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British Stereotypes
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Not Meowth
Cat, are you drilling?
Storm Earth and Fire
Would you like to make a contract?
What about Falkland Islanders?
Blastoise Fortooate
Geographical!
It's simple actually. Grades are what I assume you call 'years'. You go up a grade each year, starting with first grade and ending in twelfth. You spend one school year in each grade.
Elementary school is kindergarten (the year before first grade, for five year olds) through fifth grade. Then you go to middle school (also called Junior High) 6th grade to 8th, and then High School for the rest.
You guys have some sort of primary school stuff, I assume it's like our elementary?
Not Meowth
Cat, are you drilling?
We go to primary school years 1-6 (age 5-11) then move up to secondary school for years 7-11 (age 11-16). Then we get the option of doing year 12 and 13 (Sixth Form) after that. So kinda similar, but without going to an extra school in between for just a couple of years =)
Jolty
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Bigger secondary schools sometimes have lower and upper schools, lower for year 7-9 and upper for 10+
Mine's like that and tbh I am SO GLAD I don't see infinite little CHILDREN running around my sodding school :(
Tailsy
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Don't do that.
Also WHAT you don't call books jotters?? YOU FREAK, CIRRUS
YOU UTTER FREAK
And Scotland Is Different education system-wise but if I try to explain your head will apparently explode.
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>O
I think most people call them exercise books, which is actually a really really lame term. DX
I'm just jealous of all Scottish people because you get SORT OF free university and it's NOT FAAAAIR *whine*
Espeon
Mmhm...
Actually, when I was in primary school we had a book specifically called a jotter. It was just for making random notes and doodling in.
Like when you want to "jot something down".
Zeph
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Whereas if you live where I do you go to First School (Reception -> 4; age 4 -> 9), Middle School (5-> 8; age 9 -> 13), then Upper School (9 -> 11; age 13 -> 16); Upper school contains the optional Sixth Form as well though.
Because we like to confuse.
Vladimir Putin's LJ
your blood flows through my veins
My school has a complete bullshit system that confuses the hell out of everyone we try to explain it to.
Usually you start in the crêche (ages 2-4), because whereas most parents can afford to stay at home and look after their child we're all bourgeois bastards and went to schools for tots. I could read and count to one hundred when I was five thanks to this 'v'
Then it's pretty straightforward: two years of pre-primary, five years of primary and seven years of secondary. Roughly.
And then the secondary's divided into three: first and second years, third and fourth years and fifth, sixth and seventh years. Each group gets their own préau, a sort of study room I guess.
And we don't have any exams till fifth year. Feels good man. (though when we do it's hard as hell mandatory physics and chemistry and and)
But I'm not British :o(
Usually you start in the crêche (ages 2-4), because whereas most parents can afford to stay at home and look after their child we're all bourgeois bastards and went to schools for tots. I could read and count to one hundred when I was five thanks to this 'v'
Then it's pretty straightforward: two years of pre-primary, five years of primary and seven years of secondary. Roughly.
And then the secondary's divided into three: first and second years, third and fourth years and fifth, sixth and seventh years. Each group gets their own préau, a sort of study room I guess.
And we don't have any exams till fifth year. Feels good man. (though when we do it's hard as hell mandatory physics and chemistry and and)
But I'm not British :o(
Tailsy
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Free university tuition. And that's because we get a surprising amount of benefits from being in the UK 8) We steal all your shit.
Harlequin
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Harlequin
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President Michael Wilson
Tildes are the work of the devil
So Poles are the UK's Mexicans?
Vladimir Putin's LJ
your blood flows through my veins
yeah i'm legally retarded obviously
Harlequin
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No, pretty much all of the EU is our Mexico.
clearly. go do something about it >:(
Tailsy
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Nnnnno they don't! They're better than yours, Welsh boy.
