Questions of human nature

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To demonstrate my point, let's take today, a really mundane and ordinary day in my life. And i'll compare it to life in the UK as best I remember where appropriate.

Got up at 5 to drive daughter to high school swim team practice before school. (No high School Swim team in UK. No school sports that require practicebefore school starts for the year or for the day. And demand wadges of money for team suits etc (and suits are swim costumes in the UK))

...and high school starts aged 11ish in the UK and lasts for 7 years, although you can leave after 5. And there's no "graduation", but there are exams/quizzes/tests in each of the 3 courses you take when you are a senior (upper 6th/whatever they call it now, they don't use freshman/sophomore/junior/senior)). Universities will demand certain grades in each subject for acceptance. No essay, usually. no Scholarships, either, in the main. Especialy not sports. There is no issue of having to sign a release for coaches to send reports of your student-athlete to interested universities. Most Brits probably won't even be able to make head or tail of that.....

And we're only at 5:45 am in my day. i need to go to bed.

The differences are HUGE