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What grade range or age-of-students range would a grammar school cover in your area? Please include general area, i.e., country and section of country.
Or is the term even used in your area?
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For me, the term sounds old fashioned. If pressed, I'd say that it synonymous with primary school which is from first through sixth grade. Then middle school for seventh and eighth, and secondary for the last four years. I'm from California.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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ditto. the term is no longer used in the Minneapolis public school system.
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In the two states of Australia I've lived in (and I think it's the same nationwide), the term "Grammar School" is only used as part of the title of certain long established exclusive private schools - a leftover of the terminology of previous eras. Examples are Geelong Grammar in Melbourne, Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School, and Launceston Church Grammar near here which is Australia's oldest continually operating school. All of these and other schools with "Grammar" in the title are usually all age, though I think some are just High Schools.
Generally speaking what Americans call Elementary School we call Primary School, which is sometimes divided into Infants (Kindergarten up to Year 2) and Primary (Year 3-6). Kindergarten is called Prep in Tasmania and Victoria.
High School in some states means years 7-12 and in other states, like Tasmania, it means years 7-10 and then we have College which is years 11 & 12. We do not use terms like Freshman, Co-ed and other names familiar to North Americans. They are all just students or schoolchildren.
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... not to mention the famous Kelsey Grammar School ...
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grammar school has gone the way of the victrola...
primary school is where children today go to school
(with excepts like latin grammar school or other schools that have grammar as part of the proper name of the school
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Auckland Grammar School is across the road from my workplace. My niece attended Epsom Girls Grammar. There are quite a few grammar schools in the Auckland area. Our school system starts with kindergarten from 2-3 years old til 5, primary til 11, intermediate til 13, and Secondary or college til 17. Grammar schools usually are secondary/college level.
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To toss my own experience in:
I my callow yoot grammar school, AKA, elementary school or grade school, was K-8. 9-12 was high school. After that, college. Grade school was sorta subdivided into K-6 wherein we had one teacher all day long for each level. 7-8 was called departmental (pronounced dee part men t'l, with equal stress on all syllables except the last).
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In Nassau County (NY) fifty years ago elementary/grammar school was K-6, and then there was Junior High School 7-9 and High School 10-12. New York City, where I had been up to a few years before, divided it K-6, 7-8, 9-12.
May one ask what musings prompted you to ask?!
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Traditionally Elementary School in the Neds. started at age 6 and lasts up to age 12.
Nowadays Kindergarten and Elementary School merged and under the name of Basis School runs from age 4 to age 12.
After that I'd rather not tell how a good functioning education system can be destroyed by non educators with loads of great idea's about how to ruin someone elses' expertise.
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Faldage, right now in your state (being as it is mine, also) "grammar school" = old coot talkin'... "Primary" is still used in some areas, kindergarten through 2nd grade, then "Elementary", 3 - 5 or 6. If "Primary" is not used, it's just "Elementary" k - 5 (or 6). "Junior High" is definitely dead and buried. "Middle School" starts at either 6 or 7, depending on the district, and High School at 9 or 10, depending. In my district, MS is 6-8 and HS is 9-12. They do a great job transitioning the kids in MS by grouping them in "teams" and having just three teachers for the academic subjects, so they start changing classes, but only to 3 different rooms, and have a "home room" with one of the three teachers. This makes it easier on them than having them jump straight into changing teachers and classes every "set" (heaven knows we can't call them "periods" because that's used for unmentionable female stuff... sheesh!) By the time they head to the "big house", they are prepared for the typical HS day. Not all districts do this well, and it's a hard time of life to be making things difficult! :0)
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I suppose I should have mentioned that in my callow yoot I lived in Chicago. My grammar school experience should not be equated with NYS.
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Hi everybody!I present my self; I am a moroccan student (from morocco; a contry situated in north Africa).I've just inscribe my self in Wordsmith in order to improve my English with taking part in this forum.I really hope that it would be a successful gait also I wish you'll help me to reach this purpose.
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Welcome aboard, Jawad. From where (e.g. what city) are you writing? Are you a formal student of English? In school? How did you find this board? Hope you enjoy it.
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