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Curriculum in elementary schools

The Romanian curriculum is known as highly academic but rigid. There are up to 15 compulsory subjects (usually 8-13) and up to 5 optional subjects (usually 1 or 2). However, unlike in the United Kingdom or France, these optional subjects are chosen by the school and imposed on the student � they are known as School Decided Curriculum (Curriculum la Decizia Şcolii � CDŞ) and are usually extensions to the compulsory subjects.

For the duration of the elementary school, each student must take:

• 8 years of mathematics, Romanian, music, art and physical education
• up to 8 years of religion (any belief accepted, if a teacher cannot be provided in school, a certificate from any representative of the faith is accepted, if atheist or agnostic, another subject must be taken)
• 6 years of geography and history,
• 7 or 8 years in the first foreign language (usually English, French, or German)
• 3�4 years in the second foreign language (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian or Portuguese)
• 3 years of Civic education, physics and biology
• 2 years of Chemistry,
• 2 years of IT although in many places this subject can be optionally studied all the 8 years of elementary schools).