School Systems
Okay, so my school is evil and the system is messed up.
Other people's schools' systems confuse the hell out of me. So I'm gonna blog about my effed up school district.
First, it is recommended that you go to preschool.
In my district, we have three elementary schools. What school you go to is separated by where you live. I went to all three because I moved a lot. In elementary school there's kindergarten, which is usually for five or six year olds. It's like advanced preschool and it's only half a day. Then there's first grade, where you learned stuff like 2+2. Then there's second grade, where spelling tests start. Third grade you start division, multiplication, and "timed tests," which are tests that you take with 100 math problems on them and you try to do as many as possible in 1 or 2 minutes. Then there's fourth grade, where you start to do book reports and science projects and stuff. Then, finally, there's fifth grade, where you tie it all together and get ready for middle school.
In middle school you start with sixth grade, which is the year that you branch off from your elementary ways and start to get the feel of middle school. It is common in my district to have given/recieved a hand job at the very least. I, of course, along with 99.9% of my friends, are the exception. Seventh grade is where you learn about the middle ages and come to school dressed like a medieval person, which is called Medieval Faire Day. You also get to have this kickass feast. And there's Pi day. March 14th. [pi=3.14] Finally, 8th grade, where I am currently. This is the year where you tie it all together yet again and it's super hard, especially the math and science portions. But you get to stalk the halls and be the monarch of the school. I like to terrorize the teachers, personally. Me and my friends went to Mr. S's room (my 6th grade math teacher) and he called me a closet Jonas Brother fan. So I said, "No way! There is no way in hell that I am a JoHo fan! I mean, do you know what they [i]do[i] to each other?" Needless to say my friends and I were banned from his classroom for quite a while, but the 6th graders laughed their asses off.
Then there's high school. Ninth grade is where you get acquainted with the school, then tenth and eleventh are the middle years and then there's twelfth, and then you graduate. I haven't been in high school yet, so I don't know much about it. I just know that it's co-ed, like, one class will be full of 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th graders all at once. Co-ed.
So that's a summary of my school district.
Oh, and the grading system is weird too, but I don't understand it so I'm not gonna post it.
Other people's schools' systems confuse the hell out of me. So I'm gonna blog about my effed up school district.
First, it is recommended that you go to preschool.
In my district, we have three elementary schools. What school you go to is separated by where you live. I went to all three because I moved a lot. In elementary school there's kindergarten, which is usually for five or six year olds. It's like advanced preschool and it's only half a day. Then there's first grade, where you learned stuff like 2+2. Then there's second grade, where spelling tests start. Third grade you start division, multiplication, and "timed tests," which are tests that you take with 100 math problems on them and you try to do as many as possible in 1 or 2 minutes. Then there's fourth grade, where you start to do book reports and science projects and stuff. Then, finally, there's fifth grade, where you tie it all together and get ready for middle school.
In middle school you start with sixth grade, which is the year that you branch off from your elementary ways and start to get the feel of middle school. It is common in my district to have given/recieved a hand job at the very least. I, of course, along with 99.9% of my friends, are the exception. Seventh grade is where you learn about the middle ages and come to school dressed like a medieval person, which is called Medieval Faire Day. You also get to have this kickass feast. And there's Pi day. March 14th. [pi=3.14] Finally, 8th grade, where I am currently. This is the year where you tie it all together yet again and it's super hard, especially the math and science portions. But you get to stalk the halls and be the monarch of the school. I like to terrorize the teachers, personally. Me and my friends went to Mr. S's room (my 6th grade math teacher) and he called me a closet Jonas Brother fan. So I said, "No way! There is no way in hell that I am a JoHo fan! I mean, do you know what they [i]do[i] to each other?" Needless to say my friends and I were banned from his classroom for quite a while, but the 6th graders laughed their asses off.
Then there's high school. Ninth grade is where you get acquainted with the school, then tenth and eleventh are the middle years and then there's twelfth, and then you graduate. I haven't been in high school yet, so I don't know much about it. I just know that it's co-ed, like, one class will be full of 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th graders all at once. Co-ed.
So that's a summary of my school district.
Oh, and the grading system is weird too, but I don't understand it so I'm not gonna post it.
dude i learned addition subraction and spelling in kindergarden, where i also had spelling tests and had science projects and leraned times tables in 2nd grade O_O
Kevin Devine, January 19th, 2009 at 06:38:40pm
In England we have:
4-11yrs old - Primary school (sometimes split into infant and junior school, which means you change at age 6, but mostly it's the same building)
11-15 yrs old - Secondary school.
Then you can leave education forever if you want, but if you don't there's:
15-17 yrs old - Either your school's sixth form or a seperate college (or, for that matter, another school's sixth form).
And then it's uni.
I think, socially, having a system whereby you have one block of secondary education with the same people is the way to go. I mean, the first couple of years, if you, as I am, are a person who is of that unexplainable odour that attracts bullies like flies to rotting meat, can be a little hellish, but seeing as how you're in the same place for five years, in my experience people just get bored and leave you alone by the time you're all sort of thirteen or fourteen.
Also, we almost invariably have a uniform, so there's not so much jock/prep/emo immediate division.
Maybe my views are affected by the fact that I go to a Grammar school - which over here means you need to take an exam to get in, so it's supposed to be full of more intelligent people. I'm in year 11, which is 15-16, and nowadays everybody kind of knows who everybody else is and (apart from maybe two or three people) treats everyone else with respect or at least maturity, even if they were throwing that peron in a wheelie-bin every lunchtime four years ago.
Boo Radley, January 17th, 2009 at 01:28:58pm
....I never went to preschool and we started getting judged in 3rd grade. :file:
This new girl came to school and I wanted to be her friend but all the 'popular' rich kids were like "Oh no you can't hang out with her, if you like soccer she doesn't do anything she's fat and lazy and look! She's got an eye patch on!"
Turns out that girl is now the popular "Omfg, what is that? Why did you do that with your hair? Gross, did you find those pants in a trash can" type of girl :file:
captain america, January 15th, 2009 at 07:10:04pm
you missed a big part of 9th grade
9th grade is where your ego from being an 8th grader gets shot down. You get picked on, pushed around and completely degraded. you have no rights whatsoever and teachers will hardly do anything to help.
good luck though
:D
Rage, January 15th, 2009 at 01:24:08pm
O_______O completely different to mine.
3-4 yrs old - preschool (I didn't go though)
5-6 years old- kindergarten in primary school FULL DAY and spelling tests x]
7- year 1 which is a little harder.
8 - year 2 harder again science stuff and that.
9 - year 3 which for me was countries and stuff and textbooks.
10 - year 4 which is basically the same as year 3 but harder.
11 - year 5 (for me it was different and year 7-8 level stuff cause of a diffeernt school smart class program)
12 - year 6 last year of primary school, last year was year six for me.
13 - year 7 (I start tuesday) thats high school.
14 - year 8 high school.
15- year 9 electives and sh*t.
16 - year 10 you can drop out and guys do trades and that.
17 - year 11
18- year 12.
the rest is UNI.
icegirl., January 14th, 2009 at 10:50:06pm