LOL.. Now I wonder which is worse? Back in the Philippines,we had to wear uniforms (skirts/pants/sailor type styles)

luckily for me, I went to private school and it was not enforced..

but i think the uniform system is used because its predominantly a Catholic country. Administrative officers in govt establishments had to wear uniforms as well..

But there was one I praticularly disliked with the education system in Phils.. Attendance monitoring.. like

, they had to take attendance for every lesson and 3-5 consecutive absences meant Dropped from the subject; so u had to re-enroll the next semester for that course.

But I totally agree, cos when I was in Nigeria, the system of education was so tough..Lord have mercy and it was the complete opposite in the Philippines, so i lagged and played so much during my college days..
Wait a minute I thought you told me you had no time to have fun...

Gal, I'd luv to wear uniforms here!

As for attendance it's about the same here. If we're absent 3-5 times consecutively we have to drop the module. Except I'm absent a lot more than 3-5 times...I guess they're lenient (i.e. they don't care) with foreign students.
Surprised to hear that in the Philippines you didn't really have to wear uniforms in private school, whereas the public school students had to...REALLY STRANGE.

When I was in the Philippines it was very much the opposite where private school students had to wear the whole gear (incl. ID pinned up on your blouse, "black shoes white socks", bag, etc.)...public school students had a lot of freedom; they were even allowed to wear slippers to go to school (if I went to school with slippers I would have been sent home).
Education system is really strict in Seychelles. From Secondary/high school onwards, if you are absent 3 times without valid reason/parents note/sick leave you'll be expelled from school.

No exception to foreign students.
