@wietske The UK…East Anglia to be more precise (the round bit that sticks out of the right hand side near the bottom)…Sort of out in the sticks…

@therearesomewhocallmetim But they always say to us they debate a lot in England, Scotland, Ireland and the US. So that’s weird..

@ghughes the Netherlands.. The south to be exactly. I’m from Noord-Brabant.

@Wietske there are only 3 secondary schools in my town and one is a private school.

@Lunik1 you were distracted too. I reckon by Lizzie ’cause Lizrin is totally a thing.

The private school does all sorts of crap but debating isn’t one.

@Wietske They’re not that common here either. My parents didn’t want to send us there as they believe that school is what you make it it’s not about where you’re taught.

@rachael private schools here are mostly international schools and there are some schools you can do two years of high school in one year, but apart from these schools I would only know about 2-3 private schools. It matters where you’re taught I think, but it doesn’t matter that much. I have the luck of being able to chose of 5 school (I couldn’t really go to 4 of the 9 schools in my town, because they only teach the lowest school level and if I would do that I would always be bored probably, also it would be stupid to chose that if you can do a higher school level) and I think the place where I go to school really matters to me.

@wietske there is a private school (who select their pupils) very near to my school (which has to take everyone)…we generally beat them in results…I have gone to physics lectures in their theatre on school trips leading to jokes about the proletariat and the bourgeoisie meeting

@rachael That time it was Hustle, this time it was Yogscast. Now It’s back to Breaking Bad.

@therearesomewhocallmetim Fun fact: public schools (let’s call them that way) don’t have to take everyone here. I know my school only takes 140 pupils every year nowadays. When I went there it was different. You need to have an advice of your primary school teachers to go to VWO (the kind of school level at my school) and need a score on a test almost everyone makes here in the last year of primary school that needs to be very high. This is for a big part because we have different school levels of course, but it’s also because schools don’t want to get too big and stuff..

@wietske very interesting! our school has nearly 300 in the lower years and around 2000 pupils overall…it wasn’t intended to have that many but everyone wants to go there (it is a good school I guess)

@wietske yeah…we have a party like that here too…The British National Party or BNP…They lost all their parliamentary seats at the last election leading to the joke: “What’s the difference between a bus and the BNP…A bus has seats!”

@therearesomewhocallmetim The problem here is that they are as we call it on “toleration party” at the moment. Which means they made some deals with the current government to get the majority when voting for stuff. The government needed this, because they didn’t have enough people. So this party has a lot of influence in the Netherlands at the moment.. They are called the Party of Freedom.

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@therearesomewhocallmetim Our classes aren’t smaller, but that’s only because we went from 5 classes in second year to 4 classes in third year in my school year. We used to have a classes need to be under 25 students rule, but we don’t have it any more. I think it sucks to have 30 students of 12 years old in front of you as a teacher..

@wietske yeah, small kids are nigh-impossible to control…That is an ironic name for that sort of party

@rachael I’ll have my revenge when I can post Spider-man image macros again

@therearesomewhocallmetim It’s about online piracy, but still it’s an awesome name.. The got 0,11% seats in the elections, so they didn’t do that bad..

@therearesomewhocallmetim for some of the pirate parties their symbol is the jolly roger….

Which i an awesome day of the year!

@lunik1 yeah, same…I knew about it last year but not when it was

*forever alone*

yay hi :3

ok u???

ya alot of people have been asking me why im so sad but im almost never sad im just quiet

HI @lunik1