User blog:Rhiabloom12/Lost in Translation

I am trying to compile a time line including thie comics and theatrical shows. As a lot of the show is centered around Alfea I am doing some research into the the Italian school system and am going to share some of the relevent findings.

From the way Mitzy treats Bloom it can be infered that Bloom's family is not the richest. A little further reseach shows that firefighters in Italy do not make too much (the source I found said about $ 1,563 U.S. dollars a month). Not knowing how sucessful Vanessa's flower shop is, they might have been happy at Stella's offer for Bloom to go to a nicer school than they could afford.
 * Required education ends at age 16 at this point tuition is charged


 * Alfea would be a Second Grade Secondary School


 * Bloom would have already gone 2 years to a Second Grade Secondary School but specialized courses begin the third year