Most public schools I'm familiar with are 6 years of grade school, 3 years of Middle/Jr. High school and 3 years of senior High School.
I DID go to a 4-year high school but it was an all-girl Catholic school.
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quester - May 22, 2012 4:23:34 pm PDT #5670 of 8624
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Sophia Brooks - May 22, 2012 4:24:09 pm PDT #5671 of 8624
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Obviously I m with Jesse. High School is 9-12, Junior High is 7-8.
Sophia Brooks - May 22, 2012 4:24:46 pm PDT #5672 of 8624
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Although we had a "middle school" 5-8.
Jesse - May 22, 2012 4:27:16 pm PDT #5673 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
We just had K-8, 9-12.
askye - May 22, 2012 4:29:38 pm PDT #5674 of 8624
Thrive to spite them
Where I grew up all the public schools and most of the private schools were K-5th Elementary, 6-8 - Middle school, 9-12 High school
Amy - May 22, 2012 4:33:41 pm PDT #5675 of 8624
Because books.
That's like the district my kids go to now, askye.
And actually, where we used to live it was K-5, 6-8 middle school, then 9 and 10 were "junior high" (and in a separate building, although the athletic fields were shared), and 11 and 12 high school. Weird.
askye - May 22, 2012 4:39:19 pm PDT #5676 of 8624
Thrive to spite them
It's always weird how things are different.
Again, growing up in North Florida, we always started school before Labor Day and were out before June. And we got a break for the holidays and spring break, that's it.
But around here in VT (at least several of the schools I know about) school starts either the week before or after Labor Day and gets out last week in May. The schools have winter break, Feb break, and spring break.
§ ita § - May 22, 2012 4:43:42 pm PDT #5677 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The US I was informed about had like Junior and middle and all sort of shit. Too many schools.
Gris - May 22, 2012 4:44:53 pm PDT #5678 of 8624
Hey. New board.
If it's not 9-12, you don't get the full run of freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, which I think is pretty standard across most of the US. Certainly every high school I know of, including the one I attended in MS and the ones I've taught in in NY and TN are 9-12. I am surprised and intrigued to hear that it's not universal. Personally, I love the idea of 7-9 and 10-12, as I really think ninth graders are more similar to eighth graders than tenth graders, generally. Especially the boys. But Artie and Tina must have been (old-looking) ninth graders.
Jesse - May 22, 2012 4:45:04 pm PDT #5679 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But around here in VT (at least several of the schools I know about) school starts either the week before or after Labor Day and gets out last week in May. The schools have winter break, Feb break, and spring break.
It's like that in MA, except we didn't end until the end of June.
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