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Caleb
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Mar 17, 2021 10:42AM
I shouldn't be up that late, but hw takes too long.
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ushh don’t remind me i start school soon again
Official school hours are 9-3 (that's shorter because of distance learning). I take advanced chemistry and history classes so those give extra hw. And then I have soccer for two hours in the evening, or games twice a week for 6 hours. So yeah, teachers suck.
How big (population) is your high school?
Holy cow Caleb only 9-3??? I've got an 8:pm english class (new england time)
Caleb wrote: "Official school hours are 9-3 (that's shorter because of distance learning). I take advanced chemistry and history classes so those give extra hw. And then I have soccer for two hours in the evenin..."Yeah I feel that. I've got track every afternoon, and then have to deal with advanced physics/ a religion in popular culture course.
Yeah, sports make lives busy. But I would be even worse without them. Before covid, our school hours were 7:40-2:35.
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i’m in college but i kinda miss high school well at least the sports and what not
If you don't mind me asking, what grade are y'all? I'm a sophomore.
*confused British noises*
Sorry, that's tenth grade. Secondary school. Not sure how schooling goes in Europe.
I’m year 10 in Britishness, in high school which is middle school I think
I’m in 5 year in Scottish secondary school which I think is 10th grade in America
And we don’t have mosquitoes in Scotland but there are midges which are just as annoying
In America we have elementary school starting at age 5. That's 1st through 5th grade. Middle schools are 6-8 grade. High school is 9-12 grade. After that you can do college, university, or trade school for more options. 1-12 is required, after that it's your choice.
There’s a place in the Hebrides that’s very good for whale and dolphin watching but the only problem is the ammount of midges biting you while you’re watching them
I've never heard of a midge before, but it looks pretty much just the same as a mosquito.
I’m Scotland we have nursery (age 3-5) primary school p1-7 for ages 5-12 and secondary school s1-s6 ages 12-18 as soon as your 16 your allowed to leave any time and do further education or something else
Midges are like mosquitoes but much smaller so you dont notice them until you feel the tiny sting of them biting you
We also have pre-school that you can do, but that isn't required. You're also allowed to do some sort of home school. I think we have to go through 11 grade before you're allowed to drop out. But it's a lot easier to get a good job if you go all the way through college.
You don't even feel a mosquito biting you. What's annoying about them is the thing they inject into your blood stream so that you don't feel them sucking your blood, and then it itches for a few days.
i’m from america and we have pre-k (4yr old) (1yr of schooling) kindergartens (5yr old)(1 yr of schooling) elementary (6-10yrs old) (5 yrs of schooling; 1st - 5th grade) middle school (11-14yrs old) (3 yrs of schooling; 6th - 8th grade) high school (15-18yrs old) (4 yrs of schooling; 9th - 12th grade)
and then there’s college or whatever you wanna do after highschool but your not required to go to college unlike the schooling before which you are required too; i.e. pre-k through highschool.
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I just have two years left, then I get to do stuff that might actually be fun in school apart from sports.
I’m doing school from home right now because of lockdown so I can do it in my pjs lol
Same, lol. It's nice to have a comfortable chair with a blanket. And you can just turn off your camera and no harm done.
where I am you're basically required to keep our camera on if possible at all times. It's pretty annoying
I keep it on for most of class, but if I'm tired I don't. Here, they're not legally allowed to make us keep it on.
We use google classroom instead of zoom so there is no cameras for me
Yeah, we use google classroom too. And for classes we use google meets
We use google classroom for everything which to be honest isn’t as efficient to learn on as it is in actual school for me
In my case it's a private school, so they can basically just make us do whatever they want.
Interesting. We have kindergarten after preschool. And yeah, you'd be the equivalent of a junior here. High school here (grades 9-12) go Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior.
Yeah, junior high is an old term for middle school. That's now grades 6-8 (age 11-14).
I've heard of that. Again, I think that used to be the standard, but nowadays the standard is 6-8
What I meant was that schools used to be elementary 1-6 grade, middle school (or junior high) 7-9 grade, and then high school 10-12 grade. Now it's elementary 1-5 grade, middle school (or junior high) 6-8, and high school 9-12. Each school has it's own area. Elementary students would just take another year before going to the middle school building. I think that makes sense.
No, I'm not explaining greatly. In the city I live in we have like 6 elementary school buildings, all spread out, 2 middle school buildings, again on opposite sides of town, and 1 high school. So each series of grades (elementary, middle, or high) has its own building, and some have multiple for each.
It's one of those things that you really just don't think about. So it can be difficult to explain.
We have different buildings near each other, but not really on the same campus.
You're close to as far away as you can get from the U.S. I have no idea how the schooling system works in Africa.
No, you're fine. lol. It's a big difference.
American school systems have always confused me lmao i think its like a year behind us? So for example ive just turned 17 and im in year 12 so would that be the same as like grade 11? (or is it the other way round...)
You would either be in grade 11 or 12 18-17 grade 12
17-16 grade 11
16-15 grade 10
15-14 grade 9 and you get the point
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