jessi82
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Post by jessi82 on Oct 14, 2020 22:23:00 GMT -5
So when reading the BSC or other books set in North America I have noticed that 6th graders can be middle school or elementary school. It also doesn't appear to be consistent. I live in Australia and sixth grade is always primary/elementary. So I am wondering how do they determine if 6th grade is elementary or middle school. Also how does it work if you are in sixth grade and change schools
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TheTig
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Post by TheTig on Oct 14, 2020 23:13:41 GMT -5
Hi! Most of the time in America sixth grade will be middle school, unless your school district only has an elementary school and a high school, in which case 6th grade is elementary. In my town until the middle school was built in the early 2000s, kindergarten-6th was elementary while 7th-12th was high school. With the middle school, now it's kindergarten-5th elementary, 6th-8th middle(Or junior high), and 9th-12th high school. I guess if you were to change schools it would just depend on that town's school district. Hope this helped!
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Oct 15, 2020 1:02:45 GMT -5
It really depends on the school district primarily. My school district was a bit all over the place because they were doing some restructuring when the boundaries were being redrawn. Eventually it ended with being 6-8 again after changing it once.
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jessi82
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Post by jessi82 on Oct 15, 2020 20:25:13 GMT -5
Thanks so if a sixth grader in middle school moved to a place that had no middle school do they have to go back to elementary because it would be quite a change and would not sit well with 11 or 12 year olds
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TheTig
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Post by TheTig on Oct 15, 2020 21:43:56 GMT -5
Yes! I agree that most kids that age would *not* be happy about such a move. Some of my cousins were in 8th grade at the time our middle school was built. They had been in high school and were moved out of it and into the middle school, only to return to the high school the next year. One town over from us still only has an elementary school and a high school, so if a 6th grader were to move only like fifteen minutes away, they would be moved from middle school to elementary.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 16, 2020 9:29:58 GMT -5
I went to a K-6 school. I was kind of a baby and probably wouldn't have liked going to school with teenagers when I was 11. My district was K-6 elementary, 7-9 jr high, and 10-12 high school. It was kinda odd because we were high school freshmen but weren't at the high school. The high school wasn't large enough to hold 4 grades. It has since gone through building additions and has moved to K-5, 6-8, and 9-12 like most traditional districts. The district that I live in now is even stranger with K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 schools.
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TheTig
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Post by TheTig on Oct 16, 2020 11:24:26 GMT -5
Wow, that's a lot of schools, Sparklymouse! I could see where breaking up the grades like that would work well, though, since similar ages would be with each other.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Oct 16, 2020 15:16:05 GMT -5
I was annoyed when my school started to get moved around it was originally k-5 but they built a new building which lead to this: 5&6 being in one school, then 7&8 in another, then 9-12. By the time they moved back to what it was originally I had already graduated.
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cnj
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Post by cnj on Nov 2, 2020 2:44:12 GMT -5
I think of sixth grade as middle school more than primary school.
Generally sixth through eighth graders are pre-teenagers.
Ninth grade is where true high school and adolescence begins.
I remember what a big year ninth grade was for me, especially being a freshman.
I see the same thing for the BSC in their ninth grade year...true puberty, first sexual feelings and maybe even encounters and acne.
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