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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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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,
or
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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azure_k_mello December 12 2006, 00:35:57 UTC
Hey! Not *MY* system, I only came for seventh grade on and I was in a private school with PK3-12 all on one campus. It was great, there was only 600 hundred kids in the school. There were 35 kids in my gradutating class. It was great.

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azure_k_mello December 12 2006, 00:29:42 UTC
sorry, nix that, it's usually:

kindergarten and first are on one campus,
2-4 is another
5-8 is on another
and 9-12 is its own.

Example you live in Durrry: your kids would go to Durry, Soilton, Central, and then Camber High. Durry would have kids from your town, Soiton would have kids from the three closest towns, Central would cover about six towns, and Camber would have the whole county

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gileswench December 12 2006, 00:24:34 UTC
Elemetary and Grade School are in the same building. Middle school is separate. High school is separate again.

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felisblanco December 12 2006, 00:34:01 UTC
Might that not depend on the size of the school though? Seeing as they probably stayed more in smaller places. Wouldn't you just throw all the kids in one school except high school because that's when they start drinking and doing drugs and might screw up the younger ones? *hopeful*

You are all confusing me! *cries*

Just tell me Sam and Dean have been in the same school since Sam got out of kg and until Dean started high school and I'll be happy, okay? Lying is totally acceptable. *headdesk* Ok, maybe not. Just pet me instead. *wibble*

*feels very stoopid*

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azure_k_mello December 12 2006, 00:39:26 UTC
well, if it's a small enough county it might. I mean Nantucket Island only has two campus: first and high.

So it's a possibility.

Buuut... it's really rare. Especially in Bumfuck Nowhereville. Because, usually, then they just make you travel farther to get to school.

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felisblanco December 12 2006, 00:48:51 UTC
Damn.

We have all the grades from 1st to 10th (6-15 y.o.) together, although 8th-10th are usually in a building furthest away from the youngest ones. Then most kids go to what I guess you would call junior high, ages 16-20 (which would be the school I work in), and then many go on to go to university.

See? A lot less confusing. For me at least. lol

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azure_k_mello December 12 2006, 00:54:28 UTC
I've always just thought: lower, middle, high- deploma- goodbye, of the American system.

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