TET

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This article is about the Finnish work practice program. For the Vietnamese festival, see Tết. For the medical technology, see transcutaneous energy transmission.

TET/PRAO (Työelämään tutustuminen in Finnish language, Praktisk arbetslivsorientering in Swedish, lit. visit to the working life) is a part of the Finnish primary schooling system where students practice working at a real working place.

The duration of the practice is two weeks, and it takes place in the 8th or 9th grade, depending on the school. Each student can choose his/her working place independently, and has to sign a contract with both his/her school and the working place. Often, students end up working in one of their relatives' or friends' working places.

The students working in the program are normally entitled to one free meal per day, but they receive no salary or allowance. The costs for the working place are paid by the Finnish state.

The purpose of the program is to introduce students to the working environments of today's world. In Vantaa, Finland TET students normally have a 6 hour work day, with only one required lunch break, duration 30 minutes. Rules require that no heavy lifting (over 15 kg) be normal labour in the work practice, and there are other specifications. (Vantaa).

In Sweden, the system can only be found in some rare places. Before, it was the school that fixed the place to the students to work on but now the student need to do it himself. And it isn't mandatory to do it, and as said, a very little percentage is allowed to make "PRAO".

TET

'TET also means Together Everyone Together but not for everybody. It is a group originally founded by 6 high school students. Later on one more was added. Together they made a pact to be friends forever wherein after years they would built a house or a mansion that would cover them and their families. That would be for 5 or more years after this current year.

The members of TET are currently having their summer vacation. This year, they are going to start their college years. Well, All that is to say to them is Good Luck! Ganbatte!!!'