In Norway, school is shit from 1-10th grade (grunnskole) Especially out in the districts. My dad used to teacher outside the city in the rural areas, with the ageing population of teachers, and ass f**ked "kommuner" (small states) run by a dynasty of idiots. Yes a dynasty, the top leaders hierd their family members without education, instead of educated people. This was and is still the situation and a problem today.
Once you go to high school, you have almost complete control of your own education. These schools are very well founded and run, since they are run by the "fylke" (the ward all these small states belong to)
Even if the school after grunnskolen is really good, education is very laid back. We all are very aware that we will do just fine without education, if we can't find jobs, the government will find you one, if you don't have enough money to make the ends meet, the government will provide you with money, if you later in life whish an education, they will help you with it. They even pay people to go to school as long as your guardians don't have a really solid income. They give free books and laptops to everyone, except for the first graders at high school, they only receive free laptops..too bad i was not around when this happened
