Talk:Education in Sweden

American–English school system terminology?

As shown in the table, Swedish school has a primary education (grundskola, 1–9) and secondary education (gymnasieskola 10–12), before getting to bachelor, master and that. But why does the table say "primary and lower secondary education" and "upper secondary education"? This would be equivalent to the American school system of elementary (1–5), middle (6–8) and high (9–12) as well as the English primary (1–6), lower (7–9) and upper (10–11). But the Swedish system does not use three schools, so why is the primary school called by two names? Shouldn't this article be written based on the Swedish system and use terms based on this system, and not based on foreign systems? To me, it would be like calling the Swedish emergency number the "911 number"; while it would match what the American term is, it does not reflect the reality of Sweden. Older versions of this article only called it "primary school" and "secondary school", so I don't see the need for this to be changed, since these terms perfectly reflects how it actually is.

Liggliluff (talk) 22:18, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

I have read these "lower secondary" and "upper secondary" in other sources, and I think that I have read it for decades. It's also so, that most municipalities in Sweden organise their schools in a way where the step from 6th grade to 7th is equally important (and for the pupil in many ways bigger) than the step from 9th grade to the gymnasium. Thus "secondary school" seems to be a legitimate expression for both schools. Fomalhaut76 (talk) 15:14, 16 September 2024 (UTC)