who were referred to as 9er's.
Where (and when) I grew up in Calgary, Alberta we had kindergarten, elementary school (grade 1-6), Jr. High school (7-9) High school (10-12). No homecoming and we call it grad (graduation) not prom. There were various dances starting in grade 7 but they were always informal except maybe Christmas or other seasonal celebrations. When I was in elementary school, French was part of our curriculum from grade 4-6. Once in Jr. High, it was optional but the classes were small because nobody wanted it lol. I went home for lunch from grade 1 thru 12. I never ate at school unless it was blizzarding and we had a snack shack to buy foods to eat on the gymnasium floor. In high school there was a cafeteria open during all school hours. We sang Oh Canada and God Save the Queen only at the beginning of big assemblies in the gymnasium, where the entire school gathered (or sometimes just certain grades). I’m not sure when this gal recorded this video but in Ontario where she lived minimum wage increased on Jan 1, 2022 to $15/hr and again it just increased on Oct 1 to $15.50 / hour.
Some junior high schools have hockey teams but not all of them. I don't know any high school teams with hockey teams. But we have hockey leagues outside schools in Canada. That's probably why.
The importance of football and cheerleading in Canada is also somewhat a product of the era as well. I'm quite a bit older from Toronto, and our football team was a BIG deal (we were Metro champions at one point) but funding cutbacks seemed to kill it off and we lost our team about 15-20 years ago as did many other schools in our area.
In my highschool in Ontario we had a homecoming. There was a parade, a football game (though I don't think people paid so much attention to the game nor the cheerleaders), and a big field party afterwards where all the students partied. I don't remember a school dance.
I'm surprised she didn't even mention French Immersion schools. In Saskatoon, Saskatchewan we have a couple French Immersion schools where you send your English-speaking children and they teach them like regular school but they only speak in French. The kids are fully immersed in French and have no choice but to become fluent. I knew a lot of people in high school that were "Frenchies" we called them and they were weird and very cliquey. They dressed and acted totally different.
We have those kinds of schools in the USA too. My cousin attends s French one in New Orleans. I went to Spanish immersion for seven years. They don’t teach any English until second grade then after that we do all our subjects in Spanish and take English class. I’m aware of Mandarin schools like this too.
@@waynebilbrough9990 I was in French immersion and the English kids thought they were better than us. We were the oldest group for FI at our school though and got new textbooks and materials every year while there's was so old though (split class and we spent time with them when EQAO came around).
So here in British Columbia we have many many French immersion schools and all my children went to French Immersion school. What I can tell you about them is that The French kids tended to stick with the French kids until they got into middle school and the English kids stuck with the English kids till they got into middle school Then they all played together. The French kids usually had more involved parents than the English kids so the French kids were very high achieving And in elementary school the French kids thought they were slightly better than this kid's lol but as they got older all became friends. Those are the only differences I saw, for the most part they were from all walks of life. Also my kids are spaced apart almost in 2 different generations and this was all the same in both generations of French Immersion in British Columbia but in 2 different cities.
Also, for the postsecondary diploma program I went into as an adult here in Canada, I did not need to have graduated high school. All I needed was the prerequisite, which was grade 12 English. Other programs needed grade 11 math. I could then bridge that into a Bachelor's program without even ever needing to have a high school diploma.
In Québec, there are no letter marks (or at least there wasn't when I was in school), we just used the %age. There's also 6 years of elementary (7 if you count Kindergarden), and 5 of high school, 3 or 4 yrs of college depending on your path, and then 2-4 years in University, again depending on what you chose. No terms for Solfmore/freshman etc in French. And the reason Cheerleading isn't really a big deal in Canada, there's no cheerleaders in Hockey :P The hockey leagues at that age have nothing to do with schools, the teams are per city, not per shcool. My school had a nurse, but most times it wasn't the only thing that person did, it coulda been a First Aid trained office person that acts as a nurse if needed. in Québec we also had english classes starting in grade 4 all the way to level 5 of high school...
College (CÉGEP) is 2 years for a pre-university program, 3-4 for a tech program :) by the first year of university quebec and the rest of Canada have 13 years of schooling
I just want to say, I am a Canadian. I grew up here in Canada. I keep hearing how French is mandatory. It's not. I've never learned French, and it's never been a requirement to learn a second language. Our science classes are different. What we learn in Highschool science (Physics, Biology, Chemistry) is early post secondary for the USA.
It's a requirement to learn a second language if you want to directly enter a university-level program that doesn't specifically exclude a grade 11 language score. But that's what college, upgrading programs, and mature entry are all for, right? My sister didn't take French after 5th grade and she's a teacher with a Master's now. She started her post-secondary studies at a college that didn't require a language. Fortunately for her that college became a fully accredited university part way through her studies and she was able to finish her full degree there.
@@WYLNXCA I don't think that's true across all of Canada, you've only listed 2 British Columbia schools, but those do happen to be the 2 I applied to in 12th grade and my sister and I both attended SFU.
Depends on the province you're in. In Ontario has been mandatory to take French grades 4-9 for quite some time. In my school board we started in grade 1. However, I had friends who were exempt, including one friend who came to Ontario later from Alberta. My family is anglophone from Quebec and my uncle never graduated high school because he couldn't pass grade 11 French.
I got really far into adulthood until I realized that American movies and TV series about high school were any more realistic than American action films
I'm also in Ontario and in my city, Ottawa, there are designated schools within the public school board that have a gifted program. It's offered from grade one through to grade 12 although in the primary school setting, specifically grades one to six, there are not nearly enough spaces to keep up with the demand. It gets better in middle and high school.
Hi Kathie. Americans will be confused about the term 'gifted'. Sometimes, even I am confused. (London dad.) I have a daughter who is somewhat neurologically disabled. Sweetest kindest young woman ever. She got the label 'gifted' early. To me, (dad of 5 - Katie is/ a twin); she is a gift. In America; gifted tends to mean brilliant with a high IQ.
Same! I’m also in Ottawa and there are also 2 public high schools that offer the IB program (application only though). I find that the gifted program is becoming less popular as in teachers aren’t as willing to send you there.
@@tjmcguire9417 Are you two talking about different thing? 'Exceptional Students' can get pulled out of class for special programming and experiences with the exact same description as Americans do.
I dislike the term "gifted" as well, they are hanging on to a name that the program was given at it's inception many years ago. And you're right, all children are gifted in some way. I used to say the same to my other children. For the purposes of this conversation I am referring to intellectually gifted when I was discussing schools and programs in the public school board here in Ottawa. Apologies for any confusion.
I graduated in British Colombia in 2005, so things could have changed a lot since then. We had junior high and high school, junior was from 8-10 and high school 11-12. If you did well in grade 9 nine you could have the option of going to the high school for grade 10 because some grade 11 students didn't pass all their grade 10 classes, so they just filled the classes that way. We got 2, 13 minute breaks, 1 before noon and 1 after and a 50 minute lunch break. We could leave the school grounds during break, but in my town there isn't much to do, so most kids just stayed. We had a lunch room, but had to bring our own lunches or eat candy/chips from the vending machine. Most people just sat around the school by lockers or wherever, in junior high my friends and me usually hung out in the cooking class because they had a microwave or in the stairwell. We used percentages, not grades and in grade 10 and 12 provincal exams were a big deal, basically fail that test, you failed the course. We had prom in grade 12, and if there was enough students that wanted to put on a dance, we would sometimes have a winter dance. At grad, we didn't walk across the stage to pick up your diploma, there was just a giant stack and you grabbed one. School started beginning of September and ended end of June. I took a provincal the day before grad, so sometimes people would go to graduation and find out in the summer, they failed. I think a lot has changed since then, I know kids get way more days off then I did.
Depends where you are and how old you are (regarding weather during your HS years). During mine here in central Alberta (Edmonton) winter started in September and ended in May spring happen in June summer July to August and fall August into September. (Point being we had 8 months of snow.). Again this was 30 years ago and the climate has changed since then.
@@kopitarrules southern Ontario. The same place I gather she is. March is coldish. April is all over, but by may it is warm. The problem is that it goes from 15-20 to 25-30+ very quickly. There is very little spring it quickly goes to full summer. Now southern Ontario in the summer is beautiful, but a little more transition..
In Quebec you take school in either English or French from kindergarten, if you take English then it's all day English with 1 class a day in french, grade 5 is required french immersion and from that point you can go to all day french classes after that. If you go the french route then it's all day french with an English class a day, followed by a year of English immersion and the ability to choose English or french. Also Quebec has CJEP which is essentially either finishing school or community college depending on your course load. We also started music classes in grade 2 with a recorder style flute, grade 5 and 6 we learn the ukelele then highschool we learn whatever instruments are available. One last thing from when I lived in Montreal, gymnastics is/was a basic part of most of my / my friends school lives, balance beam rings pommel horse stuff like that
Canadian here. She's right about the AP program not being available in all high schools; however, some schools here offer IB (international baccalaureate) which is the same thing but known internationally. I was a part-time IB student back in the day. That meant some of my classes were IB level and others were just regular high school level. Full-time IB looked too stressful because all your classes were IB level plus you had to write an extended essay at the end. Also, you had to do CAS (creative, activity, and service) hours. These are extracurricular activities consisting of something creative/artistic, activity/athletic, and community service. 25 hours of each and you had to do it outside of school hours. I barely made it out alive..lol
As a Canadian from British Columbia I graduated in 2001. My high school was more into basketball, volleyball and track and field. Yes we had a football team but it wasn't a big deal. And for detention we never had that if a student misbehaved we had to talk either the principal or councilor and depending on the severity of the problem you either had to do a report on what it was and how it was disrespectful and wrong, if it was a more severe ongoing issue you could get suspended from extra curricular activities, school outings or suspended from school for a few days.
Im from Nova Scotia. Our marks were always percentage. Never letters. We had honours roll and distinction roll for students with averages in 90s and 80s. Our transcript is marks from grade 10-12. Our school sports were definitly basketball, hockey, soccer but others too like volleyball, rugby. Oh Canada was played before the annoucements in the AM and we stood at our desks.
I'm canadian and moved around quite a bit. one thing about French studies in ontario it varies schoolboard to schoolboard, I think it's mandatory for them to start after it in grade 4 however I was learning core French starting kindergarten and when I moved cities in grade 4 they were just starting where I had 5 years of knowledge already. I'm surprised when talking about EQAO and standardized tests in Ontario she didn't mention the OSSLT which is literacy test you need 75% or higher on to pass- and you need it to graduate. In BC they have middle school, I can't quite remember which grades it was there, in Alberta they have junior high and 3 years of highschool. Quebec has 3 years highschool and then they can attend a cegep and then go to college or uni. AP isn't accepted in all universities it's only really a big thing in the states plus it costs more for us. I would also like for add detention does exist in select schools, one of my ontario elementary schools had it, you would basically spend a recess in a classroom with other kids from other grades in detention and stare at a white or blackboard with the sentence "think about what you've done". There are more rual areas in Canada so some schools are k-12 with one giant class catering to a large area. Often indigenous kids living on reserves don't get proper education (amongst other issues) and have to travel a long way to get to school or live away from home to go to school to get a proper education.
I went to high school in Quebec 2 1/2 years and in Florida 2 1/2 years (Im born in the US but grewup in Quebec) and it was veeeeery different !! I enjoyed both but the canadian system definately was more challenging. The US school I went to treated me like I was the smartest kid in the school (and dont forget, I had only been in french speaking schools at that point) which was very weird but I very much enjoyed how flexible the school was with my classes so it matched where I was really in my education (in 10th grade I was 13 years old, had 12th grade math and 11th grade english). In Qc you have to follow the herd which wasnt always easy. The Qc system of education is different from english speaking provinces so its still quite different from what this girl described 😅
Yes cause in Quebec u start high school in grade 7 which is actually called secondary 1 ( and theirs 5) then they go to cégep (which is I guess junior college) cause it’s something between high school and college/university
@@freshlyshaved5191 I was very lucky. I had two very good schools, my classmates were great and I had lots of fun in High School. As a teen I liked better how flexible the US school was and the schedules because we didn't leave everyday with loads of homework like in Quebec. BUT in Florida I felt very unsafe all the time because of people being armed and school shootings. And I hate the heat, so as an adult I'ld say I like canadian schools better 🙂
where i grew up in ontario: no prom homecoming was a parade and a party (not a dance) we had a winter formal called snow ball and that was the only formal people really went to bc drinking culture was big and the police would give you breathalizers and check your bag bf you could get into the school, and you weren't allowed at your lockers. people did get pretty formal though. most big celebrations were organized by students as "field parties". there would be a big bonfire and music played out of a truck grad was called "safe grad". also breathalized and bag checked, but it was in the arena and there were so so so many activities to do (glow bowling, poker, dancing, sumo wrestling, gladiator courses, etc.) football wasn't big, nor cheerleaders, but hockey definitely was and hockey players were treated a lot like football players
Just an FYI, the schooling system in Quebec is completely different to the rest of the provinces. We have 6 years of elementary school, and 5 years of highschool. Then we have 2-3 years of cegep, and then we can go to university if we wish. In other provinces, it is only college after highschool which is university. Cegep in quebec is like a bridge between highschool and university, We also have something called a DEP (like a trades program), People are typically eligible for this if they have at least the first 4 years of highschool completed. Careers like secretaries, mechanics, hairdressers, chefs, bakers.... are all DEPs. We also don't have ABC grades after the first few years of school, it is all number grades from there. We also have second-language english classes from elementary school all the way up to college. I've also been to many schools and have never been to one that had a football team or cheerleaders lol. One school had a volleyball team and one had a basketball team but that was it.
I went to school in Alberta. We had tests called PATs that you did in grades 3,6,9 and 12. The grade 12 one at the time was worth 50% of your final mark in each class. Some schools had AP programs where others had IB programs. Smaller schools might have not had anything. My high school had a cheer team and would go to competitions and even went to Hawaii. My high school did not have a football team because I went to an arts school and there was not much interest. But other high schools in my city had football and students could try out for other schools. I have never heard of a school hockey team. I think it's difficult to get ice. Most students just sign up for hockey outside of school but it is a very expensive sport. Starting in grade 7 I was allowed to go anywhere for lunch. High school I had zero dances. I had graduation but there wasn't much dance. Jr high I had a dance for every holiday (Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day). Here jr high is 7-9 and high school is 10-12 but there are some schools that are different. I had detention in jr high but not for high school. I guess it depends on the school and how strict they want to be. My high school had no dress code only thing was you couldn't wear hats in the theatre. This again because I went to an arts school.
I'm also from Alberta and I went to middle school from gr.6-8 and high-school was 8-12 and we didn't have detention in either, I wonder if this is because we're from different areas of Alberta or because we did our schooling at different times maybe?
Here in Alberta, the grades are K-6 (elementary), 7-9 (Junior high), and high school (10 - 12). The marks universities look at most are your core courses - English, Math, Social Studies, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. We also do not use freshman, sophomore and similar terms for students, you're just Grade 9, Grade 10, etc. I've also never heard those terms in university either, and it took me a long time to figure them out. As she noted, there are also no SATs here in Canada, although a handful of Canadian students may take them if they are hoping to go to a school in the US. However, Alberta does have 'Diploma exams' which are standardized province-wide tests in your core subjects, and which count for 20% of your final grade. When I was in high school back in the day, they counted for 50% of your final mark, so they were pretty nerve-wracking for a lot of people. Learning French is optional in Alberta, although most of the smart kids will take it as it looks good on your university application. High school sports are really only considered important for student athletes looking for a sports scholarship to a US school. Football games here are played on a regular field, not in a stadium, and only a handful of fans may show up for the games, aside from the city championship, which might get a few hundred fans. I find it bizarre that freedom-loving USA don't allow kids to leave the school at lunchtime - as far back as junior high, we walked to the mall, 7/11, or nearby fast food joint at lunchtime.
I'm a Canadian from Toronto that graduated high school about 25 years ago. I'm also finding it interesting to find out how things have changed since then (since I don't have kids and I don't work in education so I had no reason to keep up with how high school works). Biggest change is that when I went, we still had a 5th year of high school (was called Ontario Academic Credits [OAC] only required for students intending to go to university). Admission to university was solely based on your OAC 5th year grades.
The extra year was intended to be equivalent to the first year of university, so you could get a general degree in three years and an honours degree in four. However, you can still get a general degree in three and an honours degree in four, so maybe you and I were robbed of a year of job income.
@@johnfitzgerald7618 I had been under the impression they got rid of the three-year general university degree when they got rid of OAC. Ugh... sounds like we really were robbed of a year of income!
I'm a Canadian & can say that the different levels in a high school is grades 9 - 10 are Juniors as the grades 11 -12 are Seniors in Ontario, now there are circumstances when a student has excelled so well in their 1st year of high school of grade 9 Junior ADVANCES to grade 10 Senior. That is in the province of Ontario. The marks on report cards do have percentages of 20% is D- to 100% is A+, that was when I had attended high school of 1985 to 1989. The Ministry of Education with the school boards had upgraded the system with proficiency tests in many subjects from to literacy to mathematics in the last 12 to 15 years in Ontario.
I can't speak for the rest of Canada but as someone who lives and was raised in Toronto all my life too. We use both grades and marks but usually marks is for like "what mark did you get?" and she is right, 80 is indeed an A. I got 80% in my top 6 senior courses and got an Ontario scholar award 🥵 (So she is also right on how we calculate percentages for uni) If you counted my 9th grade marks for uni OH DEARY ME 😖
Its so weird to think about how different marks are throughout provinces. Where I go to school we have 1-4+ 4+ (95+) 4 (87-94) 3+ (around 75-86) 3 (60-74) 2 (50-60) and a 1 basically means you didn’t turn anything in, or you didn’t show up You need a 60 to pass
I’m like a year late. I went to school in both Alberta and BC. I don’t really remember the grade marking with A, B etc. Each province and territory have their own rules with schooling. It falls under the provincial government. Rather than federal.
In Québec, every student starts to learn a second language in primary school. French kids learn english and english have to learn french. Then, they study the second language every year during high school. At the end, they have to be able to sustain a normal conversation in the second language you studied. Education is a provincial power and that explain why it is different in every provinces.
American grades might appear more strict but the course material is usually more difficult in Canada. The cirriculum is standard across the entire province. In Alberta all grade 12s write the same final exam.
What do you mean “same final exam”? Every class has a final exam. A math final, an English final, a science final, a math final, a bio final. Whatever electives you’ve chosen, each have a final exam for that class. There isn’t just one exam to graduate.
I'm also from Canada, Ontario and my schooling experience is slightly different from what she has explained, probably because the system has changed from when I graduated in 2008. I took French Immersion from Kindergarten until grade 12. This meant that I took varying courses in French and English throughout my schooling experience. In fact, one year I might do Math in French, then the next year in English; not going to lie it could be confusing sometimes. Also, in High School we had Applied and Academic courses, Applied courses were more hands on and aimed towards College while Academic courses were more focused on analytical skills aimed towards University. AH! We had detention at my high school but you were more likely to get a warning first, then detention, then suspension. Nobody really wanted to get detention as it was an after school thing and your parents would have to come and get you because school buses weren't running anymore, so you'd get in trouble for whatever you did at school that gave you detention in the first place AND the fact that your parents had to make an extra trip to get you. lol
When you start learning french is very dependant on where in Canada you are. I moved around Ontario a lot, and in one place French started in Junior Kindergarten, another city I lived in they started in grade 4, and another was grade 2. In Ontario it seemed to be the further north you were, the earlier you learn French.
Pertaining to school detention, you may want to do a video on the the difference between the corrections systems (prisons and correctional services). The US had a much more punitive mindset as opposed to rehabilitation in Canada. This difference of mindset seems to start even in the way schools handle misbehaving students. I think it is a good reflection on some of the cultural differences that may ultimately explain many behavioural patterns. there is also a difference in the practice of law (i.e. leading to incarceration), where the US applies the "letter" of the law whereas Canada applies the "spirit" of the law.
We have been moving towards a more American system of the letter of law. Having said that, the spirit of law is still our way. Having been in jail I can say with absolute certainty that rehabilitation is the first thing. We do warehouse criminals, but we also have a huge number of social workers as guards in the system. The ultimate in rehabilitation in BC is Guthrie house at Brendon lake.
Canada you can go out and murder 10 children in cold blood and you won't even do 10 years in jail. Our justice system is a joke. Look at the guy recently stabbed a bunch of people with a record of 142 charges. 5 times charged with beating his wife. America does it right
Grades in Québec are in percentages. No letters in highschool. Also, our elementary (primary) school is 6 years (not counting kindergarden) and highschool (secondary school) is five years. So we have 11 years in total (primary 1 to 6, and secondary 1 to five - we don't say 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th grade). After that we have cégep (a college - not a university) which is 2 to 3 years before university (3 to 4 years a bachelor, 2 to 4 years a master, and 4+ years a doctorate). The cégep "grades" are converted into a yield score called R-score (or cote-r in French - r stands for "rendement" which means "yield"), universities use that score insted of "raw" grades which makes it more competitive. We only have prom in Québec and isn't really a thing either. Highschool sports are not a thing either in Québec, we have some, but not really popular. We have detention rooms, but they are rarely used. They have a good talk we teachers or the principal several times before ending there. Suspensions are only a thing if you're really violent here. We don't have AP programs here. We have "enriched" classes for those who have better grades, you would never be allowed to take cégep or university classes without a highscool diploma. In Québec we do have school nurses and even psychologists. We also have specialists for special education in almost every school. In Québec, English as a second language is mandatory from grade one all the way to university. But you're allowed to take another language at the same time (the most popular are Spanish and German). I didn't take other language classes because I took extra math and science classes.
As far as discipline goes, when I was in high school ('89 - '91) there was detention, probation, and suspensions. Talking it out seems to be the new thing now. As for the distinction between college/university, you go to college to learn to be a Veterinary Assistant, Plumber, Car Mechanic, Homecare worker, etc You go to University to get a Bachelor's degree, Masters, Doctorate. Teachers are very well paid in Canada - $43,000.00 Cdn according to Google. Enjoying this channel a lot, learning lots about my country and the US. :)
A lot of it depends on geography. I had to bus 20 miles to my high school, so if I were to be held for a detention, the school would have had to kidnap me for the night.
20:00 (No school nurse in Canada). Well, we had a small nursing station for emergencies, with a cot for an ill student to lie down on (I may have BSed my way into a late morning nap once or twice. ^_^) but any First Aid was applied by another member of the faculty who was FA certified. That definitely included all the gym teachers and the main office secretary (nurse station was behind her office). Keep in mind, this is CANADA. If your kids are sick, as a parent, you can take them to a doctor, clinic, or hospital for free, anytime. We don't really need a full-time, Registered Nurse at the school to pick up the slack.
In Canada Universities are the only ones allowed to give out degrees (ie Bachelor, Master, PHD, etc). Where things might get confusing is that many universities have colleges attached that run degree programs for the universities. eg you go to King's College but your degree is given by University of Western Ontario. A senior college might also get its own university charter so they can issue degrees on their own but are still referred informally by their old 'college' name.
@@GPatch Yeah, I phrased it badly and some of the stuff I said might be a tad out of date. Since 2001 a number of non-affiliated colleges have been granted degree granting authority by the government.
In BC in the late 60s the only exams that I remember writing that were common to all schools in the province were the optional Grade 12 scholarship exams. I had to write at least two exams in subjects of my choice. I chose to write 3 exams, (Math, Chem. and French); they averaged the marks in the top two and awarded my scholarship accordingly - 75% of first year university tuition for First class marks (80% and above). There were other grade 12 exams to determine if you graduated and had sufficient grades to attend university. As far as lunch time, we got a full hour and the town was quite small, so most of the kids went home for lunch. For those kids that lived a mile away, there was a designated class room where they had lunch. There was no cafeteria, they brought lunch from home.
being from canada, i agree with the final year to get into university. how mature are u going into high school? and ur not thinking in the long-term as a kid. in grade 12 u know u have to really buckle down
Dated a girl from Connecticut in HS for 3 years as a Canadian (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario & Michigan, split by the CanUS border) Most of what she was saying brought back memories. I didnt know what a sophomore was, and she thought it was weird I called it Grades 9-12. She had 8 classes a day for 45 minutes each I believe, where I had 4 classes that were 90 minutes each. We don't have SAT's, but in Ontario you must pass "The Literacy Test" or The OSSLT in 10th grade to prove that you're meeting the minimum standard for literacy. If you fail the literacy test your Grade 11 English will be replaced with an english course more suited to catching you up and being able to pass the test next year, since you cannot graduate without passing the literacy test.
And Québec is completely different from English Canada. We use Primary/secondary and then College and then University. So preschool is 5-6 year olds. Then Primary is 1 to 6th grade. Then Secondary is again 1 to 5 th. Then you go to college for 2 years to get to UNI or 3 years to get a trade (technical college). You can then also decide to head to University. In Québec we do not use A grades we use % only.
Adding... We start English in 1st grade and we have it all the way through college. And passing is required in order to pass secondary school and College.
@@highstreetkillers4377 why?...university is not for everyone...so if you can go to cegep after school while you still young it helps alot...I think Québec students are then much more mature when they decide to go to university..they not as childish to go to all the parties as they have had three to two years ahead start to being free....again most student others will always be childish. I think its a way for the government to get as many trades people into the market as soon as possible...nurses, teachers aids, welders and so on....the only thing I can see is that kids grow up faster here...maybe not so good not sure yet
I'm Canadian and have been out of school for over 40 yrs. When I went to high school we only had to take French for 3 months in grade 8. After that it was your choice if you wanted to take it. I'm in B.C. and our biggest sport in the winter was either basketball or skiing.
At the high school I went to they have an “iB” program, it’s for students who have achieved a grade that is a 92+(A+), I had a girl in my geography, math, and English class that had a 95 in geo, a 92 in English, and a 97 in math…. She quickly got switched to the “iB” program because of those grades at the end of the semester
Back in the late 70’s we only got French in grades seven and eight ( 2 periods a week) In high school, we had to take it for grades 9 and 10. ( 5 periods a week). Good that they have expanded the curriculum! Stay safe, stay sane, stay Strong
Actually French is not mandatory in schools. At least the catholic highschool I went to growing up in Sask, rather than take regular classes taught in English, students could opt for basic classes taught in French immersion, or you just take French as an elective. Not required. And in elementary school, for some reason they gave the parents a choice to either have their kids take a French class or a Native Studies class. In high school Native Studies was offered as an elective as was Spanish.
not in my day. Didnt start french till grade 4 to 9. In Quebec English high school it's madatory. And you're expected to know french so grade 10 and 11 was playing cards while the teacher read newspaper. They don't want English kids to succeed in Quebec. I got 98% in science and math but never got my diploma cause I didn't pass french. My final exam I grade 11 was a 10 minute debate on ecology, lol. I just said every french word I knew which took 2 minutes. They gave me a fail of 59% to keep their school from looking bad. I should've gotten a 2%
@@highstreetkillers4377 And you think French kids having to learn English isn't also a disadvantage for some? A certain level of English is obligatory in University otherwise you have to take extra classes at University prices even if your BA has nothing to do with English and even after aaaaall the obligatory English classes we get from elementary school through Cegep. No need to make it political here. I sucked at math and it cost me more advanced English classes, am I oppressed by the government for it? No. Now if your high school teacher wasn't even teaching French, that's the school's problem, not the province's fault. Also, learning a second language is extremely enriching in life. It opens doors, it makes you learn about linguistic in a manner your mother tongue can't really provide you of the same experience. It gives you an insight in cultural aspects of the people using that language that you wouldn't get otherwise. Not to mention how great it is for your brain. I do think every country should make monumental effort to teach a second language to their kids with fluency in mind. Obviously not all will achieve it, but those who will will cherish it. Mayhaps language isn't your forte or you felt so wronged having to learn French that you just didn't put the effort in it. Math and Science wasn't my cup of tea and it cost me 1 summer and entry in some universities for a BA in the psychology field, but I pushed through nonetheless. Those damn science nerds don't want me to succeed in life...smh
@@TheAnnez0r You are so right, learning another language is enriching. Your brain is improved by learning different subjects. Kids saying that why do I have to learn this if I don't need it. Even so, your brain and learning is enhanced.
Canadian here; when I was in high school I was such a argumentative little contrarian, at one point I didn’t stand up for the national anthem (they play it over the speakers and everyone stands in silence), my teacher tried to send me to the principals office but it’s actually in the rule book that students do not actually have to participate in the national anthem and I didn’t get in trouble. I’ve grown up a lot since then, but that was a fun little win for 15yr old me (‾ʖ̫‾)
That could be difficult because there would be no party in Canada to compare the Republicans to. You may make a case of comparing the Conservatives to the Democrats but since the Conservative party in Canada is for universal health care they would be to the left of most Democratic politicians.
@@2727rogers It's interesting that Canada had six parties compete in the last federal election, while the U.S. only has two. Not only that, but both U.S. parties are broadly speaking liberal, although the Republicans are closer to classical liberalism, while the Democrats are closer to social liberalism.
@@nickd4310 I guess what is Liberal in the US compared to what is Liberal in Canada is completely different. Both of the parties in the US would not be considered Liberal in any way. Neither even come close to what the voters actually want. Never have and it looks like in the near future they will never be. This explains the pitiful voter turn outs in your elections. To most people there is no actual choice.
@@2727rogers The historical meaning of the liberal, which is used in political science, is support of capitalism, individualism, equality and constitutional government. The U.S. is unique in that all major parties have always been founded on these principles and the debate is about what they mean and how best to achieve them. FDR used the terms liberal and conservative as a way of demeaning his opponents, which is when they came into use with their modern meaning. Canadians have also adopted this terminology to a great extent.
@@nickd4310 I would agree that is a definition of Lberal but even by that definition neither the Republicans nor Democrats would be considered Liberal.
It depends where you live in Canada. In Ontario high school starts at grade 9. Junior high in Ontario is grade 7 and 8. But in Alberta junior high school starts at grade 7 to 9. 3 years. And high school starts at grade 10 to 12. So different. Some places have middle school which starts at grade 6 to 8 I think. But we don't have that in Alberta that I am aware of.
The scores resulting in grades are different across the country. Universities grant degrees (Bachelor, Masters, PhD) where colleges grant diplomas, certificates, and some job training programs. Some colleges have courses that are accepted at universities towards the first 2 years of a Bachelor degree.
Proof that americans don't even understand basic math , A,B,C,D,F or 12,3,4,5 so , it's 100 divided by 5 = 20 , so 5 is 20 4 is 20 3 is 20 2 is 20 and 1 is 20, according to value sharing , you could divide within the 20's for + and - , but , this is BASIC math , In the U.S as a Canadian student who moved there as an 11 year old , I was doing 5th grade math in High school in the U.S, complete $hit show ...it's called the dumbing down of multi generations , the U.S encourages foreigners to come here for talent because , you know , they can't vote ,
@@SilvanaDil worlds first liver transplant , Canada , world's first kidney transplant , Canada , Insulin , Canada , first lung transplant Canada there are hundreds of medical firsts in Canada , we dont treat illnesses , we cure them , U.S just turns everyone into pill junkies ... Oxford isn't in the U.S , Cambridge isn't in the U.S McGill isn't in the U.S oh , and many of the finest professors in Ivy league schools Canadians ....LOL, space science , Canadians , the pressurized space suit , Canadian , space vacuum hydraulics , Canadian , rocket engineers for NASA for Mercury , Apollo space shuttle even Spacex . Canadians , all the finest schools in the U.S have professors from other countries ,because americans are too stupid to teach ..The U.S is only good at one thing , and one thing only ok 2 things war and domestic violence
I’ll like to add, that as in anything, Quebec is once again different. We have secondary school instead of high school that goes from grade 1 to 5. That takes you to 11 grade. Then you have CÉGEP (college) where you have two options: a 2 year pre-university degree (that covers 12th grade and the first year of university) or technical degrees mostly for trades or firefighter, police officers and nurses. The interesting part is that they cost like 300$/year… After that universities offer 3 or 4 year programs for a bachelor’s. (Teacher is a 4 year program). From what I understand if someone from the US or another province wants to come to study here, say to McGill university in Montreal, they have to do an extra year before starting some programs because of the extra year we do in CÉGEP. Also university can’t cost more than 1800$/semester… there are no private universities here… and there is financial aid for those who need it that cover’s the cost.
Hi! I'm from around Montreal, Quebec, so I will provide info on Quebec's public school system. - Preschool (maternelle) will be for 4 and 5 years old. - Primary school (primaire) - grades primary 1 to 6 - will be for 6 to 12 years old students. - Secondary - Highschool (secondaire) - grades secondary 1 to 5 - will be for 12 to 17 (could go to 18) years old students. - CEGEP - General and Professional Education College (CÉGEP - Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel) will be for 17 years old or more students. Students are awarded a DEC - Diploma of College Studies (or Diplôme d'études collégiales, DEC) which is needed to apply for University. - University (Université) variable age. - We do not have AP classes in Quebec. - Sports - Yes we do have competing sports in our secondary schools, but football will not always be the main one. There's also (in no particular order) basketball, volleyball, handball, soccer, badminton, tennis, golf, lacross. Members of those teams and the Chearleaders are not put up as rulers of the schools, they are just participants to after school sports. The coaches will usually be Gym class teachers or other teachers. - Nurses - It will depend on the school or how big the school is. Other schools will have a nurse visiting 2 or 3 times a week. - English/French classes - Second language classes are given from the first to the 6th grades of the of the primary. Students will have 1 or 2 sessions per week. For the secondary/highschool students, they will 3 sessions of secondary language. Some secondary schools/highschools will have intensive English programs. The school year will be split in two; 5 month in English and 5 month in French. - If asked in what grade you are (or your child is), in Quebec we will say "Primary first, second... sixth", or "Secondary first, second... fifth". There are no grades in the CEGEPs. - Yep! In Quebec we do not pledge allegiance to the flag in the schools. But do not get me wrong, we do love our Country and Province and we are prepared to defend them. - In USA, I'm pretty sure that football and basketball coaches are paid more than the teachers. Good job Shandy. 👍 Cheers! 😉
In general the more highly populated cities, (IE: Toronto) elementary school in Canada run from kindergarten to grade 6, junior high or middle school runs from grades 7-8, some middle schools grades 7,8 and 9, and high school runs from grades 9,-12. smaller cities and towns primary school (grade JK to grade 8) and secondary school (grade 9 to 12)
In my experience as a born-and-raised Canadian and educator in the Canadian system, letter grading (ie. A+, A, A-, B+, B, etc.) is not common nation-wide. Percentages and fraction grades are typically the standard, nationally-speaking, and letter grading is secondary to percentages. In other provinces outside of Ontario, universities and colleges also consider the percentage average of grades 10, 11 and 12. They average percentage grades of core curriculum classes and pre-requisital subjects (ie. english, math, biology, chemistry, history, etc.), as well as a select number of the highest graded electives of the student (eg. French, photography, drama, band, art, carpentry, psychology, robotics, etc.). Standardized testing does take place periodically throughout a student's entire education experience before post-secondary in order to make sure that the education system set in place is currently working and benefiting the students. There is no university or college entrance exam in Canada, like the girl mentioned. Most high schools have footballs teams, but she is right, it is taken as seriously as any other sport. As for hockey, I have only seen hockey teams in very few schools. I have never seen a detention program in Canadian schools, either. I have only seen and participated in counselling sessions with misbehaving students, where a conversation is held between the teacher and student, sometimes a school counsellor and student, and if things are really bad, among the student, their parents and an educator. Suspensions and expulsions are typically last resort solutions. Though there may not be a school nurse in a high school, there is usually a nurse station or office, where an ill student can go to lie down, take a nap, calm down in a private room, or receive medical attention from a teacher. Regarding core French language education in Anglo-Canada, it is my experience that it is not an overly effective system, despite the fact that the language is taught for years in elementary school. Most students do not retain much French knowledge or even seem to care to learn the language at that age, which sometimes results in students not wanting to take French in high school, but rather no language classes, or alternative ones like German, Japanese or Spanish (it depends on what is available at the school, of course). Excellent video! Shandy did a great job in her comparison and this video by Tyler is very enlightening. Thanks for making it. :)
24:00 (The difference between college and universities in Canada) (because she didn't elaborate, and Tyler asked). Colleges are typically 3-year programs, and focused on more practical and trade-based fields. Universities are typically 4-year programs, and focused a bit more on the higher academic, more theory-based fields. Basically where you will go depends very much on what sort of career you're planning on having after. There might be another big difference, but someone else might have to explain this one to ME! I was watching another video where US college students were being quizzed. Most of the freshman asked what they wanted to study there responded with "I dunno" or "I haven't decided." That confused me quite a bit. Do US college students really apply to college and begin attending with no specific career path in mind? In Canada, you have to pick the program leading to earning the degree or diploma you'll need for your later career as you apply to the college. "What are you here to study?" is a decision already made before they set foot on the campus for the first time (and indeed, might be the main factor in choosing which post-secondary institution to attend). Granted, students do sometimes change their mind and swich programs (as they learn more about what their hoped-for career is really like) but you can't attend a Canadian college or university to study "something to be determined later". How would you know which classes you need to take? If you're not in a specific program, what is the first year of a US college for, academically speaking?
She should have explained the difference between College and University in Canada. College typically focus on specific employment skills, career training, and trades. These courses are typically 1-3 year certificates, diplomas or advanced diplomas. Although, more and more are also offering 4-year degree programs and hybrid diploma/degree programs with Universities. Universities in Canada are degree-granting institutions that provide bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. Universities typically focus on analytical skills (the ability to understand and use information), and academic and professional programs.
I came to the comments to say just this. I've done both in Canada, and there is a distinct difference between colleges and universities.
Just a bit of clarification. Colleges in Ontario specifically, can offer their own 4 year degrees with no affiliation with a University. In other words, you can get a 4-year degree at an Ontario college not tied to any of the universities.
Both are a waste of time, dummy factories. The actual difference is what the degree is called you get. You can't get a PHD in any college. Just like you can't get a bachelor degree in university.
I was wondering this, thanks for the info!
Can someone explain what a polytechnic institute is? Ryerson had this classification before switching to the university label.
My Canadian highschool (in rural Alberta) didn't use letters as grades, we just used the percentages. Like, my overall mark in a class would be 86%, not an A or B or anything like that. We also never had dances like prom, but that's more of a culture thing. The EQAO sounds a lot like our PAT tests
Here in B.C we just do
Emerging
Developing
Proficient
Extending
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my Alberta highschool is like that too! yeah EQAQ is basically our PAT
EQAO is an ontario thing, and I wish they'd get rid of it. I don't know how it gives anyone valid data. It's supposed to be a test to check if the teachers are teaching properly and the kids are at the level they should be.
However when you have EQAO coming up, the teacher's spend a LOT of time prepping the kids. They do practice tests, they do practice work. Because they want to insure their class does well on the test. So this in fact will slant results, because the teachers are purposely trying to prep the students for these specific tests.
If they really wanted to get reliable data, they would select schools randomly, and give them surprise tests towards the end of the year.
Ya I looked up 75% and it's a C! That's crazy as a lot of kids are proud (fine with) of a 75. It seems far from pass (50) So 80% would probably be a B-
I have four daughters in high school in Canada(in Ontario as well) ...from grade 9-12. They don’t use the freshman/sophmore terms and we have very strict testing standards.Also our high schools are very safe...no metal detectors,no security guards and sports here are not a big thing like the US.We have teams but they aren’t money makers.Also we have a very high post secondary enrollment.Our grade system is lower because our schools are much harder than the US...it’s very hard to get an A here versus the US
in quebec it's even worst you need 60% to pass while it's 50% in ontario and if you take enriched welp...
Maybe it's different for the rest of Ontario but I where I live, Toronto, we actually do kinda use freshmen, sophomore, etc, it's pretty common term just not always used
@@CaesarSaladeedeedee I lived 32 years in Toronto and went to H.S there so must be your school...I know we called grade 9s minor miners 😂
@@Aliali-yo1oh B.C it’s 60% as well.But B.C schools I felt were much easier than here Ontario as we lived there 10 years
freshman sophomore junior senior are American terms, I have never heard a Canadian use them. Canadian high school is 8-12 because we dont have middle schools here.
A friend of mine moved from Texas to Ontario in the 70's. She was put back from grade 10 to grade 9 due to the USA's lower standard of education. I remember her telling me high school was more difficult in Canada. Two years later she move to California and they put her ahead a grade as our grade 11 was equal to grade 12 there.
Meanwhile, Europe:
The biggest difference regarding her first point is that High Schools don't actually use the letter grade system. They only use marks/percentages. It doesn't matter if something is an A. It matters if it is a 95 or an 88 though.
Not true here. My kids school uses letter grades. Although not for elementary students anymore, only highschool.
@@goodgreenmolly on random tests and stuff but the official transcript won't say A or B. It will say 86 or 75.
@@FutureFire1990 1st it depends when and where you went to school. Each province may have different system and school was very different for people currently over 60, those over 25 and everyone below 25
@@daemok4752 official transcripts don't change. Only percentage grades are accepted by universities
@@FutureFire1990 guess you didn't get the memo yet... IN YOUR PROVINCE MAYBE but stop talking as if the whole country is using that system.
like for fuck sake, get a hint. Education is a provincial power under Canadian constitution, so we have 13 different versions to deal with.
How much of a jackass do you have to be to assume that everyone has been living a similar life to yours... get a clue before you speak. holy jeez !
I went to High school in Alberta. We had a lot of USA students from Texas, because their parents were sent to Canada to work for the Canadian branch of the International Oil and gas companies. The Texas students had 10% added to their grades when they went back to Texas because Canadian Schools mark so much harder than Canadian schools (it is not straight memorization, the student has to demonstrate teamwork, independent work and understanding and critical thinking about the material taught.
In Canada, Universities and Colleges also look at travel, sports experience, volunteer and/or work experience.
They don’t mark harder. They require more of students.
Imagine if they went to Ontario. High school curriculum in Alberta is equivalent to grades 6-8 in Ontario.
Hey! French Canadian from Quebec here.
The education system in Quebec is a bit different too. There's kindergarten, then 6 grades for elementary schools. Then 5 grades for highschool which we don't call grade 7-12, and actually call highschool grade 1-5.
Then before going to university, Quebec students will usually go to Cegep for either a 3 year technical program or a 2 year pre-university program. The technical programs unlock a lot of technical jobs but also provide access to university for further training and education. Then you have university where you have your typical certificate, bachelor, master and doctorate degrees.
Also, there are laws in regards to French education in order to preserve our historical language in a North American sea of English. These laws are sometimes amended/changed with new governments and are often debated during and out of election season (speaking of, today is election day in the Province of Quebec, and the most recent version of these laws were highly debated, so it might change). These laws say that non-english students have to succeed a universal French test in order to get their highschool or cegep degree. These laws also put a cap for english cegeps on the number of non-english students that can register with them.
Hope it helps
theses laws, even if they are unpopular to anglo, are the minimum to preserve the language and culture of 8 millions French Canadian
CEGEP is an acronym that stands for: Collège d'Enseignement Général Et Professionnel.
Which would translate to something like General and professional/vocational College.
Thanks so much for this info. I'm in Alberta and graduated in 1972 from High School. My information about Quebec schooling is not as up to date as it once was.
Here in Red Deer, though it may differ in other school districts, in Elementary Schools French is taught in Grade 2 and up. There also are French immersion schools and French /English Schools here. In 1962 when I was in school in Calgary, I was taught French starting in Grade 3. I was very conversational fluent after graduating, but not so much now. Haven't had to use French since I retired. I am trying to brush up now that travel is allowed.
@@OdinWannaBeYeah no, not letting French students study in English if they want to is not "preserving the language" its "affecting students' futures and what they want to do with their lives". The government should not get to decide how you live your life.
@@NightRainPanda if you go to quebec to study... do it in french, its way better and easier after to learn english. The problem is there, wanting to study in english in a province where the peoples ( 8 millions) speak french. You are just limiting your possibility because you don't want to learn ??
French can't survive against english without basic laws that any country or culture have. You hate something you dont understand. No laws will force you to speak french, its just common sense to do it if quebec want to be cohesive as a society.
Schooled my kids for 3 years in the states. I noticed a huge difference in the priority schools and families placed on sports. High schoolers getting ranked state-wide for their volleyball skills etc. It was explained to me that many people relay on sports to secure themselves scholarships for post-secondary education.
In Ontario, I overheard an American girl from Pennsylvania talking to an Australian about their time in Canada. She talked of how bored she was in her Pensylvania high school after she returned from spending 2 yrs in a Montreal, Quebec high school because the studies were much more advanced. The grade matters less than the level of knowledge you've attained to achieve it.
My granddaughter also said the same thing after attending school in both countries. She said she too was bored in the American school and thought the same grade in the American school was quite far behind compared to the same grade in a Canadian school. She was also surprised at how little American kids, and teachers, knew about Canada in general.
@@donnacerminara1788 Unfortunately it's a given that most Americans know next to nothing about Canada, their largest trading partner.
@@davemarchildon2583 The US is Canada's largest trading partner, but the reverse is not true. China is America's largest trading partner (although Canada is 2nd). Not that Americans know a lot about China either ;). In fact, Americans don't know much about...America. It's a weird state of affairs that I had to take a WHOLE YEAR of American History in grade 10 (it was pretty interesting and advanced, and covered American history from colonial times up until the Civil Rights movement) while many Americans don't even get that much of an education *in their own history* (let alone Canadian or European or Asian/African history). We also got a good grounding in geography, so I can still name all the states (without a map for reference) and about half of their capitals, and I graduated high school in 1999.
thanks volcano man
@@VoIcanomanI stand corrected. China imports/exports more.
I think the difference can also be attributed to our exposure to American television programing. I'm 60 and when I was a kid, there were iconic Canadian children's programs but that's it I think. We grew up on American sitcoms, movies and gameshows. No cable at the time - I have a soft spot for Buffalo, New York (just across lake Ontario) that gave us channel 24. Apart from the Canadian Broadcast Corp. (CBC) that provided National News and some well produced shows with low budgets and bad lighting, American programming was a massive influence and still is. Canada is usually at or near the top on the list most educated countries (completion of teriary education) overall however, with a more sophisticated, more balanced society. My family were talking to a man on a bus in San Diego who said this very thing. He spent 8 of his early years an hour away from us in Guelph, Ontario.
I was in high school in Ontario from 1997 to 2002. At that time we had Grade 13, also called OAC, which stands for Ontario Academic Credit. It was generally taken by kids who wanted to persue a University education. It wasn’t mandatory unless you wanted to go to University. OAC is gone now. These days it just goes to grade 12. Just a bit of Ontario Educational History.
You can take another year after grade 12 if you feel you are not quite ready or are missing courses before entering University. I know this because my daughter has done it. She was only 17 when she graduated high school and I thought she too young & needed a victory lap before entering University
@@cathyrivas6496 You can stay in HS until the age of 21
I was in high school in the seventies in Ontario and went to grade 13. Back then, grade 12 was for College but you needed grade 13 for University. We received a regular diploma for grade 12 and an honours diploma for grade 13.
The other difference you can take courses at the General or Advanced level. General will get you into college. But you need to take advanced level courses in Grades 11 & 12 to meet the prerequisites for University. The advanced level courses replaced the OAC level.
-And they’re looking to bring it back, optionally-
Never mind lol. The liberals said they would reimplement it, 1-2 years ago, if they won, but the conservatives are in power so…
I went to high school in Ontario. You would graduate after grade 12, but had the option of taking a 13th year called OAC (Ontario Academic Credits) which further prepared you for post secondary study. It was phased out after 2003.
I spoke to a friend who went to college in the US and he said first year was like a repeat of what he already learned in grade 13.
Yeah, I still took an optional fifth year anyway, even though it wasn't officially grade 13 anymore, was good to get those extra credits.
I went to school when OAC was not an option. Grade 13 was just an automatic.
@@michelleportch6227 Well, it was a requirement for university at least. You graduated after 12 and could go to college or get a job.
@@TwistyMcFisty right now I am pretty sure it is just grade 12+, most of us refer to it as a victory lap because to get into university you just need to complete grade 12 and have had high enough grades
@@evanrieux668 Yes thats how it is now. The OAC requirement for university was eliminated two or three years after I graduated.
My high school in Canada was far more free than it appears schools in the USA are. We had 5 periods which you could pick whatever classes you wanted to fill them. 3 periods before lunch and 2 after lunch. We had a minimum class credit number in order to be eligible for graduation. I managed to have multiple spare periods throughout my last 2 years of high school because I took an extra class over some lunch hours. I didn't even have to show up at school until the 3rd period (10:45) because I chose to take 2 morning spares so that I could sleep later. Lunch time was from 11:45-1:00. You were free to do whatever you wanted in that time. I was one of the few people in my school whom actually used the cafeteria at lunch time. The school couldn't care less about whether or not you choose to come to school on time or for your class. If you were late or skipped class, good for you, your mark will reflect that. If you choose to fail a class, then you'll need to take it again. The staff were very focused on personal responsibility and accountability. We didn't have "homeroom" either, except to check in at the start of the school year to be assigned your locker, given your classes, agendas, etc.
Should have taken the spares at the end of the day although I probably feel like that because my current high schools student parking is a mess
Funny how different things are on the west coast:
Here in British Columbia, A's are at 86%, not 80%.
We do not typically do middle-school. You're in Elementary School from Grade 1-7 (sometimes they have attached kindergartens), and then High School from Grade 8-12.
"Marks" are individual points on a test/exam/assignments typically, though "what mark did you get" can be used to refer to "what score out of 20 did you get" kinda.
"Grades" are still the A/B/C/D/F here.
"Getting good grades" and "getting good marks" can be used interchangeably though, because it implies that you do well in general.
Yea was confused an A has always been 86% for us in BC atleast when I was in school. 80 definitely a B.
A- is actually low 80s throughout Canada, A is high 80s to low 90s, A+ is high 90s to 100.
Yeah I went from elementary to High, but I had a friend who lived a few cities over and they actually had a middle school there.
Sometimes Canada forgets that like the US, education in Canada is under jurisdiction of Provincial/State government. There is variation, though there have been successful national pushes for national standards in certain areas: sexual health education is one.
I never received an A, B, C... etc in highschool at all. I just got a percentage. I am 51 though, so slight chance things have changed.
Canada has one of the most highy educated populations in the world, with a large percentage of the population going into post-secondary education. When I went to school in Ontario, high school went from grade 9 to grade 13 (or "OAC"). OAC (or Ontario Academic Credit) courses basically were university preparation courses involving a large component of independent research. But some students managed to get at least some of their OAC courses out of the way in grade 12. I only had to take 6 OACs, but wound up taking 9. Because I took a number of them in grade 12, I still wound up with half the day free in grade 13, so I was able to do most of my work at school instead of home, or play card games in the library. Or I'd leave early if I had my last class of the day and had no reason to stick around. Ontario eventually got rid of grade 13, which meant that one year there were twice as many graduates (grade 12 and 13 graduating at once) and competing to get into university -- the "double cohort". I understand Ontario is thinking of bringing grade 13 back. Frankly, I think it had benefits. It was great preparation, ensured I was more mature when I started university, etc. And the reason I took 9, OACs? It was an opportunity to take courses in things that interested me but weren't necessarily relevant to my career goals or intended major, and gave me the opportunity to pick and choose which grades / courses I'd present to admissions when applying for university.
In Quebec, the term we use are (kinda translated from french)
mandatory
Kindergarden
Primary school 1 - 6
Secondary school 1 - 5
to get a better job
CEGEP (2 or 3 years depending of the program)
University (need a CEGEP diploma)
other
you can do a specific formation and get a professional study diploma
You don’t need a Cégep diploma to go to university in Quebec
@@Antoine_Dthere are exceptions, but yes you need one in most cases. Exceptions would be : having a high school diploma from outside of Québec and having a relevant working experience of a couple of years. I don’t remember the number of working years required, but those are the only exception. The majority of students going to university have passed trough cegep.
@@karineb.fortin909 two of friends went straight to criminology in uni after secondary, one in biomedical field and one in mechanical engineering. Most people go in Cégep because it’s simpler to traverse from one workplace to another and some classes are “contingentés” like medical school or law school (aka they are competitive and required good grades, usually in the form of R grade). It’s also easier to adapt and you don’t have to do summer school to view subjects not approached during secondary school like calculus or advanced chemistry. Finally, it’s for, a lot of people, a sort of redemption to have more free time before going to uni since arrived at uni, studies take all your time and it’s hard to be more available outside of school. The moment you step in university, dec is useless. Most employers don’t even care about your Cégep diploma.
Times have changed since I went to high school. Graduated in 1978. In Ontario, we started learning french in grade 7 for 20 minutes twice a week. In high school grades were percentages 60% and over meant you passed a test. We had 3 levels for english and math. Below average, average and advance. Depending on your english and math class gave you options for the other 6 courses you had in a year. Below average meant you took trade courses, like auto mechanic and if your marks were above 80% you received a certificate and could get an apprenticeship with no post secondary schooling. Average english and math gave you more choices and advance meant you were planning to go on to grade 13 and university. If you wanted to go to college you took average english and math. They all taught the same but at different speeds of learning. To graduate you had to have 4 english credits, 4 math credits, 2 language credit- french, german or latin, 3 sciences ( biology, chemistry or physic) 3 geography or history, 2 shop, home economics or business courses, 1 art and 2 gym and 1 religious course.
There was no security or metal detector. We had 8 subjects a day starting at 8:30 am til 4 pm. We had a football team, hockey team and basketball team and played against the other schools in our city. Lunch was 75 minutes, and we were allowed to leave the school grounds. Right across the street from my high school was a pub called Patty Greene's and we would go there for a plate of fries with homemade gravy and a bottle of coke it cost 70 cents total. We had two major dances or proms ( long dresses and guys in suits) but also had casual dances every couple of months with local bands like "teenage head".
In Québec, high school starts in grade 7 and is called "secondary 1" and this goes on until grade 11 ("secondary 5"). After that there is a two- or three-year college program (this college is called "CÉGEP" in French) and after two years of this, people can go to university, which can take 3-4 years depending on the program. University fees in Québec are the lowest in the country.
True ! And we definitly don't sing or play the national anthem too.
Hi Tyler, when I went to high school we had a hockey team and a lacrosse team. Most of us grew up playing lacrosse in the summer and hockey in winter. Lacrosse is Canada’s national sport.
I'm just over a minute into her video and this amazing young woman has already introduced the comparison, provided her structure/metric for comparison, and identified the potentials for bias/limitations in her analysis. She's going to do well in life.
And in the difference in scoring it doesn't mean it is "harder to get an A" it is just a different metric for the same 100%. It is normal and equal for each system as everyone operates under their system.
In Canada the using the marks for any required courses (if you apply for an English Program, English marks are required to be included; Math: and they will want Calculus, Finite, and Trigonometry grades) plus a few more you can choose to include yourself. Usually about 6 grades in total.
I went to high school so long ago we had a Grade 13 in Ontario. An extra, optional year, post graduation for more advanced/challenging, similar to first-year Canadian university courses. We would go to University a year older as a result.
I agree. Grade 13 was an option. And some seen it as a benefit, all I ever seen was parents pushing for it and kids doing what their parents wanted/or not. Others went to work for the year, and had some money, and applied and got into university based on their grade 12 Marks. I went to university after working for 3 years. I was considered a mature student and accepted. It had nothing to do with my grades
Not only Grade 13 but the difference between General vs Advanced vs Scholarship Classes. Shakespeare is a good example; General students are taught the popular play(s), Advanced get more indepth analysis and Scholarship analyzed plays like 12th Night. This aspect was canned in favour of High Schools that specialized in Performing Arts, Technical Trades, etc. Not too many welders would attend a Performing Arts High School, let alone an University; a Community College, yes.
@@bucketlist3527 English wasn't your forte but you were smart enough to earn some money before moving on to university. Student loans are the American trap.
@@ScubaSteveCanada Excuse me, English wasn't my forte? And BTW, I'm Canadian. Your reference to American student loans, I might agree, but my son, A Marine Biologist, BA degree, has big student loan debt in Canada. I think students face the realization that education vs. debt is pay now or pay later. Problem is finding a job in your chosen field (especially during the past 2 years related to Covid). He is ok, working but not in his profession. East Coast Canada, I am sure he will get to do what he loves soon.
Hello.
This serves to provide a perspective from living in BC.
86%-100% = A
73%-85% = B
67%-72% = C+
60%-66% = C
50%-59% = C-
0%-49% = I (Incomplete)
2 Incompletes in a school year results in an F for the course.
In my town elementary school went from grades K-7, and high school was grades 8-12; however by the time I started grade 9 the population of my town grew to the point where middle schools were becoming more popular. They started for grades 6-8.
Grades 9 and 10 were considered the juniors, and grades 11 and 12 were the seniors. Those titles were mainly used for groupings for extra curricular activities like sports teams, drama, band and choir classes etc.
Alberta is harder. 86b is an a damn
As someone who lives in BC, I could completely say the same
When I went to high school in Alberta, we started at grade 10. Junior high is grades 7-9. We had standardized testsv (called diplomas) that were worth 50% of your final grade. We could leave the school to get lunch, but the time for it was all dependent on how you scheduled your periods (i.e., had a spare for lunch and how long it was). We also had cheerleaders and a football team, but I think that's only because we were a big high school. There was no hockey team that I know of - not many high schools have hockey teams as far as I'm aware.
Oh, and 90 was an A with 95 as an A+. I've never heard of an A being 80!
I went to 2 HS's in Ontario, many years ago. The first was big into football with a dedicated stadium, coaching staff, cheerleaders, pep rallies etc. The second was all about hockey. The rink was next door and the entire town would show up, not just for games, but for practices. It was a huge deal. I guess this sort of thing varies from school to school and province to province.
That has changed now most provinces have made elementary k-7 and high-school 8-12 standardized testing has also been done away with in most of Canada.
Yeah from Alberta as well and yeah fully agreed on all points here. We had a small high-school but we had 2 football teams. Junior and senior. We had the same for basketball (men's and women's), soccer (men's and women's), so on and so forth.
Our grades are based on this...
A- was 86% to 90%
A was 91% to 95%
A+ was 96% to 100%
School here is also K-6 (Elementary), 7-9 (Jr. High-school), and 10-12 (High-school). And yeah all grade 12 student must take the High-school Diploma exam which as noted above was 50% of your final grade for the year.
I skipped so much school, the only reason I passed is I got 80+ on all my exams after having a fifty or something in my classes.
Nowadays diplomas in Alberta are worth 20%
I'm Canadian living in B.C. In school I had the option to learn my language (I'm first nation) so that's what I took instead of French. My school and my children's school does have a school nurse. My mother in law is a teacher in Ontario (now retired) but she was making 80k a year.
Ooooh where did you grow up? What language? I also live in BC and get to
work with lots of First Nation communities in my job and I know that some have the language program and others don’t. French is such an abstract language to learn in BC imo. I wish everyone could learn an indigenous language instead.
Which language? I’m Métis but ended up learning Spanish of all things in Alberta. But I went to high school in BC. In the city of Vernon. I ended up learning languages on my own. Now I can understand enough to travel with 6 of them. And basics in 22 or so more.
There are high-school hockey teams, but if you're serious about hockey you play for a junior team outside the school. Not only is junior hockey a road to the NHL, it's also a road to a hockey scholarship at an American university.
Yeah. That's true for football too. Junior football is big and entirely outside the educational system. Also true for lacrosse and baseball I believe. I don't know about basketball.
No high school hockey teams in most of British Columbia that I know of. It’s all Basketball and volleyball. Very expensive private boarding school ($50k a year or more) have private rowing teams. Some have tennis teams.
@@christinemoore9239 we had a high school hockey team in BC but they shut down the league because of too many fights… in the stands.
Depends on the junior league. My nephew was drafted to the OHL but deferred to the BCHL, because once you play OHL, you're disqualified from NCAA scholarships.
@@brianbenoit6883 Thanks for the clarification. That issue had slipped my mind.
I just love that you get so intrigued by the differences between both our Countrys! Love watching your reactions!! 😂😂😂
Living in the prairies, I feel like the most common sports teams for our high schools are either volleyball or soccer teams. Where I went to high school, we didn't have a hockey team. We had a broomball team instead.
Really? Growing up in Toronto I assumed most if not all high schools in Canada had a hockey team
@@James-0077 no we have minor hockey programs in Saskatchewan and they are handled completely outside of school by Hockey Canada.
@@James-0077 In Montreal, my high school had a Hockey cosom team (we played hockey with a ball in a gymnasium against other teams in Montreal), but I don't know any secondary school in the region that has an ice hockey team.
I'm not sure how common that is throughout the province. I would expect most of the city schools to have hockey teams, but I was living in a small town at the time.
My high school in Saskatchewan had a hockey team, curling team, football team, baseball team, golf team, cross country running team, wrestling team, track and field team, volleyball team, etc. I'm sure there were more teams than that. The sport that was most backed by the school was Football though.
Being Canadien I didn’t have a homecoming and didn’t participate to prom nor convocation ceremony ‘cause I thought they were an annoyance. Especially in Quebec, high-school really isn’t such huge step in our life.
If you are Canadian please learn to spell Canadian
@@personincognito3989 Calm your horses. I spelled it in French by accident.
Canada has AP classes. We had AP classes all through high school in Ontario. They were called Honour classes. Sometimes, you might need to commute to another local school but they are available.
Same in Newfoundland, and if you did an AP course in high school and passed, it counted as a credit for the first level of that class at the university.
BC has just done away with the AP program this year. It's been a bit of a controversy, especially as some of the reasoning for ending the program is that it "discriminates against kids who don't qualify for AP"...in other words, let's now celebrate mediocrity, and not challenge either group, gifted or otherwise.
We had AP and IB in high school.IB is international baccalaureate or something, and was even more advanced than AP. This is Alberta
In my high school we have ap and at the beginning of grade 12 you can choose to take the ap test which they order from the states and if you get a level 4 or above you get a certain amount of university credits which allow you to jump ahead in some courses in university because by doing that good on the test you effectively demonstrate that you already have that knowledge
@@arlyquino Yeah that's kind of stupid, when I was in school if a class didn't challenge me I simply did not care to attend. Why should anyone attend something they can literally miss every class and still get 80-100% on every test. Like clearly my time is spent better out of class than in it. For that reason I think all gifted kids should have just as much right to better education. As disabled kids have tons of support and changes implemented just for them(not trying to say they don't need it, just stating in terms of equality).
My personal experience growing up in BC and having just finished high school this previous year:
An A grade is from 86% - 100%. B is 72% - 85%. C is 61% to 71%, C- is 50% - 60%, and 49% or lower is an F. (At least from what I remember)
I have not applied to Post-Secondary schooling (college / uni) yet, but I've heard that it does only use marks from your Grade 12 year, and maybe Grade 11.
As far as I know, the only standardized tests we do is an English / literacy test in Grade 10, a numeracy assessment in Grade 11, and another literacy test in grade 12. All of these are just to make sure that the students are actually learning at the correct pace and that the teachers aren't failing to do their jobs in these two different classes (English and Math).
My school district never had a homecoming, I also didn't know about it being at the beginning of the year. We do have a couple different dances during our middle school years, and probably a couple during high school, I just never went to them. We also only have a grad prom, but every grad is allowed a date, which can supposedly be anyone who goes to school in the district. (District = the city I live in which has a few high schools, quite a few middle schools, and a ton of elementary schools.
Where I live, we don't do football aside from a period of time during P.H.E (Physical Health and Education, which is just PE but sometimes you have to do a health class for a couple weeks even though its all stuff you learned in like middle school. The health class is taken from your time in PE, not a separate course.) We do have basketball tournaments and cheerleaders are a part of that. These tourney's happen either once or twice a year, where games rotate between schools. Students can ask to leave class to go watch the basketball games which have a paid entry fee (I think it was only like 2 dollars but the funds went towards the teams I believe, and these games went all day so every student usually made their way down to watch at some point. We have a bunch of sports teams (Track and field, volleyball, basketball, etc.) but we didn't have a football team. We also didn't have a hockey team because hockey isn't a year round sport. All the coaches for our sports teams are also teachers who volunteer.
Our school also didn't have detentions as far as I am aware (or maybe I just wasn't around that type of crowd), most people just ran rampant for a while then were threatened with expulsion and kept their rowdiness more lowkey.
Our lunch went from around 11:10am to 12:00pm, and we were given free reign to leave the property any time as long as we weren't supposed to be in class. (For a class we were supposed to make a physical project to present an idea, and we were allowed to leave property to go buy the supplies because the teacher had run out.) A lot of students did end up skipping classes to go to the Tims that was like half a block up the road from the school. They usually end up getting caught because a principal would walk there to to catch them.
We always started school the first Tuesday of September, because the first Monday is a holiday (Labour Day) and ended some time in late June.
I'm not sure about the AP classes program being accurate here, all I know is that the classes were available at my high-school.
Our schools don't have nurses, but there are quite a few teachers that know first aid and have their certifications, presumably level 3. (Where I live First Aid has 3 different levels to the training). The secretary ladies at the front desk in the office usually are part of the group of staff that have their certifications.
None of my schools have ever had or have even thought of having any type of metal detector / bag check / security guards. We do have a single police officer in the school that I went to, I believe he does some patrolling and stuff but he mostly just hangs around in case something does happen, but you don't see him very often.
French is a language you are forced to learn a bit of in grades 4 to 7, you can choose either Spanish or French in grade 8 and 9(most people choose French), then we had the choice between Spanish, French, German, Japanese and a local aboriginal language that I would totally butcher the spelling of if I tried. Despite having taken French for so many years, it doesn't tend to stick for most students.
College and University are definitely different things here. As far as I know, College focusses on hands on things like mechanics and engineering vs University focusing on regular courses like math and english.
Our schools never used the terms Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior. We were always referred to by our grade level. (If an assembly was only for the class that was going to be graduating that year, the first thing they would say is something like "Hello Grade 12's" then continue from there. I've heard people say they were a freshman/sophomore/junior/senior, but barely any people used it at all.
The most patriotistic part of our schools were that we sang O' Canada at the start of like 90% of assemblies. That was it. We never once pledged allegiance to the flag and I had no idea Americans even did it. For remembrance day assemblies we do have a group of military scout students come in and perform something, but never at any other point in the year do they do it.
When I was in elementary school there was a teacher strike to be paid more and we were only out of school for a couple days before they were like "Okay, well this isn't very good we should maybe just pay them a bit more." and the strike ended. Teachers still aren't paid the best but its a livable wage.
As you saw in a previous video, Canada is amongst the most highly educated countries as far as university degrees and other forms of higher education. While we also have specific trade schools, our emphasis is on working smarter not harder and getting the knowledge required for a positive career. Here in Canada they even prefer for Military applicants to have a degree even for basic infantry man due to the high tech in the modern armed forces. Great video series, as a Canadian I appreciate our brothers to the south taking the time to learn about us. Oh and for the record, I am one of the frozen chosen who do not live within a hundred miles of the border and I quite enjoy the minus 30-degree C(-22 F) and our +30C(86F) summers.
I believe Canada is the country with the highest percentage of the population graduating from Post Secondary schools.
I agree with everything you said however coming from a military family I have to tell you the Canadian military is so desperate for people that you a 100% do not need a degree.
@@personincognito3989 “prefer”
@@personincognito3989 Agreed, I was referring to many years ago when the Forces was a preferred career choice for many younger folks, mid to late 80's
careful: anyone entering the Canadian military with a university degree is automatically enrolled as an officer candidate. No 'enlisted man ' would have a degree. All officers MUST have a university degree, without exception. No enlisted man in the ranks would remain as a non-commissioned officer (up to the rank of Sgt major or warrant officer) if he has a university degree--he would be promoted to 2nd lieutenant. The high tech jobs in the military do not require university degrees for enlisted men--you learn on the job. All high tech jobs in the military are lead by well educated men with university degrees as officers. This goes for women too of course. All enlisted men and women must have a high school diploma or sometimes a college diploma--(but not required ). All candidates for pilot training must have a university degree.
I was born and raised (not to mention graduated from high school) in Texas but went straight into university in Ontario. Even though my high school was one of the highest ranked public high schools in America when I attended and I was personally ranked within the top 10% of my graduating class of 850 students with an 1450 SAT score (out of the old 1600-system), I can honestly tell you that I felt woefully underprepared (academically, at the very least) for university as compared to my Canadian classmates.
two points. I'm in Vancouver but when I was in school both primary and High School, we didn't have 3 months off for summer. Our last day of school was in the 3rd week of June, and school always restarted in the first week of September. Also, I never understood the whole freshman/sophomore thing, it always seemed to me it was meant for university, not grades 8 to 12, though in some cases grade 8 and 9 would be called Junior High, so thanks for getting that explained. Tyler, you are doing a great job for getting in to the Canadian Psyche, you honestly should move here for a year or two, just to experience life as a Canadian and see how we do it
Americans have no idea how lucky they are. Our country sucks
Pretty much the Same as with school where I grew up in Saskatchewan. Last day of classes was late June, started back up end of August, the 27th, the 28th. The classification “freshman, junior, sophomore, senior” seems silly to me.
Who gets 3 months off for summer? Last weekday in June until the Tuesday after Labour Day. High school is a bit different because the have finals for Gr 12 in June.
This is true for most of Canada, except for Quebec. In Quebec, elementary school ends in the 6th grade and there's no "Junior High". Kids go straight to High School and they spend five years there. Typically, we start counting again in High school and the grades are called "Secondary 1, sec. 2,..., sec. 5". However, I have heard some anglophones from Quebec say "I'm in grade 8 or 9, instead". We also have a network of public institutions between high shcool and university called "CEGEP" (an acronym for "College d'enseignement général et professionel" or College for general and professional learning"). The anglos often call them "Junior College". They are similar to Community colleges in the States because they offer two-year pre-university programs and three year technical programs. The one thing that's unique to Quebec in these colleges is the common general courses that all students have to take no matter what program they're in : Language (French and English), Philosophy, Phys. Ed. and a number of electives outside of their programe of studies. I actually teach biology in one of these colleges and I have students that will go on to University in Science or even in Medicine but also future nurses or dental hygenists. The great thing about CEGEPS is that tuition is basically free, excluding some administrative fees.
I went to Highschool in Canada for grades 8-9, then in the US for the last (though they tried to hold me back a grade because of my age, which only fucked things up because I was doing a mix of 9&10th grade classes because of it), and back in Canada we did have free-reign during lunch. An entire hour and it was open campus, and a lot of us even left school to go get lunch at the restaurants and and fast-food places nearby. But the best thing my school had was it ran on a Block System. So rather than having 6 classes a day from 7a-2pm, we had 8 classes split over 2 days. So on day 1, we'd have 4 classes, (845a-215p)and day 2 we'd have the other 4 classes. Each class was about 90 minutes long and we'd get two 15-minute breaks between classes and an hour for lunch. This made doing homework easier since we had effective an extra day to complete it.
my middle school did the same thing, then my high school did the same 4 classes for the first half of the year, then the other 4 classes for the other half of the year.
Same here. We often got our lunch at the 7-11 up the block from school. I can't imagine being locked in a cafeteria for the entire lunch and not being allowed to walk around outside...that's bizarre.
I'm also from the same area the girl in the video is from (Toronto, Ontario) and I can tell you this much, it all depends on what school you go to for the behavior of the teens there. A lot of the misbehaving students get suspended, and then eventually moved to a nearby alternative school where you basically just get a mix of students with special needs and the ones who skip class a lot/get into fights, etc. And depending on what school you're at, detention is usually at lunch (you can't go out for lunch that day and have to eat lunch at school in a quiet room) or for maximum 15 minutes after school if you don't take a school bus home.
There is also a lot of students will come back late from lunch, do things like smoke weed in the bathroom, etc, but they of course get in trouble for it and will get calls home and stuff. Though, for the weed and smoking thing a lot of schools don't care if you do it off property, especially once you get to grade 12 and are 18 (the legal drinking/smoking age in Canada is 18-19).
Also, we play O'Canada over the PA system every morning right before starting classes for the day and the most you have to do it stand up until it's over. Although if you're Native, you aren't required to stand.
I also wanted to point out that in Ontario, we also have the OSSLT along the EQAO, however the OSSLT is a general literacy based test only taken once in 10th grade. It is meant to test your knowledge unlike the EQAO. It is needed in Ontario to pass to graduate. It's extremely straightforward though
That was the year I went to grade 9, 2000. Back when the teachers didn't strike for a raise, they striked to get a better curriculum. Sucked for me cause grade 9 was hard. You also had to do 40 hours community service
@@highstreetkillers4377 Yup don't even get me started on those 40 hours LMFAO
Grade 10 OSSLT is an EQOA standardized test, along with Grade 3 and 6 math and literacy, and grade 9 Math. The "literacy requirement" can also be completed through the OSSLC for graduation.
Yup getting 40 hours community service was harder than the literacy test.
Back in my days in Hight School there were general and advanced levels in each year, those generally scoring lower % would be in general. Advanced for the more intelligent. We also did math in our heads, only allowed calculators during exams for General levels. No computers existed. I skipped French through all of high school. We also had grade 13 as an option and graduating from grade 12 required 28 credits. Each passed class was a credit with math, history, science, etc being mandatory. We did have shop classes, like wood working, auto class in the regular high school. But of course, I graduated high school in 1979. There is also not the pressure from parents to attend college or university after high school.
Very much the same in Ontario in the early 90's
I got a BA in Canada followed by an MA in Canada. I got an MBA in the USA.
In comparison to the MA, the MBA was a cake walk.
80 is an A in Canada but it is way tougher. The definition of a 90 is usually something like the work makes a contribution to the field.
How tough was the MBA compare to your BA? Also...what was your MA in?
@@scholarlyanalyst7700 - I took a very wide ranging BA that put me in good stead for the GREs. I got a full scholarship for my MA. The toughest courses were stats and neuro but every course in the BA and MA was really satisfying.
As a (Grade 11) Junior in a Canadian high school, I can say that our grading system varies province to province. Here in British Columbia, and A is anything above 86%, a B is from 73-85%, a C+ is anything from a 67-72%, a C is 60-66%, a C- is 50-59%. an F is anything below 50%.
I had an American pen pal way back in my high school years in France and when we exchanged our time tables I was shocked by how much time was scheduled for sport and how important the teams were.
I'm pretty sure that the reason American schools have school nurses and Canadian schools don't is because of our free healthcare system. In the States they probably want to make sure all students have access to some sort of healthcare while at school even if the child's parents don't have coverage. Whereas if you get sick or injured at school to the point where you need a nurse in Canada, they would just call your parents, an ambulance or you would just go to the nearest free clinic or hospital depending on how bad your ailment is. If you just scrape your knee or get hit with a ball or something the office will give you a bandaid or ice and send you on your way. It also might be the lawsuit culture in the states, so to protect against the school getting sued for not doing the right thing when a kid is sick or injured, they have the nurse there to check kids out just to be safe and I suppose use them as a scapegoat if need be lol.
Learning French where I live (Saskatchewan, central canada) can be done 2 ways. U can learn it as a subject along with your other classes for a few years. Or you can choose to go to a school that is French immersion. Meaning everything you learn is in French. I only ever had the classes. My best friend did this as well during elementary school, but went into French immersion in high school as an elective. She still knows French and can converse somewhat to this day although she doesn’t use it much. I maybe know a few phrases here and there…. Kinda wish I’d done immersion tbh.
We have that in Nova Scotia too! I took immersion and then dated an Acadian for 5 years, I can barely hold a decent conversation anymore in French because I haven't practiced it since my mid 20s. Unless you plan on a government job, or are living in a heavy French speaking area, its not super worth it. Mainly, I just gained a new variety of swear words I keep in rotation
@@nicholesnow ya that’s the way I feel too. Not overly worth it for where I live. Although it would open other doors to jobs potentially. Wow! Acadian French is VERY different. I was on the east coast and was around people speaking Acadian French. I couldn’t understand a single word.
High school hierarchy existed in Canada when I was in high school (which was a very long time ago) but mostly just for kids in grade 9 who were referred to as 9er's.
Where (and when) I grew up in Calgary, Alberta we had kindergarten, elementary school (grade 1-6), Jr. High school (7-9) High school (10-12). No homecoming and we call it grad (graduation) not prom. There were various dances starting in grade 7 but they were always informal except maybe Christmas or other seasonal celebrations. When I was in elementary school, French was part of our curriculum from grade 4-6. Once in Jr. High, it was optional but the classes were small because nobody wanted it lol. I went home for lunch from grade 1 thru 12. I never ate at school unless it was blizzarding and we had a snack shack to buy foods to eat on the gymnasium floor. In high school there was a cafeteria open during all school hours. We sang Oh Canada and God Save the Queen only at the beginning of big assemblies in the gymnasium, where the entire school gathered (or sometimes just certain grades). I’m not sure when this gal recorded this video but in Ontario where she lived minimum wage increased on Jan 1, 2022 to $15/hr and again it just increased on Oct 1 to $15.50 / hour.
Some junior high schools have hockey teams but not all of them. I don't know any high school teams with hockey teams. But we have hockey leagues outside schools in Canada. That's probably why.
Each province is different. Alberta High School is grade 10-12. Some districts have grade 9 in the building but grade 9 is considered Jr High.
The importance of football and cheerleading in Canada is also somewhat a product of the era as well. I'm quite a bit older from Toronto, and our football team was a BIG deal (we were Metro champions at one point) but funding cutbacks seemed to kill it off and we lost our team about 15-20 years ago as did many other schools in our area.
We didn’t have cheerleading but both the football team and hockey team was both very popular
In my highschool in Ontario we had a homecoming. There was a parade, a football game (though I don't think people paid so much attention to the game nor the cheerleaders), and a big field party afterwards where all the students partied. I don't remember a school dance.
I'm surprised she didn't even mention French Immersion schools. In Saskatoon, Saskatchewan we have a couple French Immersion schools where you send your English-speaking children and they teach them like regular school but they only speak in French. The kids are fully immersed in French and have no choice but to become fluent. I knew a lot of people in high school that were "Frenchies" we called them and they were weird and very cliquey. They dressed and acted totally different.
Became Canadian politicians??
We have those kinds of schools in the USA too. My cousin attends s French one in New Orleans. I went to Spanish immersion for seven years. They don’t teach any English until second grade then after that we do all our subjects in Spanish and take English class. I’m aware of Mandarin schools like this too.
I taught in a High School that had a French Immersion section. The students were not unusual in any way that I could see.
@@waynebilbrough9990 I was in French immersion and the English kids thought they were better than us. We were the oldest group for FI at our school though and got new textbooks and materials every year while there's was so old though (split class and we spent time with them when EQAO came around).
So here in British Columbia we have many many French immersion schools and all my children went to French Immersion school. What I can tell you about them is that The French kids tended to stick with the French kids until they got into middle school and the English kids stuck with the English kids till they got into middle school Then they all played together. The French kids usually had more involved parents than the English kids so the French kids were very high achieving And in elementary school the French kids thought they were slightly better than this kid's lol but as they got older all became friends. Those are the only differences I saw, for the most part they were from all walks of life. Also my kids are spaced apart almost in 2 different generations and this was all the same in both generations of French Immersion in British Columbia but in 2 different cities.
Also, for the postsecondary diploma program I went into as an adult here in Canada, I did not need to have graduated high school. All I needed was the prerequisite, which was grade 12 English. Other programs needed grade 11 math. I could then bridge that into a Bachelor's program without even ever needing to have a high school diploma.
In Québec, there are no letter marks (or at least there wasn't when I was in school), we just used the %age. There's also 6 years of elementary (7 if you count Kindergarden), and 5 of high school, 3 or 4 yrs of college depending on your path, and then 2-4 years in University, again depending on what you chose. No terms for Solfmore/freshman etc in French.
And the reason Cheerleading isn't really a big deal in Canada, there's no cheerleaders in Hockey :P The hockey leagues at that age have nothing to do with schools, the teams are per city, not per shcool.
My school had a nurse, but most times it wasn't the only thing that person did, it coulda been a First Aid trained office person that acts as a nurse if needed.
in Québec we also had english classes starting in grade 4 all the way to level 5 of high school...
College (CÉGEP) is 2 years for a pre-university program, 3-4 for a tech program :) by the first year of university quebec and the rest of Canada have 13 years of schooling
Now English classes start from grade 1.
English starts in grade one nowadays. It is mandatory from grade 1 to bachelor degree if you decide to go to university.
I just want to say, I am a Canadian. I grew up here in Canada. I keep hearing how French is mandatory. It's not. I've never learned French, and it's never been a requirement to learn a second language.
Our science classes are different. What we learn in Highschool science (Physics, Biology, Chemistry) is early post secondary for the USA.
It's a requirement to learn a second language if you want to directly enter a university-level program that doesn't specifically exclude a grade 11 language score. But that's what college, upgrading programs, and mature entry are all for, right? My sister didn't take French after 5th grade and she's a teacher with a Master's now. She started her post-secondary studies at a college that didn't require a language. Fortunately for her that college became a fully accredited university part way through her studies and she was able to finish her full degree there.
@@JennaGetsCreativethe onlu two universities that requires a second language grade 11 is SFU and UBC
@@WYLNXCA I don't think that's true across all of Canada, you've only listed 2 British Columbia schools, but those do happen to be the 2 I applied to in 12th grade and my sister and I both attended SFU.
Depends on the province you're in. In Ontario has been mandatory to take French grades 4-9 for quite some time. In my school board we started in grade 1. However, I had friends who were exempt, including one friend who came to Ontario later from Alberta. My family is anglophone from Quebec and my uncle never graduated high school because he couldn't pass grade 11 French.
I got really far into adulthood until I realized that American movies and TV series about high school were any more realistic than American action films
Generally speaking, college is a diploma/certificate and university is a degree.
I'm also in Ontario and in my city, Ottawa, there are designated schools within the public school board that have a gifted program. It's offered from grade one through to grade 12 although in the primary school setting, specifically grades one to six, there are not nearly enough spaces to keep up with the demand. It gets better in middle and high school.
Hi Kathie. Americans will be confused about the term 'gifted'. Sometimes, even I am confused. (London dad.) I have a daughter who is somewhat neurologically disabled. Sweetest kindest young woman ever. She got the label 'gifted' early. To me, (dad of 5 - Katie is/ a twin); she is a gift. In America; gifted tends to mean brilliant with a high IQ.
Same! I’m also in Ottawa and there are also 2 public high schools that offer the IB program (application only though). I find that the gifted program is becoming less popular as in teachers aren’t as willing to send you there.
@@tjmcguire9417 Are you two talking about different thing? 'Exceptional Students' can get pulled out of class for special programming and experiences with the exact same description as Americans do.
I dislike the term "gifted" as well, they are hanging on to a name that the program was given at it's inception many years ago. And you're right, all children are gifted in some way. I used to say the same to my other children. For the purposes of this conversation I am referring to intellectually gifted when I was discussing schools and programs in the public school board here in Ottawa. Apologies for any confusion.
I graduated in British Colombia in 2005, so things could have changed a lot since then. We had junior high and high school, junior was from 8-10 and high school 11-12. If you did well in grade 9 nine you could have the option of going to the high school for grade 10 because some grade 11 students didn't pass all their grade 10 classes, so they just filled the classes that way. We got 2, 13 minute breaks, 1 before noon and 1 after and a 50 minute lunch break. We could leave the school grounds during break, but in my town there isn't much to do, so most kids just stayed. We had a lunch room, but had to bring our own lunches or eat candy/chips from the vending machine. Most people just sat around the school by lockers or wherever, in junior high my friends and me usually hung out in the cooking class because they had a microwave or in the stairwell. We used percentages, not grades and in grade 10 and 12 provincal exams were a big deal, basically fail that test, you failed the course. We had prom in grade 12, and if there was enough students that wanted to put on a dance, we would sometimes have a winter dance. At grad, we didn't walk across the stage to pick up your diploma, there was just a giant stack and you grabbed one. School started beginning of September and ended end of June. I took a provincal the day before grad, so sometimes people would go to graduation and find out in the summer, they failed. I think a lot has changed since then, I know kids get way more days off then I did.
May is not cold usually, it is quite warm, but there can be cold days.
Depends where you are and how old you are (regarding weather during your HS years). During mine here in central Alberta (Edmonton) winter started in September and ended in May spring happen in June summer July to August and fall August into September. (Point being we had 8 months of snow.). Again this was 30 years ago and the climate has changed since then.
@@kopitarrules southern Ontario. The same place I gather she is. March is coldish. April is all over, but by may it is warm. The problem is that it goes from 15-20 to 25-30+ very quickly. There is very little spring it quickly goes to full summer. Now southern Ontario in the summer is beautiful, but a little more transition..
In Quebec you take school in either English or French from kindergarten, if you take English then it's all day English with 1 class a day in french, grade 5 is required french immersion and from that point you can go to all day french classes after that. If you go the french route then it's all day french with an English class a day, followed by a year of English immersion and the ability to choose English or french.
Also Quebec has CJEP which is essentially either finishing school or community college depending on your course load.
We also started music classes in grade 2 with a recorder style flute, grade 5 and 6 we learn the ukelele then highschool we learn whatever instruments are available.
One last thing from when I lived in Montreal, gymnastics is/was a basic part of most of my / my friends school lives, balance beam rings pommel horse stuff like that
Canadian here. She's right about the AP program not being available in all high schools; however, some schools here offer IB (international baccalaureate) which is the same thing but known internationally. I was a part-time IB student back in the day. That meant some of my classes were IB level and others were just regular high school level. Full-time IB looked too stressful because all your classes were IB level plus you had to write an extended essay at the end. Also, you had to do CAS (creative, activity, and service) hours. These are extracurricular activities consisting of something creative/artistic, activity/athletic, and community service. 25 hours of each and you had to do it outside of school hours. I barely made it out alive..lol
Is it 25 of each, now? I only had to do 40 hours of community service back in the day.
This was back in 2004 for me. Not sure if it changed but just 40 hrs of community service would be a blessing
AP classes are not recognized in Nova Scotia Universities
As a Canadian from British Columbia I graduated in 2001. My high school was more into basketball, volleyball and track and field. Yes we had a football team but it wasn't a big deal. And for detention we never had that if a student misbehaved we had to talk either the principal or councilor and depending on the severity of the problem you either had to do a report on what it was and how it was disrespectful and wrong, if it was a more severe ongoing issue you could get suspended from extra curricular activities, school outings or suspended from school for a few days.
Im from Nova Scotia. Our marks were always percentage. Never letters. We had honours roll and distinction roll for students with averages in 90s and 80s. Our transcript is marks from grade 10-12. Our school sports were definitly basketball, hockey, soccer but others too like volleyball, rugby. Oh Canada was played before the annoucements in the AM and we stood at our desks.
Same here in Saskatchewan.
same in toronto
Basketball is an important high school sport in many places in Canada.
Definitely true. BC and Alberta definitely have it.
What she says is true for Ontario but no Quebec
I'm canadian and moved around quite a bit. one thing about French studies in ontario it varies schoolboard to schoolboard, I think it's mandatory for them to start after it in grade 4 however I was learning core French starting kindergarten and when I moved cities in grade 4 they were just starting where I had 5 years of knowledge already. I'm surprised when talking about EQAO and standardized tests in Ontario she didn't mention the OSSLT which is literacy test you need 75% or higher on to pass- and you need it to graduate. In BC they have middle school, I can't quite remember which grades it was there, in Alberta they have junior high and 3 years of highschool. Quebec has 3 years highschool and then they can attend a cegep and then go to college or uni. AP isn't accepted in all universities it's only really a big thing in the states plus it costs more for us. I would also like for add detention does exist in select schools, one of my ontario elementary schools had it, you would basically spend a recess in a classroom with other kids from other grades in detention and stare at a white or blackboard with the sentence "think about what you've done". There are more rual areas in Canada so some schools are k-12 with one giant class catering to a large area. Often indigenous kids living on reserves don't get proper education (amongst other issues) and have to travel a long way to get to school or live away from home to go to school to get a proper education.
I went to high school in Quebec 2 1/2 years and in Florida 2 1/2 years (Im born in the US but grewup in Quebec) and it was veeeeery different !! I enjoyed both but the canadian system definately was more challenging. The US school I went to treated me like I was the smartest kid in the school (and dont forget, I had only been in french speaking schools at that point) which was very weird but I very much enjoyed how flexible the school was with my classes so it matched where I was really in my education (in 10th grade I was 13 years old, had 12th grade math and 11th grade english). In Qc you have to follow the herd which wasnt always easy. The Qc system of education is different from english speaking provinces so its still quite different from what this girl described 😅
Yes cause in Quebec u start high school in grade 7 which is actually called secondary 1 ( and theirs 5) then they go to cégep (which is I guess junior college) cause it’s something between high school and college/university
Do you prefer canada than america
@@freshlyshaved5191 I was very lucky. I had two very good schools, my classmates were great and I had lots of fun in High School. As a teen I liked better how flexible the US school was and the schedules because we didn't leave everyday with loads of homework like in Quebec. BUT in Florida I felt very unsafe all the time because of people being armed and school shootings. And I hate the heat, so as an adult I'ld say I like canadian schools better 🙂
@@freshlyshaved5191 well technically America is a continent that includes a lot of countries.. but definitely wouldn’t live in the USA
* definitely
where i grew up in ontario:
no prom
homecoming was a parade and a party (not a dance)
we had a winter formal called snow ball and that was the only formal people really went to bc drinking culture was big and the police would give you breathalizers and check your bag bf you could get into the school, and you weren't allowed at your lockers. people did get pretty formal though.
most big celebrations were organized by students as "field parties". there would be a big bonfire and music played out of a truck
grad was called "safe grad". also breathalized and bag checked, but it was in the arena and there were so so so many activities to do (glow bowling, poker, dancing, sumo wrestling, gladiator courses, etc.)
football wasn't big, nor cheerleaders, but hockey definitely was and hockey players were treated a lot like football players
Maybe it's because I'm almost 40 but alot of what she's saying was not the case when I was in school.
Same. I'm older too and things were different but I know for the most part, they are different now.
Just an FYI, the schooling system in Quebec is completely different to the rest of the provinces. We have 6 years of elementary school, and 5 years of highschool. Then we have 2-3 years of cegep, and then we can go to university if we wish. In other provinces, it is only college after highschool which is university. Cegep in quebec is like a bridge between highschool and university, We also have something called a DEP (like a trades program),
People are typically eligible for this if they have at least the first 4 years of highschool completed. Careers like secretaries, mechanics, hairdressers, chefs, bakers.... are all DEPs.
We also don't have ABC grades after the first few years of school, it is all number grades from there. We also have second-language english classes from elementary school all the way up to college. I've also been to many schools and have never been to one that had a football team or cheerleaders lol. One school had a volleyball team and one had a basketball team but that was it.
I went to school in Alberta.
We had tests called PATs that you did in grades 3,6,9 and 12. The grade 12 one at the time was worth 50% of your final mark in each class.
Some schools had AP programs where others had IB programs. Smaller schools might have not had anything.
My high school had a cheer team and would go to competitions and even went to Hawaii. My high school did not have a football team because I went to an arts school and there was not much interest. But other high schools in my city had football and students could try out for other schools.
I have never heard of a school hockey team. I think it's difficult to get ice. Most students just sign up for hockey outside of school but it is a very expensive sport.
Starting in grade 7 I was allowed to go anywhere for lunch.
High school I had zero dances. I had graduation but there wasn't much dance. Jr high I had a dance for every holiday (Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day).
Here jr high is 7-9 and high school is 10-12 but there are some schools that are different.
I had detention in jr high but not for high school. I guess it depends on the school and how strict they want to be.
My high school had no dress code only thing was you couldn't wear hats in the theatre. This again because I went to an arts school.
In our part of ontario, we have school hockey teams.
Dynamo un jour, Dynamo toujours!
I'm also from Alberta and I went to middle school from gr.6-8 and high-school was 8-12 and we didn't have detention in either, I wonder if this is because we're from different areas of Alberta or because we did our schooling at different times maybe?
Here in Alberta, the grades are K-6 (elementary), 7-9 (Junior high), and high school (10 - 12).
The marks universities look at most are your core courses - English, Math, Social Studies, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.
We also do not use freshman, sophomore and similar terms for students, you're just Grade 9, Grade 10, etc. I've also never heard those terms in university either, and it took me a long time to figure them out.
As she noted, there are also no SATs here in Canada, although a handful of Canadian students may take them if they are hoping to go to a school in the US. However, Alberta does have 'Diploma exams' which are standardized province-wide tests in your core subjects, and which count for 20% of your final grade. When I was in high school back in the day, they counted for 50% of your final mark, so they were pretty nerve-wracking for a lot of people. Learning French is optional in Alberta, although most of the smart kids will take it as it looks good on your university application.
High school sports are really only considered important for student athletes looking for a sports scholarship to a US school. Football games here are played on a regular field, not in a stadium, and only a handful of fans may show up for the games, aside from the city championship, which might get a few hundred fans.
I find it bizarre that freedom-loving USA don't allow kids to leave the school at lunchtime - as far back as junior high, we walked to the mall, 7/11, or nearby fast food joint at lunchtime.
I'm a Canadian from Toronto that graduated high school about 25 years ago. I'm also finding it interesting to find out how things have changed since then (since I don't have kids and I don't work in education so I had no reason to keep up with how high school works). Biggest change is that when I went, we still had a 5th year of high school (was called Ontario Academic Credits [OAC] only required for students intending to go to university). Admission to university was solely based on your OAC 5th year grades.
The extra year was intended to be equivalent to the first year of university, so you could get a general degree in three years and an honours degree in four. However, you can still get a general degree in three and an honours degree in four, so maybe you and I were robbed of a year of job income.
@@johnfitzgerald7618 I had been under the impression they got rid of the three-year general university degree when they got rid of OAC. Ugh... sounds like we really were robbed of a year of income!
@@ally679 I only checked the UWO website. Other universities may have got rid of general degrees. It does seem the logical thing to do.
I'm a Canadian & can say that the different levels in a high school is grades 9 - 10 are Juniors as the grades 11 -12 are Seniors in Ontario, now there are circumstances when a student has excelled so well in their 1st year of high school of grade 9 Junior ADVANCES to grade 10 Senior. That is in the province of Ontario.
The marks on report cards do have percentages of 20% is D- to 100% is A+, that was when I had attended high school of 1985 to 1989.
The Ministry of Education with the school boards had upgraded the system with proficiency tests in many subjects from to literacy to mathematics in the last 12 to 15 years in Ontario.
I can't speak for the rest of Canada but as someone who lives and was raised in Toronto all my life too.
We use both grades and marks but usually marks is for like "what mark did you get?"
and she is right, 80 is indeed an A. I got 80% in my top 6 senior courses and got an Ontario scholar award 🥵 (So she is also right on how we calculate percentages for uni) If you counted my 9th grade marks for uni OH DEARY ME 😖
Here in Quebec it's
A+ 95
A 90
A- 85
B+ 80
B 75
B- 70
C+ 65
C 60
Lower than that you fail.
Its so weird to think about how different marks are throughout provinces. Where I go to school we have 1-4+
4+ (95+)
4 (87-94)
3+ (around 75-86)
3 (60-74)
2 (50-60) and a 1 basically means you didn’t turn anything in, or you didn’t show up
You need a 60 to pass
I’m like a year late. I went to school in both Alberta and BC. I don’t really remember the grade marking with A, B etc. Each province and territory have their own rules with schooling. It falls under the provincial government. Rather than federal.
In Québec, every student starts to learn a second language in primary school. French kids learn english and english have to learn french. Then, they study the second language every year during high school. At the end, they have to be able to sustain a normal conversation in the second language you studied. Education is a provincial power and that explain why it is different in every provinces.
American grades might appear more strict but the course material is usually more difficult in Canada. The cirriculum is standard across the entire province. In Alberta all grade 12s write the same final exam.
What do you mean “same final exam”? Every class has a final exam. A math final, an English final, a science final, a math final, a bio final. Whatever electives you’ve chosen, each have a final exam for that class. There isn’t just one exam to graduate.
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 That is probably what she meant, well, at least that's what I understood!
HE know nothing about his own country, US school has used percentages not grades for over 10 years now.
I'm also from Canada, Ontario and my schooling experience is slightly different from what she has explained, probably because the system has changed from when I graduated in 2008.
I took French Immersion from Kindergarten until grade 12. This meant that I took varying courses in French and English throughout my schooling experience. In fact, one year I might do Math in French, then the next year in English; not going to lie it could be confusing sometimes.
Also, in High School we had Applied and Academic courses, Applied courses were more hands on and aimed towards College while Academic courses were more focused on analytical skills aimed towards University.
AH! We had detention at my high school but you were more likely to get a warning first, then detention, then suspension. Nobody really wanted to get detention as it was an after school thing and your parents would have to come and get you because school buses weren't running anymore, so you'd get in trouble for whatever you did at school that gave you detention in the first place AND the fact that your parents had to make an extra trip to get you. lol
It's not the grade that matters it's the level of knowledge obtained that matters here in Canada. What you learned in the process.
When you start learning french is very dependant on where in Canada you are. I moved around Ontario a lot, and in one place French started in Junior Kindergarten, another city I lived in they started in grade 4, and another was grade 2. In Ontario it seemed to be the further north you were, the earlier you learn French.
Pertaining to school detention, you may want to do a video on the the difference between the corrections systems (prisons and correctional services). The US had a much more punitive mindset as opposed to rehabilitation in Canada. This difference of mindset seems to start even in the way schools handle misbehaving students. I think it is a good reflection on some of the cultural differences that may ultimately explain many behavioural patterns. there is also a difference in the practice of law (i.e. leading to incarceration), where the US applies the "letter" of the law whereas Canada applies the "spirit" of the law.
We have been moving towards a more American system of the letter of law.
Having said that, the spirit of law is still our way.
Having been in jail I can say with absolute certainty that rehabilitation is the first thing. We do warehouse criminals, but we also have a huge number of social workers as guards in the system.
The ultimate in rehabilitation in BC is Guthrie house at Brendon lake.
Canada you can go out and murder 10 children in cold blood and you won't even do 10 years in jail. Our justice system is a joke. Look at the guy recently stabbed a bunch of people with a record of 142 charges. 5 times charged with beating his wife. America does it right
Grades in Québec are in percentages. No letters in highschool.
Also, our elementary (primary) school is 6 years (not counting kindergarden) and highschool (secondary school) is five years. So we have 11 years in total (primary 1 to 6, and secondary 1 to five - we don't say 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th grade). After that we have cégep (a college - not a university) which is 2 to 3 years before university (3 to 4 years a bachelor, 2 to 4 years a master, and 4+ years a doctorate).
The cégep "grades" are converted into a yield score called R-score (or cote-r in French - r stands for "rendement" which means "yield"), universities use that score insted of "raw" grades which makes it more competitive.
We only have prom in Québec and isn't really a thing either.
Highschool sports are not a thing either in Québec, we have some, but not really popular.
We have detention rooms, but they are rarely used. They have a good talk we teachers or the principal several times before ending there. Suspensions are only a thing if you're really violent here.
We don't have AP programs here. We have "enriched" classes for those who have better grades, you would never be allowed to take cégep or university classes without a highscool diploma.
In Québec we do have school nurses and even psychologists. We also have specialists for special education in almost every school.
In Québec, English as a second language is mandatory from grade one all the way to university. But you're allowed to take another language at the same time (the most popular are Spanish and German). I didn't take other language classes because I took extra math and science classes.
As far as discipline goes, when I was in high school ('89 - '91) there was detention, probation, and suspensions. Talking it out seems to be the new thing now. As for the distinction between college/university, you go to college to learn to be a Veterinary Assistant, Plumber, Car Mechanic, Homecare worker, etc You go to University to get a Bachelor's degree, Masters, Doctorate. Teachers are very well paid in Canada - $43,000.00 Cdn according to Google. Enjoying this channel a lot, learning lots about my country and the US. :)
A lot of it depends on geography. I had to bus 20 miles to my high school, so if I were to be held for a detention, the school would have had to kidnap me for the night.
43k is awful😂
20:00 (No school nurse in Canada). Well, we had a small nursing station for emergencies, with a cot for an ill student to lie down on (I may have BSed my way into a late morning nap once or twice. ^_^) but any First Aid was applied by another member of the faculty who was FA certified. That definitely included all the gym teachers and the main office secretary (nurse station was behind her office).
Keep in mind, this is CANADA. If your kids are sick, as a parent, you can take them to a doctor, clinic, or hospital for free, anytime. We don't really need a full-time, Registered Nurse at the school to pick up the slack.
In Canada Universities are the only ones allowed to give out degrees (ie Bachelor, Master, PHD, etc). Where things might get confusing is that many universities have colleges attached that run degree programs for the universities. eg you go to King's College but your degree is given by University of Western Ontario. A senior college might also get its own university charter so they can issue degrees on their own but are still referred informally by their old 'college' name.
Seneca has bachelor programs that are not part of other universities
@@GPatch Yeah, I phrased it badly and some of the stuff I said might be a tad out of date. Since 2001 a number of non-affiliated colleges have been granted degree granting authority by the government.
In BC in the late 60s the only exams that I remember writing that were common to all schools in the province were the optional Grade 12 scholarship exams. I had to write at least two exams in subjects of my choice. I chose to write 3 exams, (Math, Chem. and French); they averaged the marks in the top two and awarded my scholarship accordingly - 75% of first year university tuition for First class marks (80% and above). There were other grade 12 exams to determine if you graduated and had sufficient grades to attend university. As far as lunch time, we got a full hour and the town was quite small, so most of the kids went home for lunch. For those kids that lived a mile away, there was a designated class room where they had lunch. There was no cafeteria, they brought lunch from home.
being from canada, i agree with the final year to get into university. how mature are u going into high school? and ur not thinking in the long-term as a kid. in grade 12 u know u have to really buckle down
As a French Canadian, That is why I like the CEGEP before University. It gives a young person time to mature and think of their future and try things.
@@alainaurelseguin i agree , my moms and bf is from quebec they both did cegep too!
Dated a girl from Connecticut in HS for 3 years as a Canadian (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario & Michigan, split by the CanUS border) Most of what she was saying brought back memories. I didnt know what a sophomore was, and she thought it was weird I called it Grades 9-12. She had 8 classes a day for 45 minutes each I believe, where I had 4 classes that were 90 minutes each. We don't have SAT's, but in Ontario you must pass "The Literacy Test" or The OSSLT in 10th grade to prove that you're meeting the minimum standard for literacy. If you fail the literacy test your Grade 11 English will be replaced with an english course more suited to catching you up and being able to pass the test next year, since you cannot graduate without passing the literacy test.
And Québec is completely different from English Canada. We use Primary/secondary and then College and then University. So preschool is 5-6 year olds. Then Primary is 1 to 6th grade. Then Secondary is again 1 to 5 th. Then you go to college for 2 years to get to UNI or 3 years to get a trade (technical college). You can then also decide to head to University. In Québec we do not use A grades we use % only.
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the U.S also has undergraduate colleges for Associate Art's and Bachelors degrees , and Universities for Bachelors and masters degrees ,
Adding... We start English in 1st grade and we have it all the way through college. And passing is required in order to pass secondary school and College.
it's a horrible system
@@highstreetkillers4377 why?...university is not for everyone...so if you can go to cegep after school while you still young it helps alot...I think Québec students are then much more mature when they decide to go to university..they not as childish to go to all the parties as they have had three to two years ahead start to being free....again most student others will always be childish.
I think its a way for the government to get as many trades people into the market as soon as possible...nurses, teachers aids, welders and so on....the only thing I can see is that kids grow up faster here...maybe not so good not sure yet
I'm Canadian and have been out of school for over 40 yrs. When I went to high school we only had to take French for 3 months in grade 8. After that it was your choice if you wanted to take it. I'm in B.C. and our biggest sport in the winter was either basketball or skiing.
Her comments are particular to Ontario. That is not applicable to other provinces.
Yes she made that clear at the beginning.
At the high school I went to they have an “iB” program, it’s for students who have achieved a grade that is a 92+(A+), I had a girl in my geography, math, and English class that had a 95 in geo, a 92 in English, and a 97 in math…. She quickly got switched to the “iB” program because of those grades at the end of the semester
French is mandatory as a second language in Canada from Grades 4-9, but most students start learning basic French in Kindergarten or Grade 1.
Back in the late 70’s we only got French in grades seven and eight ( 2 periods a week) In high school, we had to take it for grades 9 and 10. ( 5 periods a week).
Good that they have expanded the curriculum!
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Actually French is not mandatory in schools. At least the catholic highschool I went to growing up in Sask, rather than take regular classes taught in English, students could opt for basic classes taught in French immersion, or you just take French as an elective. Not required. And in elementary school, for some reason they gave the parents a choice to either have their kids take a French class or a Native Studies class. In high school Native Studies was offered as an elective as was Spanish.
not in my day. Didnt start french till grade 4 to 9. In Quebec English high school it's madatory. And you're expected to know french so grade 10 and 11 was playing cards while the teacher read newspaper. They don't want English kids to succeed in Quebec. I got 98% in science and math but never got my diploma cause I didn't pass french. My final exam I grade 11 was a 10 minute debate on ecology, lol. I just said every french word I knew which took 2 minutes. They gave me a fail of 59% to keep their school from looking bad. I should've gotten a 2%
@@highstreetkillers4377 And you think French kids having to learn English isn't also a disadvantage for some? A certain level of English is obligatory in University otherwise you have to take extra classes at University prices even if your BA has nothing to do with English and even after aaaaall the obligatory English classes we get from elementary school through Cegep. No need to make it political here. I sucked at math and it cost me more advanced English classes, am I oppressed by the government for it? No. Now if your high school teacher wasn't even teaching French, that's the school's problem, not the province's fault.
Also, learning a second language is extremely enriching in life. It opens doors, it makes you learn about linguistic in a manner your mother tongue can't really provide you of the same experience. It gives you an insight in cultural aspects of the people using that language that you wouldn't get otherwise. Not to mention how great it is for your brain. I do think every country should make monumental effort to teach a second language to their kids with fluency in mind. Obviously not all will achieve it, but those who will will cherish it.
Mayhaps language isn't your forte or you felt so wronged having to learn French that you just didn't put the effort in it. Math and Science wasn't my cup of tea and it cost me 1 summer and entry in some universities for a BA in the psychology field, but I pushed through nonetheless. Those damn science nerds don't want me to succeed in life...smh
@@TheAnnez0r You are so right, learning another language is enriching. Your brain is improved by learning different subjects. Kids saying that why do I have to learn this if I don't need it. Even so, your brain and learning is enhanced.
Canadian here; when I was in high school I was such a argumentative little contrarian, at one point I didn’t stand up for the national anthem (they play it over the speakers and everyone stands in silence), my teacher tried to send me to the principals office but it’s actually in the rule book that students do not actually have to participate in the national anthem and I didn’t get in trouble.
I’ve grown up a lot since then, but that was a fun little win for 15yr old me (‾ʖ̫‾)
Tyler, why don't you do a video on political parties in the two countries?
That could be difficult because there would be no party in Canada to compare the Republicans to. You may make a case of comparing the Conservatives to the Democrats but since the Conservative party in Canada is for universal health care they would be to the left of most Democratic politicians.
@@2727rogers It's interesting that Canada had six parties compete in the last federal election, while the U.S. only has two. Not only that, but both U.S. parties are broadly speaking liberal, although the Republicans are closer to classical liberalism, while the Democrats are closer to social liberalism.
@@nickd4310 I guess what is Liberal in the US compared to what is Liberal in Canada is completely different. Both of the parties in the US would not be considered Liberal in any way. Neither even come close to what the voters actually want. Never have and it looks like in the near future they will never be. This explains the pitiful voter turn outs in your elections. To most people there is no actual choice.
@@2727rogers The historical meaning of the liberal, which is used in political science, is support of capitalism, individualism, equality and constitutional government. The U.S. is unique in that all major parties have always been founded on these principles and the debate is about what they mean and how best to achieve them.
FDR used the terms liberal and conservative as a way of demeaning his opponents, which is when they came into use with their modern meaning. Canadians have also adopted this terminology to a great extent.
@@nickd4310 I would agree that is a definition of Lberal but even by that definition neither the Republicans nor Democrats would be considered Liberal.
It depends where you live in Canada. In Ontario high school starts at grade 9. Junior high in Ontario is grade 7 and 8. But in Alberta junior high school starts at grade 7 to 9. 3 years. And high school starts at grade 10 to 12. So different. Some places have middle school which starts at grade 6 to 8 I think. But we don't have that in Alberta that I am aware of.
They sure had detention when I was in school, and the strap.
Me too. I can still remember getting into a fight in grade 2 and the sound the strap made on the vice principal's desk as he "warmmed it up" . Lol
In the 70's they did in Ontario
The scores resulting in grades are different across the country.
Universities grant degrees (Bachelor, Masters, PhD) where colleges grant diplomas, certificates, and some job training programs. Some colleges have courses that are accepted at universities towards the first 2 years of a Bachelor degree.
Proof that americans don't even understand basic math , A,B,C,D,F or 12,3,4,5 so , it's 100 divided by 5 = 20 , so 5 is 20 4 is 20 3 is 20 2 is 20 and 1 is 20, according to value sharing , you could divide within the 20's for + and - , but , this is BASIC math , In the U.S as a Canadian student who moved there as an 11 year old , I was doing 5th grade math in High school in the U.S, complete $hit show ...it's called the dumbing down of multi generations , the U.S encourages foreigners to come here for talent because , you know , they can't vote ,
😆 spot on
And yet more than half of the world's Top 10 universities are in the U.S.. Top 20 -- same story. And Canada? ... To use your fave word: sorry.
@@SilvanaDil worlds first liver transplant , Canada , world's first kidney transplant , Canada , Insulin , Canada , first lung transplant Canada there are hundreds of medical firsts in Canada , we dont treat illnesses , we cure them , U.S just turns everyone into pill junkies ... Oxford isn't in the U.S , Cambridge isn't in the U.S McGill isn't in the U.S oh , and many of the finest professors in Ivy league schools Canadians ....LOL, space science , Canadians , the pressurized space suit , Canadian , space vacuum hydraulics , Canadian , rocket engineers for NASA for Mercury , Apollo space shuttle even Spacex . Canadians , all the finest schools in the U.S have professors from other countries ,because americans are too stupid to teach ..The U.S is only good at one thing , and one thing only ok 2 things war and domestic violence
I’ll like to add, that as in anything, Quebec is once again different. We have secondary school instead of high school that goes from grade 1 to 5. That takes you to 11 grade. Then you have CÉGEP (college) where you have two options: a 2 year pre-university degree (that covers 12th grade and the first year of university) or technical degrees mostly for trades or firefighter, police officers and nurses. The interesting part is that they cost like 300$/year…
After that universities offer 3 or 4 year programs for a bachelor’s. (Teacher is a 4 year program).
From what I understand if someone from the US or another province wants to come to study here, say to McGill university in Montreal, they have to do an extra year before starting some programs because of the extra year we do in CÉGEP.
Also university can’t cost more than 1800$/semester… there are no private universities here… and there is financial aid for those who need it that cover’s the cost.
Hi! I'm from around Montreal, Quebec, so I will provide info on Quebec's public school system.
- Preschool (maternelle) will be for 4 and 5 years old.
- Primary school (primaire) - grades primary 1 to 6 - will be for 6 to 12 years old students.
- Secondary - Highschool (secondaire) - grades secondary 1 to 5 - will be for 12 to 17 (could go to 18) years old students.
- CEGEP - General and Professional Education College (CÉGEP - Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel) will be for 17 years old or more students. Students are awarded a DEC - Diploma of College Studies (or Diplôme d'études collégiales, DEC) which is needed to apply for University.
- University (Université) variable age.
- We do not have AP classes in Quebec.
- Sports - Yes we do have competing sports in our secondary schools, but football will not always be the main one. There's also (in no particular order) basketball, volleyball, handball, soccer, badminton, tennis, golf, lacross. Members of those teams and the Chearleaders are not put up as rulers of the schools, they are just participants to after school sports. The coaches will usually be Gym class teachers or other teachers.
- Nurses - It will depend on the school or how big the school is. Other schools will have a nurse visiting 2 or 3 times a week.
- English/French classes - Second language classes are given from the first to the 6th grades of the of the primary. Students will have 1 or 2 sessions per week.
For the secondary/highschool students, they will 3 sessions of secondary language.
Some secondary schools/highschools will have intensive English programs. The school year will be split in two; 5 month in English and 5 month in French.
- If asked in what grade you are (or your child is), in Quebec we will say "Primary first, second... sixth", or "Secondary first, second... fifth". There are no grades in the CEGEPs.
- Yep! In Quebec we do not pledge allegiance to the flag in the schools. But do not get me wrong, we do love our Country and Province and we are prepared to defend them.
- In USA, I'm pretty sure that football and basketball coaches are paid more than the teachers.
Good job Shandy. 👍
Cheers! 😉
In general the more highly populated cities, (IE: Toronto) elementary school in Canada run from kindergarten to grade 6, junior high or middle school runs from grades 7-8, some middle schools grades 7,8 and 9, and high school runs from grades 9,-12. smaller cities and towns primary school (grade JK to grade 8) and secondary school (grade 9 to 12)
In my experience as a born-and-raised Canadian and educator in the Canadian system, letter grading (ie. A+, A, A-, B+, B, etc.) is not common nation-wide. Percentages and fraction grades are typically the standard, nationally-speaking, and letter grading is secondary to percentages. In other provinces outside of Ontario, universities and colleges also consider the percentage average of grades 10, 11 and 12. They average percentage grades of core curriculum classes and pre-requisital subjects (ie. english, math, biology, chemistry, history, etc.), as well as a select number of the highest graded electives of the student (eg. French, photography, drama, band, art, carpentry, psychology, robotics, etc.). Standardized testing does take place periodically throughout a student's entire education experience before post-secondary in order to make sure that the education system set in place is currently working and benefiting the students. There is no university or college entrance exam in Canada, like the girl mentioned.
Most high schools have footballs teams, but she is right, it is taken as seriously as any other sport. As for hockey, I have only seen hockey teams in very few schools.
I have never seen a detention program in Canadian schools, either. I have only seen and participated in counselling sessions with misbehaving students, where a conversation is held between the teacher and student, sometimes a school counsellor and student, and if things are really bad, among the student, their parents and an educator. Suspensions and expulsions are typically last resort solutions.
Though there may not be a school nurse in a high school, there is usually a nurse station or office, where an ill student can go to lie down, take a nap, calm down in a private room, or receive medical attention from a teacher.
Regarding core French language education in Anglo-Canada, it is my experience that it is not an overly effective system, despite the fact that the language is taught for years in elementary school. Most students do not retain much French knowledge or even seem to care to learn the language at that age, which sometimes results in students not wanting to take French in high school, but rather no language classes, or alternative ones like German, Japanese or Spanish (it depends on what is available at the school, of course).
Excellent video! Shandy did a great job in her comparison and this video by Tyler is very enlightening. Thanks for making it. :)
24:00 (The difference between college and universities in Canada) (because she didn't elaborate, and Tyler asked).
Colleges are typically 3-year programs, and focused on more practical and trade-based fields. Universities are typically 4-year programs, and focused a bit more on the higher academic, more theory-based fields.
Basically where you will go depends very much on what sort of career you're planning on having after.
There might be another big difference, but someone else might have to explain this one to ME!
I was watching another video where US college students were being quizzed. Most of the freshman asked what they wanted to study there responded with "I dunno" or "I haven't decided." That confused me quite a bit. Do US college students really apply to college and begin attending with no specific career path in mind? In Canada, you have to pick the program leading to earning the degree or diploma you'll need for your later career as you apply to the college. "What are you here to study?" is a decision already made before they set foot on the campus for the first time (and indeed, might be the main factor in choosing which post-secondary institution to attend).
Granted, students do sometimes change their mind and swich programs (as they learn more about what their hoped-for career is really like) but you can't attend a Canadian college or university to study "something to be determined later". How would you know which classes you need to take?
If you're not in a specific program, what is the first year of a US college for, academically speaking?