How does the education system in America work?

[A-list player786]

ok..here in south africa we have 12 grades and at the end of the 12th grade we write a national exam which is controlled by the educational department of south africa.The department marks our exam papers and publishes our results.we do subjects like english,afrikaans(indigenous language),maths,history,geography,natural science,technology,etc till grade 9.Thereafter we choose the subjects we want to study further in grade 10 like physical science,biology,accounting,etc.Is the educational system in south africa similar to that of america?what types of subjects do you american children do?please help as i am a bit confused

 

[Lam-a-lam-a-dingdong]

in America our school system is shite compared to schools like yours. our schools they keep it as general as possible we have 12 grades too but it covers everything. If you want to go into a career or specify you have to make sure the credits you get correlate to graduating or you're gonna be staying there till you're 19. If you want to specify in biology and be recognized for it college is a must. and we don't cover technology in grades before 9th haha well i didn't at least but i am in california our school system is at the bottom of the barrel : / We cover biology health english math chemistry(this is highschool) and we have additional classes like physics psychology physiology and a mandatory 2 years of physical education.