Admissions to the academy are rolling; the youngest admission age is 12, but students are taken up through 18. Academy curriculum covers six years, though the last year is heavily weighted toward real-world projects that are more like internships than classes.
My hc about school in Three is that it's competency-based rather than age-based. Kids start mandatory school at four, and proceed based on their competency (as demonstrated in test results and teacher evals) subject by subject. For example, a ten-year-old could test at level four math, level six science and level five writing; instead of attending a fourth grade class based on her age, she'd go to the separate math, science, and writing classes that match her current ability (where there would be kids of a variety of ages, though most clustering around a 'typical' age for the class).
I also think that there's a heavy emphasis on math and science in the curriculum (lots of options for advanced math and a range of science courses at the 9-12 levels) , and a relative paucity of history, literature and other humanities (which, given the history is probably propaganda and the type of prose/poetry that can be read is tightly restricted, is probably just as well). The exception is music; kids routinely get exposed to music education (because of the scientific evidence of the usefulness of music in brain development). Fun fact: Beetee took keyboard lessons from a young age, and continued the classes through the academy (though those last few years it was mostly because a particularly intriguing woman on his team also took them ;) ).
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Date: 2015-02-18 07:28 pm (UTC)Admissions to the academy are rolling; the youngest admission age is 12, but students are taken up through 18. Academy curriculum covers six years, though the last year is heavily weighted toward real-world projects that are more like internships than classes.
My hc about school in Three is that it's competency-based rather than age-based. Kids start mandatory school at four, and proceed based on their competency (as demonstrated in test results and teacher evals) subject by subject. For example, a ten-year-old could test at level four math, level six science and level five writing; instead of attending a fourth grade class based on her age, she'd go to the separate math, science, and writing classes that match her current ability (where there would be kids of a variety of ages, though most clustering around a 'typical' age for the class).
I also think that there's a heavy emphasis on math and science in the curriculum (lots of options for advanced math and a range of science courses at the 9-12 levels) , and a relative paucity of history, literature and other humanities (which, given the history is probably propaganda and the type of prose/poetry that can be read is tightly restricted, is probably just as well). The exception is music; kids routinely get exposed to music education (because of the scientific evidence of the usefulness of music in brain development). Fun fact: Beetee took keyboard lessons from a young age, and continued the classes through the academy (though those last few years it was mostly because a particularly intriguing woman on his team also took them ;) ).