Quality of our education system must be pretty good because we start university level English in 11th grade. I'm in my final year of high school now and we get worked very hard indeed! ^^;
Can't believe how relaxed they are about uniform. At my high school, uniform is as strict as you can possibly get! No way in hell they'd let us where a non-regulatory shirt or where our hair out...
Almost all schools in Australia, private or public, require uniform, but public are more flexible with uniforms (e.g. any shoes, jewellery, don't have to tie back long hair, nail polish).
I've been at private schools all my life. The one I'm current...