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AIDANSNIPER t1_je68rpl wrote

I don't know what a "middle school" is and at this point, I'm to feared to ask.

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Vqlcano t1_je6d1ak wrote

In the United States and Canada at least, Middle School is either grades 6-8 or 7-8, depending on the state/province.

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AIDANSNIPER t1_je6xkpn wrote

Next dumb question. In my country, a grade is what you get at the end of the year, telling you how well you done. What the fuck is an American grade?

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Hades40000 t1_je6yzkv wrote

Years of school after kindergarten, so like grade 1 would be your first year after kindergarten, grade 2 is 2 years, etc.

Where I am in Canada, we don't have middle schools, so our elementary schools are from kindergarten to grade 8, and high school is 9-12.

We stop counting grades after high school, so once you go to post-secondary it's just first-year, second-year, etc.

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AIDANSNIPER t1_je91792 wrote

Yeah we're kinda similar in Scotland. Except it's nursery, then primary school for 7 years and then highschool for 4/6 as you can leave after 4 years whenever you want.

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wombey12 t1_je7fa80 wrote

We've got middle schools here in the UK too though. There's lots in Dorset; the one I went to has been around since the early 70s.

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