Mario, 16, is a secondary-school student in a small town in the foothills of southern Austria.
The education grants are substantial, about two-thirds of what secondary-school students would receive for full-time work.
Like many secondary-school students, they probably did not take the time and effort to learn to write properly or read the classics.
In the mid-1980s, only about 15 percent of secondary-school students were enrolled in vocational education.
Enrollments have risen at a similar pace, and account for nearly 15 percent of all secondary-school students.
This restriction obviously limited the number of secondary-school students.
Soviet secondary-school students must pass final examinations to get a diploma.
About half the states have some form of statewide control over textbooks used by elementary- and secondary-school students.
A Government survey found that in 1987 as many as 2.5 percent of secondary-school students smoked crack.
In the 1980s, the originality of this school lead to the teaching of a course for secondary-school students.