German_Culture

German Culture Marriage and family Religion Few are of the 35% Germans are protestants mostly Lutehrans about 34% of the people are Roman Catholics. And about 2 % are Muslims. Education Education in Germany is controlled my the individual states. All children must go to school full-time for at least 9 or 10 years, starting at age 6. But the length of time children spend in elementary and other types of schools varies from state to state. In most German states, children attend elementary school for four years. Children may then go to one of several types of schools. A gymnasium is a traditional junior and senior high school. This type of school prepares students for entrance into a university. There are also intermediate schools. They provide students with academic subjects as well as some job training. Other schools are vocational schools. These have fewer academic subjects than the other types of schools but offer much job training. Comprehensive schools combine all three types of jinior snd senior high levels of education. Germany has several party, schools, germany, types, school, children, years, year, states, state, germanys, four, east, democratic, west, training, term, system, subjects, students, several, senior, political, parties, must, least, job, high, go, germans, german, free, elementary, elected, controlled, began, academic, about, voters, vote, vocational, very, varies, university, universities, union, unification, under, type, two