On Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 4:37:46 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
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> On 2016-10-22 3:26 PM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
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> >> Naw, it should be a requirement for leaving elementary school
> >> and going into middle school (formerly known as junior high).
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> > middle school and junior high are two different things.
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> I had to look it up because we don't have "middle school" around here.
> Wikipedia says it is also known as intermediate school or middle school.
> We don't have either in this area. A nearby and long established
> private school used to have a middle school designation but has done
> away with it.
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Doesn't make sense to me at all why it's now called 'middle
school.'