most countries in Europe don't have school buses. Kids simply walk to school, use public transport or are dropped by parents on their way to work

Kids start walking/biking to school quite early here. Before then, a parent will walk/drive them there. My kids are 9 and 10 years old and they walk to school every morning and sometimes I pick them up after work, sometimes they walk home.

School buses aren't really a thing in most of Europe from what I know (maybe somewhere they have them, but it's most definitely not a normal thing here). Most places are pedestrian friendly and have reliable and accesible public transport. It's safe too.

Kids here that lives far enough from school (It was over 5km away where I grew up) gets a card that lets them go for free on public transportation. The busses are scheduled to be able to get the kids to school till they begin their days. And to add, public transport here is really safe. If you live closer, you usually walk or take the bike to school

the swedish school system is very similar to the belgian school system. they're identical, i didn't know that. what surprises me is that american students don't go ice skating or hiking with the school

The schedule that was shown was his own and only shows the classes he teaches. Students schedule look completely different.

11:39 I live in Norway, not Sweden, but it's common here for older kindergarten kids to walk to kindergarten. Parents or older siblings will often invest time into keeping an eye on them on the way there.

We have a high tax in Sweden but it goes to parents leave so they can stay with their children and get paid when their children are sick, then free hospital care, and if a mother gave birth to a baby both mother and father can take parents leave and still get paid from their jobs, then free education in various professions, then if you get sick you get compensation 80 procent out of your salary, then every summer you have 4 weeks full paid vacation 😁🍻 which I long for, but I will take 3 weeks holiday I save one week holiday when it's Christmas Eve, have Nice day 🙂, 🇸🇪

We do not have school buses in that meaning in Sweden, the school children use the ordinary public transportation, but those are normally adjusted to fit school hours. Schools for lower ages are usually very nearby and in walking distance from were the child lives. Regarding to swim; The children must be able to swim 200 meters of which 50 meters in supine position, else they will fail in school. A correction: Lunch is not free for teachers, unless they eat with the schoolchildren.

In Sweden as in ireland there is less school transport most students use public transport which is free. If the school is near we walk or use a bicycle to get to school.

There are a few things he talked about in the video that does not apply to all schools in Sweden. At the school where I teach (grade 0-5) the students and teachers stay in the same classroom for all classes except PE and crafts (I think you in the us call it shop-class). We have some breaks at the same time every day. For example we start at 08.20 every morning and the first break is at 09.50. Also most days all students end their lessons at the same time (except mondays and thursdays) so the school busses picks up the few kids that need a ride at the same time every day. The schedule he showed you was his own teacher schedule and not a student one. Also there are som differences in schedule depending on what grade you are in. In the lower grades (0-6) in the county where I work you have the same teacher basically all the time. Except for subjects like PE and shopclass. I don't think he mentioned it but students here doesn't get grades, like real grades, until 6th grade. In the lower classes 0-5 they get a "report". The report only says if they have passed, passed beyond expectations or if they have failed. Grade with F-A is only given from sixth grade and to our last year of "high school". The thing about lunches being free depends on county to county. At one school where I worked the teachers bought cupoons that lasted for a school year and you used those if you wanted to eat in the cafeteria. In the school where I work now the teachers responsible for the class gets to eat for free (the personal assistants students have as well) while teachers that are not responsible (think homeroom teachers) for a class has to pay.

school busses isn't that big of a thing in Sweden, but there are a few. For example, I used to take the school buss before I got my license, the buss would leave for school at 7:12 AM and 9:10 AM, and then it would drive back from school once every hour between 1PM to 4PM. The busses don't necessarily match up with one's schedule, so you'll just have to take the best option, either asking to leave earlier from class, or wait for an hour after school. and in the mornings you'd just have to either get to school super early, or be late

In Germany, kids in elementary school usually walk to school (at first with their parents, later with classmates - e.g. I "collected" three classmates on my way to elementary school) or they ride scooters or bikes or use public transport. We have school buses, but they are part of the regular p.t. They sometimes use different routes than normal lanes, skip stops, or have additional stops, but anybody with a valid ticket can use them. Students can purchase monthly tickets with a subsidized price (1/3 to 1/2 of a regular monthly ticket) and can use it 24/7 365 days of the year for the whole regional net (at least in our net with more than 12000 km² or more than 4600 square miles). If students visit a district school (mandatory school i.e. all elementary schools and Hauptschulen) and the school is farther away than 4km or 2.5 miles the ticket is free.

There are only school buses for areas that don't have any public transportation and are located far away from school. Like 10+ kilometers away.(6.2 US miles) Many cycle and walk and half of the students usually use public transport by themselfs from the age of 7.

Some areas have school buses, but then you have to live a certain distance from the school and not all regions offer it. I always walked or biked when I was in elementary school and the when I went to high school in the city I simply took public transportation (bus and tram) - as did all of my friends ☺️ the schedule he showed is not all that different from my high school schedule, my senior year I started at noon on Mondays, had a three hour gap on Tuesdays, finished at 1pm on Thursdays and was off Fridays 👍 so there’s a lot more variety and freedom here in Sweden. I would say one of the biggest differences though: we don’t need to ask for a hall pass to go to the bathroom!

Sweden tends to overhaul their grade system once a decade. Give it a few years and it will be different. When I received grades (around 1990) it was numbers 5-1 (and a theoretical - if you had been completely absent and never done any test or assignment). It was kind of messed up because the national average grade was suppose to be exactly 3. But 3 was also the passing grade with 2 being a fail and a 1 being just terrible. They had like 5 bracket guidelines where 10% were suppose to get a 5, 25% 4, 30% 3, 25% 2, 10% 1 (roughly, the important thing was the average of 3 ). But that meant that the goal was to fail (grade 1 or 2) about a third of the students. which is probably not a good goal to set for education.

as I remember it school started 8:15 every day from grade 1-6 and ended pretty much the same time the first 3 years but when the school day ended varied a bit year 4-6 and then 7-9 it was more varied both start and end. Grade 1-6 we had our own classroom but also just 1 or 2 teachers except for PE of course that was PE teachers and either outside or in the gymnasium and for woodwork and sewing there were of course also special teachers and class rooms. Grade 7-9 we had different rooms for different classes and different teachers for different subjects and also had home economics in classrooms with kitchens. We either walked to school or was dropped off by our parents the first years but 7-9 grade we took public transportation. Students who lived further away had a school bus or school taxi if it was just 1 or a few students. But schools are usually not far apart/away so you can just walk.

4:27 It is rare that there is special school rides in Sweden. Most of the times, the kids would take the normal public transport if they live too far from school unless their parents are able to drive them. The schools usually give them a card to stamp on the bus for the region they attend school in. It is usually to a lower price than the ordinary prices and it is the school's responsability to hand them these. And this bus card usually last from 6 in the morning to 7:30 in the evening, and they can also use it outside of school hours, like teacher's days and holidays. Not on Saturday and Sunday though. At least that's how it was while I was attending school, long ago :P

So i live in Sweden and have a 12 year old. She takes the School bus to and from the school every day. The school starts the same a time for every one at that school. But they leave school a little different every day, but the school bus leavs at the same time for everyone. There is a "Fritids" at every school that they can stay at until the bus leaves, they can hang with their friends there, get help with homework, play games and so on.

I just want to add to all the comments about school buses not really being a thing in Sweden. It's true that the classic yellow school bus is not something you see. However, if you live far out from the city/town, more often than not some sort of school bus exists. It usually only goes once in the morning, so if you start late that day, you'll either have to get to school some other way or just wait in the school for your class to start. In the afternoon it usually is one or two routes, and they try to schedule it so no kid has to wait for too long to get home. Also, in Sweden all kids under a certain age (I think maybe like 9 or 11?) has to be offered after school care. So for example, in elementary school the youngest kids would only have classes to about 12 or 1. They would then go to the after school programme (which is sometimes in their own classroom), and the older students would join after their day ended. The oldest kids, who would be around 10 years old, might get off at around 3. The school bus would then leave at 3.10 for example, expecting the younger kids to be in the after school programme until then. At least that's how it worked in the schools I know of that had quite a lot of kids living far from the school!

04:32. Like alot of people have said most kids dosen't use school busses to get home. But if you live very far away from school and public transport cant be used there will be a school buss. In our school the buss goes after everyones last class. If one class ends earlier they will just have to ask their parents to take them home or just whait for the buss.

3:48 Those aren't the student's school hours, but his own personal teaching hours as a teacher. I'm pretty sure his students have a much more regular schedule with a fixed starting time and finishing time every day, and a more completely filled day. I'm a teacher in Belgium, and my teaching schedule as a teacher looks something like that too, but that doesn't mean my student's schedule looks like that... They have class from 8h25 or 9h15 until 15h45 or 16h35 (except wednesday untill 12h00) on a regular schedule. And they don't have open unfilled hours like we teachers do, but have continuous class throughout the day, with a few breaks and a lunch break. And of course, as a teacher, those are just your actual teaching hours. Everything else falls outside or inbetween those hours here. You might only teach 20h per week, but all other work like preparing classes, assignments, tests, etc, grading, and so on isn't included in that time. Downside is your work outside your teaching hours isn't really counted officially. Upside is you have to work less hours to work full time (for me it's 20h per week here in Belgium too), you don't really have to be at school outside of your teaching hours, and you can do your other work like grading where and when you want... PS 4:20 Schoolbusses aren't a thing in many parts of Europe. That seems to be very much a N-american thing. Students just use public transit or bike or walk to school here. Here in Belgium it's not that exceptional at all for some kids to bike 5-10km to school everyday. There are special school busses that serve very remote areas, or as a service from the communty, but they are rare since public transit is usually just as easy and fast.

I grew up in a small village here in Sweden in the 1970’s and we actually had a school bus. In first grade we got a free bus card but from second grade we had to pay. I can't have been very expensive though, because my parents could pay it, and we were not rich. The distance to my school was 1.5 km (a little less than a mile) and as far I remember we usually didn't take the bus, at least not from third grade. We walked or took our bicycles to school. These days I think it's a little different.

I take the bus to school since I live too far away to simply walk or take my bike. There’s busses in Sweden but not school buses. It’s just local busses that picks me up and drops me off closer to the school. I still have to walk for about 10 minutes to get to my school after I get off the bus.

I was born and bred in East London, till I was 50. I have now lived in Andalucia, southern Spain, for 20 years and school buses are the norm here. Not a special bus but a normal coach paid for by the local governments.

there's not really any school busses, but there's usually a bus station outside of the school and those busses comes every 15 minutes

04:26 - We don't have school buses (unless you live far out in the countryside which then it's only a small amount of students at a time) it's public transportation. You use public transportation. Or a parent drive you.

There is no school bus per say, as in America, however the public transportation is very safe, and people do generally step in If theres some asshole harrasing kids etc. Also the buses usually goes every 15 mins or so, or in larger cities even every 5-7 minutes. Regarding grades they are currently using the system A, B, C, D, E & F. The coloring systems is only for teachers to be able to correctly sort out the grades to give.

4:31 Public transportation. You just take busses with other passengers, or at least that's how we do it in many parts of Norway.

My Swedish high school schedule back in 2002-2005 would often have those empty gaps like the one at 3:55 for some days, and that was pretty awesome, for sure; especially if that day was a Friday or a Monday (or even both days at the same time if we were REALLY lucky, like if some lesson was cancelled or something).

When I was young in the 90's, I lived in the middle of nowhere. I had a school bus picking me up 7 am. Then going on a 45 min route picking up kids all over. If I didn't have classes until later in the day, I still had to take the bus. And find something to do while waiting for classes xD

we don't often have schoolbusses that are only for stundets. we have regular public transportation busses that go throughout the day, and if you are a student you can travel for free on weekdays using a busscard that you are given.

It all depends on what school in some of these. In my school the teachers had their own classrooms and the students changed classrooms.

In Sweden we don't have school busses. Theres almost a school in every area, which means almost every kid can walk/bike to school. And also get a car ride from your parent. If you live further than like 3-4 km away from the school, u can have a schooltaxi picking you up every morning. When it comes to high schools, they are usually more in the city. In my city we have 4 high schools and they are all downtown. Everyone takes the public transport, and in my city we have free public transport for school kids. And if you go to preschool, of course you ride with your parents when they go to work. A kid is at preschool the time parents are at work so they leave them when going to work, and pick them up when they quit work.

you asked about the bus, in sweden the school are paying for the bus and it comes like every 10 minutes, so whenever u end ur day there will always bee an bus there for ya// me from sweden

We don't really have a school bus system in Sweden we have normal public transport where students living a long distance from their school (I think it's 5km+ from the school) can get free travel to and from school, it's called "skolkort" literarily meaning "school-card" in Swedish. We have school bus-lines to some extent in places without a nearby bus route passing by but it's often the local bus company operating those lines and if there are not that many students in that area they can get a Taxi replacing a bus.

The schools are obligated to give students who live a certain amount of kilometers aways, bus or train passes and sometimes both. These are excepted by the general public transportation system.

School buses here in Sweden work differently (I think), according to my own experience of them you have to meet a certain quota to be able to be picked up by the bus in the morning (it only picks you up in the morning, around 5 or 6, maybe 7). The quota you have to reach is that you have to live very far away from the school to be able to be picked up by a bus, for me it was farther away than 2 km (a 30 minute walk from my home). 2 km is roughly 1.24 miles. You have to live further away from that to get a bus ride to school everyday (I got a ride once but it was a special condition for me as I could barely walk to school that day). However, for me this quota was never reached so I had to walk 2 km/1.24 miles to school for 5 days straight as primary school always began around 8:00 AM every weekday (5 days a week, up 5:00 AM every morning, changed to 4:00 AM when I started high school, and then eventually 3:00 AM on extremely early days.) Hopefully this clears up the bus questions.

There are no schoolbusses. Not as US have it. Many have a busscard and use the publictransportation system. To get a busspass you are required to live a certain distance from the school to be able to get the buss card.

No School buses. kinder graders start early by design so that parents can drop them off before work but once you turn 6 (my case and alot else around me) i started walking to school/rode my bike

About the fact that teachers move from class to class while students stay, that's mostly a thing from grades 1-6, after that both the teachers and the students move around but you usually have the same class in the same room every week but teachers can have different students in different classrooms

The public transportation is very very good regulated here in Sweden, it doesn’t exist school busses here. Kids either walk take the bus to school or the parents drop them off, the last one mentioned is mostly by the upper class families. / Swedish

im from sweden a bit late but we do have school buses at least out side of the main cities and they all come in at the same time every morning even if you dont have a class in the morning you still need to take the bus to get to school or you have to get to school on your own allot of parents do drop of there kids and pick them up after school but ofc not every one can do that the buss home come two times a day one around 1pm and one around 4pm

The most important difference: in the US, schools in privileged areas get a lot more funding than poorer schools due to schools being financed via property taxes, which is so incredibly stupid and cruel. In Sweden, schools in poorer areas, i.e. those in need, get more resources.

In Europe in general are no school busses. We have public transport which is free for schoolars in general and the kindergarten is not in the other side of the city.

My kids have walked/biked to school since they started at age 6. You are supposed to go to the school closest to your home so many children walk with their friends or on their own/use public transportation on their own.

I heard the E is excluded in the US because it was misinterpreted to mean "Excellent".

I think most of the things he Said in this video are correct. However there are differences between Where You live and What grade You are in (speaking from a students POV). For an example, at my school We eat at restaurants/in a food-court completely for free, the school pays the restaurants towards the end of the month after That. The school usually keeps track of That by getting a set price of How much the school Will be paying per student at lunch and then giving the students either a card to pay with or food coupons/vouchers.

I grew up in the woods, about 6 km away from my first school, and everyone that lives more than 3 km away from a school has the right to "school transport". Since this was a school for kids that lived in tiny villages we all had the same times everyday, except that the smaller ones finished earlier (so there was two rides every afternoon). We were considered to small to take public transportation in grade 0-5. We moved into the city school, 20 km away, in 6th grade. We then got school transport to and from the nearest bus stop where public buses stopped (which was exactly 3 km away for me). This transport between the home and the bus had one time i the morning and one time in the afternoon. I remember that my class got to sleep in every monday but I had to be at school at the same time if my parents didn't drive me to the bus or the school. If I finished school a bit early I also had to wait for the usual bus. The choice was to take an earlier bus and then walk the 3 km from the bus stop. I only did that when I finished school REALLY early. I didn't enjoy to walk 3 km on a dirt road in the middle of the woods, especially not in the winter when it wasn't unusual to be snowing so it was extra heavy to walk (we had snow about 5-6 month of the year). So, every kid that needs it has the right to school transportation in Sweden except if you choose a private school that is far away from your home. It's the parents responsibility then since they made the choice to move the kid.

Scool bus is an american think. IMO 'cause U have large suburb and U are a Car designed country. Here in Italy we have some place where the scool bus is needed but is not own by the scool, is owned by the municipality and serve just a small portion of student who lived really isolated or in countryside, The most have a public transport season ticket.

Just a few have schoolbus, the children walk or take the bike. If they live far away, they go by school taxi or bus. The order children go by regularisering public transport

Lol. We don´t have school busses. Just really good regular public transportation.

No school buses in winter ski cross country

in sweden we dont really have the typical american schoolbusses unless a student lives too far from public busses. we get given a metro card that works on public metro and then we travel to school ourselves. this is usually only in higher grades as most kids that are too young to take public metro to school usually have a school that they go to near them. at least this is how it was for me. I do not know how it is in bigger cities like stockholm or gothenburg but for my 100,000 population city it was like that

School buses is a Amerikan thing here in sweden public transtort or you walk, bicycles to Schools yes in remote areas there is school buses.

We dont really have a school bus system. If a kid needs transport home the state mostly just hires taxis for the kids

When family’s in sweden move they always move in to a house apartment that’s near a school or nursey cause many people take the bike or walk to school but if you in high school or university you usully take the train or bus to the school

Yea, we all use public transit in Europe and even kids at age 7-8 start using it to go to school by themselves

In Sweden you can for the most part get a free bus card from the government that you can use to get to school

Speaking of the school bus and strange schedule: living in the countryside-ish parts, I remember that the one bus always went at the same time so that all the kids could get on. In other words: if you had a day when your classes ended at 1 pm, the bus would still not arrive until about 3 pm. It sucked if you didn't have a parent or a friend that could come pick you up. x,D

It is only children that live in the countryside far from school that have schoolbuses,otherwise we go,bicycling or take ordinarie busses or trames😊

Never heard about school busses in Scandinavia. You take the normal bus in the direction you need. They tend to run every 7 minutes. A bus is as easy as getting in your own car here. They go everywhere almost 24 hours a day. There's hardly any time you cant get on a bus. I use to get on around 7 in the morning and those busses runs very late. Probably till 1 am at least. Some longer.. We have no need for school busses at all. Even in the most ridiculous place in some dark forrest a bus will come by every hour. At my mums you say stop at the blacksmith and he does. Even though its been 50 years since it was a blacksmith.. 😎

There are no school buses. Kids just use public transport to get to school if they live away from the school. Otherwise most go with a bicycle or by foot to school

There are no real "school buses" in Sweden unless u have special needs, the buses go regularily and kids take the bus, train or tube, but the parents get money from the state to pay for transportation for the students up to a certain age(15 I think), and after that the students get a "ride free" card which they can use to travel for free The pay isn't as high in any work area due to the taxes, but then again almost every important expensive thing for parents to take care of their kids is free

Its a bit late to answer, but anyway for anyone that read.. as a swede! In junior grades 1-3 I did walk or take my bicycle to shool.. I was always late becuse the shool was at least a kilometer away! 4-6 grade another shool, walk, bicycle or take public transportation! 7-9 grade.. I was living in the countryside then, walk, bicycle about a kilometer to get to the shool bus in time!

I disagree with the Tax point, sure we have a high income tax, but that's it. In US you have a lower incme tax, but then you have another 3 diffrent taxes that add upp to a higher % of your paycheck. Not to mention Healthcare (wich are free in sweden) and sales tax (wich is stupid) In sweden the sales tax is incorporated in the price tag, so if there is a price on the tag, that's what you pay at checkout.

I would say both teachers and students move classrooms but most often the students, teachers rarely move classrooms

As I remember: if you är 7-12 years old and have more than 2 kilometer to the closest busstop or 13-15 and have more than 5 kilometer, the community will pay for bus. When I grow up, they were planning so that all kids from my village that was 13-15 years old, finnished school att the same time. And also 8-12 years old started and stopped att the same time. My children had less than 2 kilometer, so they walked to school.

Usualy your parent drives when your young other wise you bike even in cold weathers ofmr if you live far away go by public transport. If you live really far away the government will give you a school buss card that you can only use on work days/school days, that makes the public transprotqtion free. But if you attendance falters you will have to pay a type of fine

Most countries don't have school buses. You have to get to school by walking, cycling, taking local buses or trains or your parents drop you off and pick you up. I got a free train and bus pass to commute to school.

We have buses to the young ones. But then you take the comunebus, often comes every 15 minutes. And it is not far to walk to the bus stop. Or tram.

Like many have said. We do have school buses but only where regualr public transportation is insufficient. I work at a school on the countryside. Here there are three different buses named a color. The are trafficking different routes and cover the geographical area around the school. Some students have some lessons in another school in the city (like home economics) so they get a school buscard so they can use the public transportation to get there. Also, the school is close to a big road and many kids live on the other side of it, so they all get a school buscard so they don't have to cross the road. In more urban areas, they don't have school buses. The students that need to use public transportation to get to school gets a free school buscard valid for the entire year. There are often some restrictions though, like only two trips/day or not valid between this and that time.

he is a teacher and he doesn´t know that America is a continent and that United States is the country........America has manny countries...Canada, USA, Mexico, Guatemala, San Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Guayana, Argentina, Chile etc...

Think that in whole Europe kids walk or use public transportation to get to school.or dropped by parents if school starts same time as their work. That's probably why our kids are more independent than us kids. I was 5 when I walked half of a way alone to kindergarten coz next year I was starting school so I had to manage traffic on my own, like crossing street. Think I was 7 when I had to use public transportation on my own. In my country we have buses but only for kids from surrounding villages which are more than 10km from school I think. Coz kids who were in villages like 5km from city were coming with train.

(THIS COMMENT IS AFTER THE BUS ONE, DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE THE BUS ONE TOO LONG) Here in Sweden, in order to get an E grade in PE class you have to know how to swim (basically you have to swim a certain amount of distance), this system basically screw me over because of how I was as a kid, I was always WAY too careful for my age and never really learnt how to swim at all (even with extra lessons), so I never got a grade in PE class and basically failed that class, even if my other criteria for getting a grade was good. It is one thing that irked me but this is a system that is ONLY in primary schools in Sweden and not in high schools and above which made me happy tbh.

Students aren't allowed in the teacherroom. It's kind of their heaven ^^

School buses aren't even required in Sweden and Nordic Countries as they really have Amazing transport system where each and every age Group can travel very easily. I think That's reason we don’t have School buses Here :) Moreover I asked Swedes What do they think about US and some said Educational system and hospital are not that good in US.

Also, kids bike to school at around 6 years old, they're masters on a bike at 6. So they tend to be seen very young going round corners without touching the handlebars. I could brake for red in 1st grade and go round corners without any problems. My klasselærer = danish koncept. Would see me and tell me off for being that reckless as she called it. Wouldn't work nowadays as bikes only have racing brakes and not the ones we used in the 70's 😏. If you dont bike to school you take the bus at 6 too. Yiu can see kids getting on busses and trains all day long here. Some even live in a shitty area so they have a 2 hour bus ride on several busses. In Japan kids start doing all this at 5. And thats in Tokyo. They're used to it and also know what they're doing like here, so there's no problem with doing that. We dont really have weirdos on the bus, so you can take a bus daily for 20 years without anything happening. All the yelling and figthing USA has in public transport is very very rare. Personally I've never seen anything. Well i saw a clip of 2 teens banging away in front of 20 people whilst being filmed. But that's youtube.. 😅

But you dont compare the shool. ..just how as a teacher finde it??

We have community busses here so they are not linked to the shool-sytem becsuce the runn all days..

Often you live close to your school and can get dropped off or walk

4:23 There are no school busses in Sweden

You should put a link in the description to the original video. That's a bare minimum.

In Greenland they told us to always have 2 big nails in our pocket to help you get out if you fell through the ice. Never happend so I dont know if it works.

But I believe in högstadiet that you have to switch classrooms cause that’s what I had to do and I went to 7th-9th grade in teh 2010s so probably has not changed

It's true that EU countries pay higher taxes, but also the tax money actually go to help people, fund new roads, healthcare, money for people in need etc. Still being a teacher is quite good here when you consider all pros and cons, also no school buses. Students either walk, use bike, take the regular bus or drive. Or their parents take them to school sometimes, depends on age and personality.

Fun fact: in my shcool most student dosent like the food so much. But I do.😋

As a swede I have no idea what kind of weird colour grade system he is talking about. Neither does my mother who happens to be a teacher. Must be something that just happens in the school he works at.

Yea thats so that school food is free!

We use public buses

If a swede lives x amounts of kilometers from thier school they get a card that they can use to go with the bus to thier school.

Btw, why do you have to pay monye to go to school?

no school buses in Europe

The grades system is just different. The US is not better.

I can answer the school bus question. We dont have school buses

And we call our teachers by their first name not second

As a PE teacher why do you need your own classroom, surely you work in gym or field.

our children cycle or take the regular bus, or the parents drive the children to school

We have school buses

So glad we don´t have USAs way to teach! Literally, most points here isn´t the win it is ^^