American Schools Re: June's OT Board Dictionary Launched

[Jen Reese]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "KathyK" <zanelupin at y...> 
wrote:
> KathyK adds:
> This <Middle School> can also been referred to as junior high 
school, although I 
> think that term is on its way out.  But I definitely went to Dodd 
> Jr. High Scool rather than Dodd Middle School as the sign now 
> proclaims.  


Me too! I went to San Jacinto Junior High but you never hear that 
anymore; 'Middle School' is definitely preferred.

In an interesting twist, our 9th grade was held in an entirely 
separate school, only for 9th grade--did anyone else have that? The 
two 9th-grade schools were called Midland Freshman High School & Lee 
Freshman High Schools to distinguish them from the high schools of 
the same name.

My theory now is that football (not soccer) is *very* competitive in 
my hometown, and instead of building a third high school that would 
dilute the talent pool, they elected to convert two old schools into 
these Freshman schools. Don't know if it's true, but believe me it 
*could* be true, which is bad enough ;). 

Jen