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Australian, American, or Canadian curriculum?

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 25 August 2013 - 22:32

Hello, I am an american teenager, currently living in Dubai, who will be moving to Abu Dhabi next year.
I've only been living in Dubai for about months. My whole life I have done American curriculum, this year I did half of my freshman year in american curriculum (9th grade) and the other half in British Curriculum (year 10). The British curriculum was a COMPLETE disaster, so we have decided to steer CLEAR away from it.
Anyways, this year I will be doing my sophomore year with K12 online schooling. We have decided to do this because all other american schools are full and k12 is america curriculum.
Next year (11th grade) we will be moving to Abu Dhabi, and we have found some incredible Australian, Canadian, and American schools. I was wondering if any of you could give me some insight as far as the curriculum of the Australian and Canadian schools, and what your experience with them is. Which one would you recommend? I am very familiar with American curriculum obviously haha. My understanding is that Canadian and Australian are very widely excepted American colleges. Do you know the pros and cons or each? how would you compare them? and what is a basic over view of the courses? Thank you in advance!!

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EW MASTER
Latest post on 26 August 2013 - 20:30
all the aussies that i know are in the brit curriculum
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 26 August 2013 - 08:43
Stick with the American curriculum. Both Canadian and Australian are closer to the British system. I will move my children from the British system to the American system for high school because it allows the most flexibility.
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EW MASTER
Latest post on 26 August 2013 - 08:09
look carefully at the aussie sch in auh they arent necessarily the same as you might think.
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 25 August 2013 - 22:52
My son studied under the Australian curriculum back home. I am assuming they follow the same one here. The one thing he liked was that there was no need to study maths which he was absolutely hopeless at so he could concentrate on humanities subjects and steer clear of the sciences. Not everyone will see this as a good thing I know but I doubt he would have made it to uni if he hadn't done it this way. Good luck whatever you decide.