On 2016-10-23 8:14 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Saturday, October 22, 2016 at 5:37:46 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2016-10-22 3:26 PM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>
>>>> Naw, it should be a requirement for leaving elementary school
>>>> and going into middle school (formerly known as junior high).
>>>>
>>>
>>> middle school and junior high are two different things.
>>
>>
>> I had to look it up because we don't have "middle school" around here.
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> Lower secondary school?
>
> <http://www.ncee.org/programs-affiliates/center-on-international-education-benchmarking/top-performing-countries/canada-overview/canada-instructional-systems/>
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> Or do you just have primary school and secondary school?

Interesting site. I guess if it was on the internet it has to be true,
but that is not the way it is here. That chart had me totally confused.
Unlike their showing elementary school being ages 6-12 it is normally
6-13. In some school boards there are junior and senior elementary, but
that tends to be in cases where smaller schools no longer have the
student base for the full K-8 so they split them up to avoid split
grades. Their chart shows high school being for students 12-18, but it
starts at Gr.9 , usually age 14. We used to have 5 grades in high
school but about 20 years ago they dropped it to four years.

Their chart also shows a Bachelor Degree taking 1-4 years. When I went
to university our school required 15 full courses for a BA and to major
in a field there were required courses for each year of the program,
and some of those would have prerequisites from earlier levels. It beats
me how one could manage to get enough suitable credits for a degree in
one year. The chart also failed to note that there are BA degrees and
BA with Honours, the latter involving a BA and then an extra year and
includes a thesis.


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> Cindy Hamilton
>
>> 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.
>