´Faith in Islam´ to top Turkish school reform

The same year Turkey had their reform, Poland had it too, but the other way around, ie the 8 year system was changed into 6 classes of primary school, 3 classes of middle school and then secondary education that takes 2.5 years for vocational schools, 3 years for general secondary schools and 4 years for secondary technical schools. Having worked as a teacher, I hated the reform. The 8 year primary school was much better, in my opinion. Education is compulsory in Poland until you´re 18 so no matter how badly the middle school kids behaved, it was impossible to expell them.

Basing curricula on religious teaching is not a new issue to me as well. A few years ago when an abnormal party of ultraq religious idiots got elected they had a similar idea (just replace the word Islamic with Catholic). Fortunately this never came into being as no sane person would approve teaching ie creationism and not teaching evolutionism.

Obligatory single sex schools are a strange concept. people should be free to choose. here, in Ireland there are coeducational as well as single sex schools and you can send your child to whichever you prefer. Oh, and most national schools are catholic but ytou have no problem sending there a child of other faith - religion is not compulsory for them.

Wow, I´ve just checked school leaving and employable age around the world. Apparently school leaving age in Turkey is 14 and employable age is...12? WHAT? I don´t think one should be able to leave school before having the right to vote! 16 is what many EU countries have as a school leaving age and I think it´s way too early

Wow, I was surprised by these numbers... 14 and 12 years old...