[SirSkidmore]

Completely true, if not implied. I just graduated from secondary school in the US. I want to be a programmer, but I never once took a programming class; my school didn't offer them. Most of my peers still have NO idea what they would like to study, even though some of them are paying $10,000-$20,000 to go to college.

At least at my school (a small rural secondary school), there just weren't enough classes to to "specialize" or focus on any one particular field. You just took the core classes every year: a science (sometimes), a math, an English.

[dragonwriter]

> I just graduated from primary school in the US. I want to be a programmer, but I never once took a programming class.

Normally I would say "that's okay, you've got plenty of time to do that in secondary school (middle/high school)". But then you go on to say this:

> Most of my peers still have NO idea what they would like to study, even though some of them are paying $10,000-$20,000 to go to college.

If you just graduated from primary school, why are your peers going to college? That's quite odd. I suspect, in declining order of likelihood, that either "primary school", or "college", or "peers" is an error...

[zanny]

US doesn't see middle / high as "secondary" school. Secondary school is college. Primary school is just the K-12 process because it is continuous with no breaks in between, besides maybe the divide between one year being led around hallways by a teacher and next going room to room on your own.

[dragonwriter]

> US doesn't see middle / high as "secondary" school.

Yes, it does. [1]

> Secondary school is college.

No, secondary school is either equivalent to "high school" or equivalent to "middle and high school". [2] College is "post-secondary school". [3]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_school#United_States

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_school#United_States

[3] e.g., http://www.cpec.ca.gov/SecondPages/CommissionHistory.asp

[SirSkidmore]

yeah, sorry, fixed. It's a Monday, can you tell?