Happy Birthday not so little Benno.
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Sue - Feb 19, 2013 12:22:46 pm PST #9714 of 9843
hip deep in pie
Fiona - Feb 19, 2013 8:02:32 pm PST #9715 of 9843
Thanks everyone! My son goes up to eleven. It's mind-boggling.
Beverly - Feb 19, 2013 10:06:46 pm PST #9716 of 9843
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Eleven! That's not possible. It's a day late where you guys are, but Happy Birthday wishes, Benno, my birthday twin!
Fiona - Feb 19, 2013 10:59:11 pm PST #9717 of 9843
Belated happies to you too, Beverly!
§ ita § - Apr 18, 2013 4:00:22 pm PDT #9718 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Can someone tell me the British commonality of the use of "college" to mean a school that's just sixth form? I managed to get all the way from second form through acceptance into Balliol College without having heard of that usage.
billytea - Apr 18, 2013 4:34:05 pm PDT #9719 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I can't comment on Britain, but it's the norm in Canberra. My school was St Edmunds College, because it went from year 4 to year 12. Schools that stopped at year 10 were just Charnwood High or whatever. My siblings all went to Narrabundah College down the road, which was just years 11 and 12.
flea - Apr 18, 2013 4:45:15 pm PDT #9720 of 9843
information libertarian
Also not British, but I think they talked about a "Sixth Form College" on one of the XX-Up Documentaries I watched recently - maybe 42-up? When some of the people who married young had teenagers. (42 up would have been filmed about 1996.) Some of the kids left school at 16, but the daughter one of the East End women was going to a Sixth Form College and had hopes of a University education. So my impression was a lot of schools stopped at 16 but if you wanted to go on to University you did a separate school for a year or two.
§ ita § - Apr 18, 2013 4:48:52 pm PDT #9721 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm familiar with it in a Canadian fashion, but I'm wondering how I managed to get through A-levels without realising there was a whole 'nother A-level granting institution outside of high school.
§ ita § - Apr 18, 2013 4:53:28 pm PDT #9722 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, we had girls who left after O levels because they were not going to university, but even the girls who left SHHS to do A levels somewhere else joined a school that had forms through fifth.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Apr 27, 2013 10:12:44 pm PDT #9723 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Sixth form colleges are pretty common in the UK now, but I'm under the impression they're a growing thing - in a world where teenagers are under pressure to stay in education or training for as long as possible, it can be a compromise for people who want to leave school, or for people who want A-levels outside the range of what schools can offer.