[ This is one of those moments when Cisco has to explain something that seems so basic to him that he hardly even knows where to begin. ]
it happens because there are laws about it and stuff.
basically when a kid is like around 5 or 6 years old they start going to school. there are lots of schools all over the place - some are really huge and some are smaller. some get run by private organizations like churches but public schools get paid for and taken care of by the government. it's 5 days a week, from morning until afternoon. you just go in and sit in a classroom and learn stuff. kind of like we've been doing with science, except that it's one teacher and a whole bunch of students. there's things called grades, usually 1 through 12, and what grade you're in depends on how old you are. like, it's a progression. so after you're in first grade with one teacher, you move up to second grade with a different one, etc. and you get given stuff called 'homework' which is studying assignments that students are supposed to work on in the afternoon and evening after classes are over.
(i don't know how much of this stuff is the same as how people do lessons in westeros)
depending on how well you do on the homework and in class you get given grades (i know, same word as above, it's confusing) on a scale from A to F where A is the best and F is the worst. if you don't get a good enough grade you get held back and have to repeat a year, and depending on how well you do it can influence what kinds of jobs you can get later on.
anyway all kids are supposed to go, and your parents can get in trouble if you don't show up, until you're a teenager and then no one really cares at that point. so pretty much everyone learns how to read and write and do math, plus some basic stuff about science and history and sometimes other languages.
[ Well..... hopefully that hadn't come out too confusing. ]
i'm sure all that kind of stuff is important, but it sounds like such a pain to me. that's the kind of thing that would be a paid job in my world. like, rich dudes would just hire people do to that kind of thing.
i am glad you know how to read, though. i should give you some books for fun, sometime.
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it happens because there are laws about it and stuff.
basically when a kid is like around 5 or 6 years old they start going to school. there are lots of schools all over the place - some are really huge and some are smaller. some get run by private organizations like churches but public schools get paid for and taken care of by the government. it's 5 days a week, from morning until afternoon. you just go in and sit in a classroom and learn stuff. kind of like we've been doing with science, except that it's one teacher and a whole bunch of students. there's things called grades, usually 1 through 12, and what grade you're in depends on how old you are. like, it's a progression. so after you're in first grade with one teacher, you move up to second grade with a different one, etc. and you get given stuff called 'homework' which is studying assignments that students are supposed to work on in the afternoon and evening after classes are over.
(i don't know how much of this stuff is the same as how people do lessons in westeros)
depending on how well you do on the homework and in class you get given grades (i know, same word as above, it's confusing) on a scale from A to F where A is the best and F is the worst. if you don't get a good enough grade you get held back and have to repeat a year, and depending on how well you do it can influence what kinds of jobs you can get later on.
anyway all kids are supposed to go, and your parents can get in trouble if you don't show up, until you're a teenager and then no one really cares at that point. so pretty much everyone learns how to read and write and do math, plus some basic stuff about science and history and sometimes other languages.
[ Well..... hopefully that hadn't come out too confusing. ]
i'm sure all that kind of stuff is important, but it sounds like such a pain to me. that's the kind of thing that would be a paid job in my world. like, rich dudes would just hire people do to that kind of thing.
i am glad you know how to read, though. i should give you some books for fun, sometime.