Thank you, Iceflower.
Our Marie does look casually elegant here.
BB has a video of the visit:
VIDEO: Prinsesse Marie tilbage på job | BILLED-BLADET
Where we hear Marie telling a little bit about what went on.
As always her Danish is near flawless. - There was only one very slight grammatical slip, where she put the words together in French rather than Danish. Her pronunciation is perfect with only a very minor accent.
As usual she's using a fairly simple Danish to express herself. Everyday-Danish so to speak, in comparison to Mary's more intellectual Danish, which is particularly evident when she has a message to bring across.
About 60 % of all Danish youth go to what is equivalent to high school in other countries. In addition to that there are a number of other business and technical schools which also teach on an academic level.
The project here is basically for the best students in the high schools. Those who are bored on a day-to-day basis. Here they get together with other students like themselves and face case-studies and challenges.
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- A major problem IMO is that too many go to high school, it lowers the general level. And if you don't leave high school with at least pretty good grades you won't have wasted thee years, but the three years might have been better employed had they gone to a trade school instead.
Because too many of those who go to high school, simply don't have the abilities or are not yet mature enough, again IMO.
Beforehand high school was for those who were sure to go to university afterwards. That is far from the case today.
Basic schooling in Denmark today is 10 years of school, followed by 2-3 years in high school, business school, technical school or 3-4 years in a trade school. Anything less is considered inadequate.
Our daughter is to start in high school now, and our son at an IT academy at the university, so they are following the general pattern.
when it comes to foreign recipients it is true for many. For French citizens there is a lot of criteria to be met.
