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Dec 11, 2006 23:58

What do you call the stage before high school in America? Elementary school?

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crazyjoyfulgirl December 12 2006, 00:04:06 UTC
Junior High is 6-8 in some schools. Sometimes 7-8. But it varies from Junior High to Middle School. Where I live we have both.

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poisontaster December 12 2006, 00:04:23 UTC
Yes. Elementary school is usually first through 6th grades. Some schools separate 7 & 8 into "secondary school" and some don't.

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poisontaster December 12 2006, 00:05:02 UTC
Elementary school might also be called grade school.

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felisblanco December 12 2006, 00:14:27 UTC
So if Dean's on his first year in high school, Sam would be...? *is stoopid*

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poisontaster December 12 2006, 00:16:06 UTC
Probably 5th grade.

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azure_k_mello December 12 2006, 00:15:31 UTC
PK3 (pre-kindergarten for three year olds), PK (four year olds), And K are all considered pre-school

elementary or grade school is 1-4 and 5-8 is middle school,
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5-6 is middle school and 7-8 is "Junior High"

9-12 is high school.

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felisblanco December 12 2006, 00:18:49 UTC
And high school is usually seperate from the others, right? While the other years, past kg, would probably be in the same school, just vthe stages have different names? Or do I have that wrong?

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azure_k_mello December 12 2006, 00:23:01 UTC
it depends on the school district.

It's Sam and Dean so they're in the public system (state school which doesn't have anything before kindergarten) so in my expreance here's the break down:

kindergarten and first are on one campus,
2-8 is on another
ans 9-12 is its own.

The highschool will have a larger catchment group and therefore is liable to be miles from home while the lower grades will be close to wherever you're living.

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felisblanco December 12 2006, 00:27:56 UTC
Ok, that sounds good. I was hoping to find that it would be the first time, since Sam was in kg, that they're not in the same school.

Your school system is way confusing, yo! lol

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kiki_miserychic December 12 2006, 00:37:47 UTC
In my area of the US, elementary is K-4th, middle school is 5th-8th, high school is 9th-12th. The middle and high used to be the connecting buildings and the 2 elementary schools were seperate from middle, high, and each other. Then new high school was built and the two elementary school melded and moved into the old middle school building and the middle school moved into the old high school. It really depends on the area, but you can rationalize anything you choose.

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thatotherperv December 12 2006, 01:03:41 UTC
lol, you poor thing for asking this. you didn't realize the can of worms you were opening. to my understanding, it's regional. I grew up in the south (in texas) and our school is generally structured:
K-5 = elementary or grade school, with playgrounds and one teacher all day
6-8 = middle school, where you get a locker and 6-7 class periods and ginormous 14yo's that threaten to beat the crap out of you (at least, that's the way it feels in 6th grade. oh, the terror)
9-12 = high school, full of angst and ennui. lol.

in the north, they fall more into the four-level system some seem to have described above. I honestly didn't know such systems existed until I went overseas (ironically) and met kids from other parts of the country that said they'd gone to schools were 5-7 were grouped together and then 8-9, and I was like, bzuh? that's crazy talk! lol. so really, it's a regional question. I'm not familiar enough with supernatural to know where they grew up. lo, the sadness that is no CW in my town :(

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felisblanco December 12 2006, 01:10:03 UTC
I seem to remember I asked this once before and never got it then either. lol

Well, the thing is that they grew up everywhere, or so it seems. Never stopping in one place long enough to wake suspicion or get social services called on them. When you live off credit card scams and leave two small children to fend for themselves days on end you really don't want to stay long enough for anyone to notice. Of course we really don't know that much, just seen glimpses and heard hints of what their life was like but I'd say it's safe to say they attended school erratically and cross country.

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thatotherperv December 12 2006, 01:31:41 UTC
it's weird to me that they would have ever been registered in school, although I'm sure canon probably says they do. it's just that if they were that nomadic (and weren't they living in hotels?) I would think it would be hard to register for school from a permanent address, since that's generally required so that you're paying school tax in that district.

ok sorry that has nothing to do with what you're doing. I was just thinking. too much. haha.

anyway, if they grew up everywhere, I'd say you can't go wrong with what system you pick :)

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