New member introduction

[Joe Bento]

Wouldn't the GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) and our
American high-school diploma be roughly equivalent?  (Though children
attend primary school in the US, it is rare to hear of middle and
high-school referred to as "secondary".)

I am not familiar with the quality of British education, but a US
high-school diploma certainly doesn't mean much when searching for a
quality job.

Joe

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> Charlies Jones <catwoman1683> wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/27593 :
> 
> << For those curious, my name is Charlie, I'm 21, female and from
> Kent, England. (snip) I love animals, cats being my favourite, and
> come September I'll be studying for my English GCSE in night classes
> at the local college. >>
> 
> Welcome, Charlie. GCSEs are not *exactly* OT, because they are the
> Muggle version of OWLs, but understood by no American reader (not even
> me).
> 
> You were not born in 1683, unless you're a time-traveller. That would
> have been James II, right?