Klarinet Archive - Posting 000540.txt from 2000/04

From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] grades
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 06:05:39 -0400

In their mailings US-American people talk about grades in school. When I
worked in the USA in 1968 I was a short time teaching mathematics in the
highschool my girl friend attended ("Hapeville hihg"). In this school I
taught freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors, but never heard anyone
talk about "twelfth grade" or the likes of it. Can someone explain it to me?

In October that year I joined an excursion into the Alleghannies to watch
the turning of the leaves. We had lunch in a junior college, where the main
subjects were house keeping and gardening. In this country you learn that at
age twelve in some "lower" types of secondary school, not in college, so
ever since, I have been intrigued by details of the American educational
system. I am well aware it is off topic, but if someone is willing to
explain it to me, I will be thankful. Of course it can best be done by
private mail

Rien

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