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Hi Cody
The Vietnamese education system is the same as the one you know but is Monday to Saturday and only about 4 hours a day of school. Most private Vietnamese School has school uniforms, but it really depends on if the school either is private or public because a privet school has a better school campus, better teachers and lower student teacher ratio. However the school fees often were expensive to a normal Vietnamese family. Public school had a much cheaper education fee with a higher student teacher ratio, and the schools are often not wealthy.
The school where we study is different to a Vietnamese school; we’re an International American School so basically the teachers and students are from different countries all over the world. Believe it or not, we study similar things as you do like world history and American history in Social studies class and the textbook we’re using are all imported from the States. The student teacher ratio is about twenty in our school, so we don’t have any class that has fifty-six students; also we have to go to school Monday to Friday from 7:55a.m. To 3:00p.m. There are after school activities that you can choose. We have basketball, volleyball, soccer, dodge ball, and swim team from elementary school to high school.,
Our school name is Saigon South International School which is SSIS. During the Vietnam War the south of Vietnam is called Saigon which is now Ho Chi Minh City. The South of Saigon which is Saigon South. That’s where the name of our school has come from. SSIS is a very expensive public school compared to the schools in the States. We have preschool for three years old kids, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school and all the way to high school 12th grade. By: ssisdolly
