Klarinet Archive - Posting 000604.txt from 2000/04

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] grades
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 08:52:48 -0400

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From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subject: [kl] grades

> 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

9th grade = freshman
10th grade = sophomore
11th grade = junior
10th grade = senior

High schools come in either a 4 year version (9th through 12th grade) or a 3
year version (10th through 12th grade).

Some places have a junior high school while others have a middle school.
The exact grades that are included vary substantially. If 9th grade is
included in the junior high rather than the high school, then the term
freshman is rarely used. A very few schools do not have a junior high or
middle school. A very few schools do not have this separate category but
simply split into primary (1 - 8 and sometimes called elementary) and
secondary (9 - 12 and usually called high school).

College designations for the four year degree also use the terms freshman,
sophomore, junior, and senior. The high school senior graduates and then
becomes a college freshman.

Hope this helps.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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