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!!! skgsdjds u dont have to apologize for not knowing how the italian school system works because sdgjsdkd it’s super stupid and i also really love bloom being a year younger bc it’s just. so cute and fitting

basically school in italy is:

elementary school (5 years, 6 to 10 years old) middle school (3 years, 11 to 13 years old) high school (5 years, 14 to 18-19 years old) university (thats not different from the rest of the world)

it’s only mandatory until the third year of high school (16 years old ish) but unless you do the whole five years you would not have a high school diploma. since italy was (.......is, stil, sometimes) a poor country for many many years, now that there is enough money that school is affordable to most, a majority of parents do not approve of their children dropping out of school before finishing their fifth year. so the only way for someone to finish high school early would b like,.... oh uh one of my classmates in my first year of elementary school skipped to the second year bc she was older than us by a few months as she was born in like late december or early january idk and she already knew a lot of the stuff u learn in ur first year so she got to skip. (theres a rumor she regrets it but that mightve just started from the aforementioned parents disapproving of children who do not get The Most School). and since bloom’s canon birthday is in december that could happen actually. i didnt think of that when i saw the post bc skipping a year is a very Exceptional thing though.

i keep rambling here so im gonna put a cut hope it works lmfao. feel free to not,.,.,,., read it/respond to it cause i just explain a lot of italian stuff slkdgjdsk

 oh also something u might be interested in !!!!!! in ur third year of middle school u choose which high school to go to. that is because every high school has a different Specialization ! for example i go to art high school (liceo artistico! and i study set design, specifically. each art school then has its own specializations). theres liceo, istituto and professionale. licei have a greater focus on givign students knowledge about A Little Bit Of Everything, so theres all the theoretical subjects like art, art history, maths, chemistry etc on top of the specialization, which means that i, for example, even though i go to art school, can then go study to be a doctor in university because i have the basics in Everything. however this also means that i will most likely Need to get a university degree as well to start working. licei are the most ‘popular’ choice. istituti tecnici focus on giving students an Economic or Scientific education. some istituti have students prepared to enter the workforce right after finishing high school, but with most u at least need a university degree, though not necessarily a master’s like licei sometimes do. professionali prepare students for work Right As they finish high school, though this means that if they decide to pursue something else they’ll have a harder time as this means they’ll need to catch up on the basics. 

off the top of my head theres: classical (liceo classico) and scientific (liceo scientifico) (the most attended. classical teaches like latin and greek and in general has a great focus on all theoretical subjects, while scientific is... like.... the most stem-like liceo i guess? lmao), language school lmao (liceo linguistico, in which u study english + two extra foreign languages. usually the choices are like french german spanish, but theres one near me that teaches chinese, however each language school has its own languages just like each art school has its own... arts), human sciences (scienze umane. it’s psychology, sociology, etc), musical (liceo musicale. it’s music LMAO. there’s FEW of these) i dont know many istituti but i know theres alberghiero, where u learn to like cook and manage businesses such as hotels or restaurants, and one where u learn how to FAAAARM HELL YEAH ITALIAN MOMENT sdlòkgsdgsdkjsgd. i know nothing about professionali because the idea of locking myself into one career path terrified me as a 13 year old LKSDGJKSD

i was abt to explain the CULTURAL INTRICACIES of choosing a high school but uh, i’ll refrain. if u want it u can ask but sldkgs this is already much too long LMAO.

n thank u to replyign to my ask it made me really happy :D

ur art is my ART GOALS omg omg omg it's SUPER GOOD

GAH THANK YOU SO MUCH THATS SO SWEET😭😭😭 also I just checked your tags on the age post and I am so sorry I have no idea how your school system works and forgot to check it out because I became so attached to the idea of bloom being a year younger than everyone ajsjfjggk

Thank you again so much for the kind words!