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Awesome!


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Oh, wow... I could've sworn that I had put up at least one post since my last one -- as contradictory as that sounds. Welp, let me fix that then >_<
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Sooo... college is kind of the craziest thing in the world right now.

I'll be virtually nonexistent until Tuesday.

Just a heads-up.
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The same goes for me with eight grade. I'll be trying to get a post up sometime in the next day or so. Sorry for the wait. I've had a lot of projects due this week for classes and such.
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The same goes for me with eight grade. I'll be trying to get a post up sometime in the next day or so. Sorry for the wait. I've had a lot of projects due this week for classes and such.


wait, you're a middle-schooler?
i'm sure you've said it but i didn't remember that
maybe cause i'm a high-schooler and most of my RP friends are in college
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wait, you're a middle-schooler?i'm sure you've said it but i didn't remember thatmaybe cause i'm a high-schooler and most of my RP friends are in college


Yep I'm a middle schooler. I think I have said it. May've been a while.
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Yep I'm a middle schooler. I think I have said it. May've been a while.


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Me no understand
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Me no understand


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Me no understand


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It's ok. I posted that at 12:15 in the morning when I was in a really weird mood.

I'm not even entirely sure what I was going for, there. That meme's supposed to be in reference to nostalgia. o.o
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Oh I understand that, I just don't understand grades.....or what stage middle school is....
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Oh I understand that, I just don't understand grades.....or what stage middle school is....


"Middle school" = 7-8th grade (or sometimes 6-8th grade, depending on where you live).

"High school" = 9-12th grade.

I can also (sort of) explain Japanese school level divisions if anyone needs me to, since that tends to confuse a lot of anime-viewers and the like. Just, you know, while I'm here.
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Yeah I have no idea what way grades go.....I wanna say first grade is when your four.....
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Yeah I have no idea what way grades go.....I wanna say first grade is when your four.....


Generally, first grade is when you're 6. 12th grade is when you're 18, for most.
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Generally, first grade is when you're 6. 12th grade is when you're 18, for most.


I'm assuming that this is not counting kindergarten then? Because where I'm from, children first go to school when they're four or five, depending on their day of birth.
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I'm assuming that this is not counting kindergarten then? Because where I'm from, children first go to school when they're four or five, depending on their day of birth.


Well yeah. Kids typically enter kindergarten at 4 or 5, but that's kindergarten. They don't enter what we call "first grade" until after kindergarten.

As an American, I will acknowledge the fact that there are a lot of things about this country that don't make any sense. I don't blame you guys for getting confused. I remember spending a lot of time as a kid wondering why "first grade" was labeled as such when it didn't actually come first.
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I started going to school when I was three! Preschool fun times! Yea just bring up America's education system. Freaking common core crap.
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I started going to school when I was three! Preschool fun times! Yea just bring up America's education system. Freaking common core crap.


See, I wasn't even gonna mention that.

I was just talking about tiny weird things that America does, like the way the names for the grade level systems don't make a ton of sense, and neither does our measurement system. ...Nor does the language we speak. But, at least we're not alone in that regard.

...But still English is like the worst language you guys.
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See, I wasn't even gonna mention that.I was just talking about tiny weird things that America does, like the way the names for the grade level systems don't make a ton of sense, and neither does our measurement system. ...Nor does the language we speak. But, at least we're not alone in that regard. ...But still English is like the worst language you guys.


Why do you think I'm teaching myself Japanese and Greek?
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Kaga said I can also (sort of) explain Japanese school level divisions if anyone needs me to, since that tends to confuse a lot of anime-viewers and the like. Just, you know, while I'm here.


My understanding of it is that they also have your middle school and high school.
But High School ends at Grade 10 or 11 depending on where in Japan you live (I believe England in similliar there, but they can also end in Grade 12 in some (but few) areas. Plus, both countries have mandatory uniforms... >.<).
And students also take tests among joining to the school, being divided into classes depending on academic performance.

How close was I?

Kaga said I remember spending a lot of time as a kid wondering why "first grade" was labeled as such when it didn't actually come first.


As a Canadian, my understanding was that it's because Kidnergarten was/is largely seen as daycare/childcare, not a place for children to really sit down and do academic work. All the academic stuff wouldn't really start until Grade 1, hence the name difference.

Yet, oddly enough professions like ECE (Early Childhood Education) will claim that it's already too academically focused, and needs to adopt a more 'play to learn' approach.
To which I assume Kindergarten varies a ton depending on the school and the teacher, because I remember far more playing and being silly in it than I do school work as a kid.
And today when I'm in a Kindergarten room as a placement student they really do spend the whole day playing, with minimal time set aside of sitting children done and directly teaching them something in an academic manner.

Kaga said See, I wasn't even gonna mention that.


I do admit, as a Canadian the whole common core thing exploding in America has confused me as well.
I don't even know what the issue is, or what common core is really trying to do.

I assume by the name of common core that it's trying to reinforce a "One size fits all" approach? But I've seen nothing either confirming or dismissing that so far.
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